This Amendment No. 2 (“Amendment No. 2”) amends and supplements the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule14D-9 filed by Papa Murphy’s Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, 2019 (as amended and supplemented from time to time, and including the documents annexed thereto or incorporated therein the “Schedule14D-9”). The Schedule14D-9 relates to the tender offer by MTY Columbia Merger Sub, Inc. (“Merger Sub”), a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of MTY Franchising USA, Inc. (“Parent”), a Delaware corporation, to purchase all of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (each such share, a “Share,” and collectively, the “Shares”) at a purchase price equal to $6.45 per Share (the “Offer Price”), net to the seller in cash, without interest and less any applicable taxes required to be withheld, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, dated April 25, 2019, and in the related Letter of Transmittal, in each case, as may be amended or supplemented from time to time.
Except as otherwise set forth below, the information set forth in the Schedule14D-9 remains unchanged and is incorporated herein by reference as relevant to items in this Amendment No. 2. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Schedule14D-9.
Explanatory Note:
As described below in Item 8 of the Schedule14D-9 under the heading “Litigation Related to the Transactions”, and as previously disclosed on May 6, 2019, several purported stockholders have filed putative class action lawsuits challenging, among other things, the adequacy of the disclosures made in connection with the Transactions. The Company and the other defendants in these lawsuits vigorously deny that they have committed any violation of law or engaged in any of the wrongful acts that were or could have been alleged in the lawsuits, and expressly maintain that they diligently and scrupulously complied with their fiduciary and other legal duties. The Company and the other defendants in these lawsuits deny that any further disclosure is required to supplement the Schedule14D-9 under any applicable rule, statute, regulation or law. However, solely to avoid the risk that a court may issue an injunction in connection with these lawsuits, which may delay or otherwise adversely affect the completion of the Transactions, the Company is providing certain additional disclosures that are supplemental to those contained in the Schedule14D-9. None of the defendants has admitted wrongdoing of any kind, including but not limited to inadequacies in any disclosure, the materiality of any disclosure that the plaintiffs contend should have been made, or any violation of any federal or state law. Nothing in this document shall be deemed an admission of the legal necessity for, or materiality under any applicable laws of, any of the additional disclosures set forth herein. This supplemental information should be read in conjunction with the Schedule14D-9, which we urge you to read in its entirety. The Company’s additional disclosures are as follows:
Item 3. Past Contacts, Transactions, Negotiations and Agreements.
(a) Item 3 of the Schedule14D-9 is hereby amended and supplemented by adding the following sentence as the last sentence to the first paragraph under the heading “Arrangements between the Company and its Executive Officers, Directors and Affiliates—Effect of the Merger on Company Shares and Equity-Based Incentive Awards—Shares” on page 5 of the Schedule14D-9:
“For a description of the beneficial ownership of Company’s executive officers and directors, please refer to “Item 12—Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters— Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” in Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form10-K, filed with the SEC on April 30, 2019.”
(b) Item 3 of the Schedule14D-9 is hereby amended and supplemented by adding the following paragraph as the eighth paragraph under the heading “Arrangements between the Company and its Executive Officers, Directors and Affiliates—Change of Control Agreements” on page 7 of the Schedule14D-9:
“MTY, on behalf of Parent and Merger Sub, during the negotiation and bid submission process discussed under Item 4 of the Schedule14D-9 under the heading “Background of the Offer; Reasons for the Recommendation of the Board—Background of the Offer” after it provided its final price of $6.45 per share, indicated to members of the Company’s management its general desire to retain the Company’s executive officers. There are no agreements between Parent, Merger Sub, MTY or their respective affiliates and any executive officers or directors of the Company regarding the retention of any Company executive officers or directors or the terms under which any officers or directors would be retained.
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