contained in the Merger Agreement and the compliance by each party with the covenants contained in the Merger Agreement, (viii) the absence of a material adverse effect with respect to each of Menlo and Foamix, (ix) at least fifty days having elapsed after the filing of the merger proposal with the Israeli Registrar of Companies and expiration of thethirty-day waiting period following the approval of the Merger by Foamix shareholders as referenced in (ii) above and (x) a letter from the Israel Securities Authority (“ISA”) will have been received exempting Menlo from publishing a prospectus under Israeli law in respect of the Merger Consideration (or Menlo will have received a permit from the ISA for a registration statement with respect to the dual listing of the shares of Menlo Common stock at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and an exemption from the requirement to publish a prospectus under Israeli law in respect of the Merger Consideration) or Menlo will publish a prospectus under Israeli law in respect of the Merger Consideration. The parties expect the Merger to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2020 or early in the second quarter of 2020.
Certain Other Terms of the Merger Agreement
The Merger Agreement includes certain representations, warranties and covenants, including, among other things, covenants by Menlo and Foamix to conduct their businesses in the ordinary course during the period between the execution of the Merger Agreement and consummation of the Merger and to refrain from taking certain actions specified in the Merger Agreement.
Neither Menlo nor Foamix is permitted to solicit, initiate or knowingly encourage or, or take any other action designed to, or which is reasonably expected to, facilitate, any competing transaction proposals from third parties or to engage in discussions or negotiations with third parties regarding any competing transaction proposals, unless its board determined in good faith that such counterparty is capable of making a takeover proposal that is reasonably expected to lead to a superior proposal, and the failure to take action would be inconsistent with the board’s fiduciary duties as determined by applicable law. Each party’s board of directors may change its recommendation to its stockholders in response to a superior proposal or an intervening event if the board of directors determines in good faith that the failure to take such action would constitute a breach of the directors’ fiduciary duties under applicable law.
The Merger Agreement contains specified termination rights for Menlo and Foamix, including a mutual termination right in the event that the Merger is not consummated by June 30, 2020. Upon termination of the Merger Agreement under certain specified circumstances, Foamix or Menlo, as applicable, may be required to pay the other party a termination fee of $3,700,000 including following a change of recommendation with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement by Foamix or Menlo’s board of directors, as applicable, or if Foamix or Menlo, as applicable, terminates the Merger Agreement to enter into a definitive agreement with a third party with respect to a superior proposal, as set forth in, and subject to the conditions of, the Merger Agreement. Under certain additional circumstances described in the Merger Agreement, Foamix or Menlo, as applicable, must also pay such termination fee if the Merger Agreement is terminated in certain specified circumstances after an alternative acquisition proposal to the Merger has been publicly announced, and, within twelve months following such termination, Foamix or Menlo enters into a definitive agreement with respect to a business combination transaction of the type described in the relevant provisions of the Merger Agreement, or such a transaction is consummated.
The foregoing summary of the Merger Agreement does not purport to be a complete description and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Merger Agreement, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
The Merger Agreement has been attached as an exhibit to this report to provide investors and security holders with information regarding its terms. It is not intended to provide any other factual information about Menlo or Foamix or to modify or supplement any factual disclosures about Menlo or Foamix in its public reports filed with the SEC. The Merger Agreement includes representations, warranties and covenants of Menlo and Foamix made solely for the purposes of the Merger Agreement and which may be subject to important qualifications and limitations agreed to by Menlo and Foamix in connection with the negotiated terms of the Merger Agreement. Moreover, some of those representations and warranties may not be accurate or complete as of any specified date, may be subject to