regulatory actions, including without limitation those relating to FDA warning notices or letters, government investigations, the outcome of any pending FDA requests, inspections or submissions, or other requirements or standards may delay, limit or prevent new product introductions, affect the production and marketing of existing products or services or otherwise affect STERIS’s performance, results, prospects or value, (j) the potential of international unrest, economic downturn or effects of currencies, tax assessments, tariffs and/or other trade barriers, adjustments or anticipated rates, raw material costs or availability, benefit or retirement plan costs, or other regulatory compliance costs, (k) the possibility of reduced demand, or reductions in the rate of growth in demand, for STERIS’s products and services, (l) the possibility of delays in receipt of orders, order cancellations, or delays in the manufacture or shipment of ordered products or in the provision of services, (m) the possibility that anticipated growth, cost savings, new product acceptance, performance or approvals, or other results may not be achieved, or that transition, labor, competition, timing, execution, regulatory, governmental, or other issues or risks associated with STERIS’s businesses, industry or initiatives including, without limitation, those matters described in STERIS’s10-K for the year ended March 31, 2018 and other securities filings, may adversely impact STERIS’s performance, results, prospects or value, (n) the impact on STERIS and its operations, or tax liabilities, of Brexit or the exit of other member countries from the EU, and the Company’s ability to respond to such impacts, (o) the impact on STERIS and its operations of any legislation, regulations or orders, including but not limited to any new trade or tax legislation, regulations or orders, that may be implemented by the U.S. administration or Congress, or of any responses thereto, (p) the possibility that anticipated financial results or benefits of recent acquisitions, or of STERIS’s restructuring efforts, or of recent divestitures will not be realized or will be other than anticipated, and (q) the effects of contractions in credit availability, as well as the ability of STERIS’s Customers and suppliers to adequately access the credit markets when needed.
Additional Information and Where to Find It
In connection with the issuance of ordinary shares of STERIS Ireland to STERIS shareholders pursuant to the redomiciliation transaction, both companies will file relevant materials with the SEC, including a Registration Statement on FormS-4 that contains a prospectus of STERIS Ireland as well as a proxy statement of STERIS relating to the scheme of arrangement that forms a part of the redomiciliation transaction, which we refer to together as the Joint Proxy and Registration Statement on FormS-4.
INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE JOINT PROXY AND REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORMS-4 AND ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC IN CONNECTION WITH THE REDOMICILIATION TRANSACTION CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY, BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE REDOMICILIATION TRANSACTION, THE PARTIES TO THE REDOMICILIATION TRANSACTION AND THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE REDOMICILIATION TRANSACTION. Those documents, if and when filed, as well as STERIS’s and STERIS Ireland’s other public filings with the SEC may be obtained without charge at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, at STERIS’s website atwww.steris-ir.com or by contacting STERIS Investor Relations at440-392-7245.
Participants in the Solicitation
STERIS, its directors and certain of its executive officers may be considered participants in the solicitation of proxies in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Joint Proxy and Registration Statement on FormS-4. Information about the directors and executive officers of STERIS is set forth in its Annual Report on Form10-K for the year ended March 31, 2018, which was filed with the SEC on May 30, 2018, and its proxy statement for its 2018 annual meeting of shareholders, which was filed with the SEC on June 5, 2018. Other information regarding potential participants in the proxy solicitations and a description of their direct and indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, is contained in the Joint Proxy and Registration Statement on FormS-4.