Following the Arrangement, the Issuer will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent. In addition, Parent will cause the Shares to be delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Global Select Market and to be deregistered under the Act.
Except as set forth in this statement and in connection with the Arrangement described above, the Reporting Persons do not have any plan or proposals that relate to or would result in any of the transactions described in Item 4 of this Schedule 13D.
The foregoing descriptions of the Arrangement Agreement and the Support and Voting Agreements, and the respective transactions contemplated thereby, do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to such agreements. A copy of the Arrangement Agreement, listed as Exhibit 99.1 hereto, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to the Issuer’s Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on June 12, 2023. A copy of the Support and Voting Agreements, listed as Exhibits 99.2 to 99.16 hereto, are incorporated by reference to Exhibits 99.3 to 99.17 to the Issuer’s Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on June 12, 2023.
Item 5. | INTEREST IN SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER |
(a)-(b) The information relating to the beneficial ownership of the Shares by each of the Reporting Persons set forth in Rows 7 through 13 on each of the cover pages hereto is incorporated by reference herein and is as of the date hereof. Such information is based on 11,717,616 Shares issued and outstanding as of May 31, 2023 (based on the representation by the Issuer in the Arrangement Agreement) plus an additional 1,100,972 Shares issuable in respect of Options beneficially owned by the Securityholders and subject to the Support and Voting Agreement.
As a result of the Consent Right contained in the Support and Voting Agreements, (i) the Reporting Persons may be deemed to have the power to vote up to 5,129,673 Covered Shares as set forth in Item 4 above, and thus, the Reporting Persons may be deemed to be the beneficial owners of 5,129,673 Covered Shares.
Other than those Shares that may be deemed to be beneficially owned in connection with the Consent Right contained in the Support and Voting Agreements, the Reporting Persons have not acquired and, for the purposes of Rule 13d-4 promulgated under the Act, do not beneficially own any Shares.
The Reporting Persons are not entitled to any rights as stockholders of the Issuer as to the Covered Shares subject to the Support and Voting Agreements, except as otherwise expressly provided in the Support and Voting Agreements. This Schedule 13D shall not be construed as an admission by the Reporting Persons that the Reporting Persons are, for the purposes of Section 13(d) of the Act, the beneficial owners of any Covered Shares subject to the Support and Voting Agreements (whether pursuant to the Consent Right or otherwise).
(c) Except pursuant to the Arrangement Agreement and the Support and Voting Agreements described above, to the knowledge of the Reporting Persons, no transactions in the class of securities reported have been effected during the past 60 days by any person named in Schedule A or Item 5(a).
(d) To the knowledge of the Reporting Persons, no person, other than the applicable Securityholder under the applicable Support and Voting Agreement, has the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, the securities of the Issuer reported herein.
(e) Inapplicable.
Item 6. | CONTRACTS, ARRANGEMENTS, UNDERSTANDINGS OR RELATIONSHIPS WITH RESPECT TO SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER |
Except for the Arrangement Agreement and the Support and Voting Agreements described above, which are incorporated into this Item 6 by reference, to the knowledge of the Reporting Persons, there are no contracts, arrangements, understandings or relationships (legal or otherwise), including, but not limited to, transfer or voting of any of the Shares, finder’s fees, joint ventures, loan or option arrangements, puts or calls, guarantees of profits, division of profits or loss, or the giving or withholding of proxies, among the persons named in Item 2 or between such persons and any other person, with respect to any securities of Issuer, including any securities pledged or otherwise subject to a contingency the occurrence of which would give another person voting power or investment power over such securities.