Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Agreement and Plan of Merger
On September 15, 2021, Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, a Canadian corporation (the “Corporation”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Kansas City Southern, a Delaware corporation (“Kansas City Southern”), Cygnus Merger Sub 1 Corporation, a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation (“Surviving Merger Sub”) and Cygnus Merger Sub 2 Corporation, a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Surviving Merger Sub (“First Merger Sub”).
Immediately prior to execution of the Merger Agreement, Kansas City Southern terminated the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 21, 2021 (the “CN Agreement”), by and among Canadian National Railway Company (“CN”), Brooklyn Merger Sub, Inc. and Kansas City Southern. In connection with such termination, Kansas City Southern paid or will pay the Company Termination Fee and the CP Termination Fee Refund (each as defined in the CN Agreement) to CN and Brooklyn US Holding, Inc., respectively, pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the CN Agreement. The Corporation has agreed to remit, or cause Canadian Pacific Railway Company (“CPRC”), on behalf of and at the direction of the Corporation, to remit to Kansas City Southern $700,000,000 in connection with Kansas City Southern’s payment of the Company Termination Fee (as defined in the CN Agreement) to CN. In addition, the Corporation has agreed to remit to Kansas City Southern $700,000,000 in connection with Kansas City Southern’s payment of the CP Termination Fee Refund (as defined in the CN Agreement) to Brooklyn US Holding, Inc., such remittance constituting a refund and return by the Corporation of the “Company Termination Fee” received by the Corporation from Kansas City Southern on the termination of the merger agreement by and among the Corporation, Kansas City Southern, Surviving Merger Sub and First Merger Sub dated March 21, 2021.
The Merger Agreement provides, among other things, that subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth therein (1) First Merger Sub will merge with and into the Kansas City Southern (the “First Merger”), with Kansas City Southern surviving the First Merger as a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Surviving Merger Sub, and (2) immediately following the effective time of the First Merger (the “Effective Time”), Kansas City Southern will merge with and into Surviving Merger Sub (the “Second Merger” and, together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”), with Surviving Merger Sub surviving the Second Merger as a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation.
Immediately following the Second Merger and certain internal transactions, all of the stock of Surviving Merger Sub, as successor to Kansas City Southern, will be deposited into a voting trust subject to a voting trust agreement (the “Voting Trust Transaction”), pending final control approval by the Surface Transportation Board (the “STB”).
Merger Consideration
Under the Merger Agreement, at the Effective Time, each share of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Kansas City Southern that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than certain excluded shares as described in the Merger Agreement) will be converted into the right to receive (1) 2.884 common shares of the Corporation and (2) $90 in cash, without interest (collectively, the “Merger Consideration”), and each share of preferred stock, par value $25 per share, that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than certain excluded shares as described in the Merger Agreement) will be converted into the right to receive $37.50 in cash, without interest.
Conditions to the Mergers
The respective obligations of Kansas City Southern and the Corporation to consummate the Mergers are subject to the satisfaction or waiver of a number of customary conditions, including: (1) the adoption of the Merger Agreement by Kansas City Southern’s stockholders; (2) approval of the issuance of the Corporation’s common shares in the First Merger by the Corporation’s shareholders; (3) the Corporation’s registration statement on Form F-4 having been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission; (4) the absence of any injunction or similar order prohibiting the consummation of the Mergers or the Voting Trust Transaction; (5) approval by the Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica (the Mexican Antitrust Commission) and the Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (the Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute) of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (collectively, the “Mexican Regulatory Approvals”); (6) the Corporation’s common shares issuable in the First Merger having been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange; (7) accuracy of the other party’s representations and warranties, subject to certain materiality standards set forth in the Merger Agreement; (8) compliance by the other party in all material respects with such other party’s obligations under the Merger Agreement; and (9) with respect to the Corporation, the absence of a Company Material Adverse Effect, and with respect to Kansas City Southern, the absence of a Parent Material Effect (as such terms are defined in the Merger Agreement).
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