UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported):December 3, 2010 (December 1, 2010)
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ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC. |
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) |
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Minnesota | 1-12441 | 41-1276891 |
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer
Identification Number) |
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One St. Jude Medical Drive |
St. Paul, Minnesota 55117 |
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code) |
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(651) 756-2000 |
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code) |
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N/A |
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report) |
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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions: |
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o | Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) |
o | Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) |
o | Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b)) |
o | Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c)) |
Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On December 1, 2010, St. Jude Medical, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several Underwriters named in Schedule A thereto, relating to the sale by the Company of $500 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 2.500% Senior Notes due 2016.
Certain underwriters and their affiliates have provided, are currently providing and in the future may continue to provide investment banking, commercial banking and other financial services, including the provision of credit facilities, to the Company in the ordinary course of business for which they have received and will receive customary compensation.
In the ordinary course of business, certain of the underwriters and their respective affiliates may participate in loans and actively trade the Company’s debt and equity securities for their own account or for the account of customers and, accordingly, may at any time hold long or short positions in such securities.
The Underwriting Agreement is filed herewith as Exhibit 1.1. The description of the Underwriting Agreement herein is qualified by reference thereto.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
The agreement included as an exhibit to this report contains representations and warranties by each of the parties thereto. These representations and warranties have been made solely for the benefit of the other party or parties to the agreement and:
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• | should not in all instances be treated as categorical statements of fact, but rather as a way of allocating the risk to one or more of the parties if those statements prove to be inaccurate; |
• | may have been qualified by disclosures that were made to the other party or parties in connection with the negotiation of the applicable agreement, which disclosures are not necessarily reflected in the agreement; |
• | may apply standards of materiality in a way that is different from what may be viewed as material to you or other investors; and |
• | were made only as of the date of the applicable agreement or such other date or dates as may be specified in the agreement and are subject to more recent developments. |
Accordingly, these representations and warranties may not describe the actual state of affairs as of the date they were made or at any other time. The Company acknowledges that, notwithstanding the inclusion of the foregoing general disclaimer, it is responsible for considering whether additional specific disclosures of material information regarding material contractual provisions are required to make the statements in this report not misleading.
Additional information about the Company may be found elsewhere in this report and the Company’s other public filings, which are available without charge through the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
The following exhibit is filed as part of this Current Report on Form 8-K:
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Exhibit Number | | | Description | |
1.1 | | Underwriting Agreement, dated December 1, 2010, among the Company and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several Underwriters named in Schedule A thereto |
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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| ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC. |
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Dated: December 3, 2010 | By: | /s/ Pamela S. Krop |
| | Name: | | Pamela S. Krop |
| | Title: | | Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary |
EXHIBIT INDEX
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Exhibit Number | | | Description | |
1.1 | | Underwriting Agreement, dated December 1, 2010, among the Company and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several Underwriters named in Schedule A thereto |
