Exhibit (a)(5)(N)
Crown Laboratories and Revance Amend the A&R Merger Agreement to
Increase Offer Price to $3.65 per Share and Extend Existing Tender Offer
| • | | Increased offer price to $3.65 per share, a $0.55 per share increase |
| • | | Improved offer unanimously approved by Revance Board of Directors |
| • | | Crown to extend tender offer until 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on February 4, 2025 |
| • | | Crown’s offer is the only fully-financed offer currently available to Revance’s stockholders |
| • | | Outside termination date under the A&R Merger Agreement is February 7, 2025 |
January 21, 2025 – JOHNSON CITY & NASHVILLE, Tenn – (Business Wire) — Crown Laboratories, Inc. (“Crown”) and Revance Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: RVNC) (“Revance”), today announced that, on January 17, 2025, they amended their previously announced Amended and Restated Merger Agreement (the “Second Amendment,” together with the Amended and Restated Merger Agreement, dated December 7, 2024, the “A&R Merger Agreement”).
Under the terms of the Second Amendment, which has been unanimously approved by the Revance Board of Directors, Revance’s stockholders will receive $3.65 per share of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (each, a “Share”) in cash, without interest and less any applicable tax withholding, representing $0.55 or 17% per share more than the prior offer price. Crown will extend its existing tender offer for all of Revance’s outstanding Shares until one minute past 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on February 4, 2025.
“We are pleased to have reached this agreement with Crown which increases value for our stockholders while also providing them with deal certainty,” said Mark J. Foley, Chief Executive Officer of Revance. “After a robust process, our Board concluded that Crown’s offer represented the best outcome for our stockholders. Crown’s offer is the only fully-financed offer currently available to Revance’s stockholders, and we recommend they tender their shares in support of the transaction.”
“Our improved and fully-financed offer provides a meaningful increase in the consideration paid to Revance’s stockholders, and we are pleased that the Revance Board of Directors has unanimously endorsed it,” said Jeff Bedard, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Crown. “We look forward to closing the transaction in short order so we can bring the companies together and continue working on our important mission.”
Transaction and Tender Offer Details
The Crown transaction, which has been unanimously recommended by Revance’s Board of Directors, is the only fully-financed offer that Revance has received since the parties initially entered into the original merger agreement on August 11, 2024, and in the more than six weeks since the parties entered into the Amended and Restated Merger Agreement on December 7, 2024.
Crown’s tender offer, which was previously scheduled to expire one minute past 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on January 28, 2025, has been extended until one minute past 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on February 4, 2025, unless the tender offer is further extended or earlier terminated. Subject to customary closing conditions, including the tender of more than 50% of the Shares into the tender offer, the transaction is expected to close by February 6, 2025.