Exhibit (a)(1)(v)
Offer to Purchase
by
PHH Corporation
for an Aggregate Purchase Price of
up to $266 Million of Shares of its Common Stock
THE OFFER, PRORATION PERIOD AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS WILL EXPIRE AT 11:59 P.M., NEW YORK CITY TIME, ON SEPTEMBER 8, 2017, UNLESS THE OFFER IS EXTENDED OR WITHDRAWN (SUCH DATE, AS IT MAY BE EXTENDED, THE "EXPIRATION DATE").
August 11, 2017
To Brokers, Dealers, Commercial Banks,
Trust Companies and Other Nominees:
We have been appointed by PHH Corporation, a Maryland corporation ("PHH" or the "Company"), to act as the Dealer Manager in connection with the Company's offer to purchase shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Shares") for an aggregate purchase price of up to $266 million in cash pursuant to (i) auction tenders at prices specified by the tendering stockholders of not greater than $14.25 per Share nor less than $13.45 per Share ("Auction Tenders"), or (ii) purchase price tenders pursuant to which stockholders indicate they are willing to sell their Shares to the Company at the Purchase Price determined in the Offer ("Purchase Price Tenders"), in either case, net to the seller in cash, less any applicable withholding taxes and without interest, upon the terms and subject to the conditions described in the Offer to Purchase, the Letter of Transmittal and the other documents that constitute part of the Offer. Capitalized terms used in this letter but not defined herein have the meanings given in the enclosed Offer to Purchase. Please furnish copies of the enclosed materials to those of your clients for whom you hold Shares registered in your name or in the name of your nominee.
Promptly after the Expiration Date, the Company will, upon the terms and subject to the conditions of the Offer, determine the Purchase Price, which will not be greater than $14.25 per Share nor less than $13.45 per Share, that the Company will pay for Shares properly tendered in the Offer and not properly withdrawn, taking into account the number of Shares tendered pursuant to Auction Tenders and Purchase Price Tenders and the prices specified by stockholders tendering Shares pursuant to Auction Tenders. The Purchase Price will be the lowest price per Share of not more than $14.25 per Share and not less than $13.45 per Share at which Shares have been tendered or have been deemed to be tendered in the Offer that will enable the Company to purchase the maximum number of Shares properly tendered in the Offer and not properly withdrawn having an aggregate purchase price not exceeding $266 million. Shares tendered pursuant to Purchase Price Tenders will be deemed to have been tendered at a price of $13.45 per Share (which is the minimum price per Share under the Offer) for purposes of determining the Purchase Price.
Subject to the conditions of the Offer, only Shares properly tendered, or deemed to be tendered, at prices at or below the Purchase Price and not properly withdrawn will be eligible for purchase in the Offer.. Shares tendered but not purchased pursuant to the Offer will be returned to the tendering stockholders promptly following the Expiration Date.
All Shares purchased in the Offer will be purchased at the Purchase Price regardless of whether they were tendered at a lower price than the Purchase Price. However, because of the "odd lot" priority, proration and conditional tender provisions described in the Offer to Purchase, all of the Shares tendered at or below the Purchase Price may not be purchased if Shares are properly tendered and not properly withdrawn at or below the Purchase Price having an aggregate purchase price greater than $266 million. In accordance with the rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC"), the Company may, without amending or extending the Offer, increase the amount of Shares accepted for payment in the Offer by no more than 2% of the number of our issued and outstanding Shares, thereby increasing the aggregate purchase price of Shares to be purchased in the Offer. See Sections 1 and 3 of the Offer to Purchase.
Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of the Offer, if the number of Shares properly tendered and not properly withdrawn prior to the Expiration Date would result in an aggregate purchase price of more than $266 million, the Company will proceed as follows: (i) first, the Company will purchase all Shares tendered from any holder of "odd lots" of less than 100 Shares who (A) properly tender all of their Shares at or below the Purchase Price and do not properly withdraw them prior to the Expiration Date (tenders of less than all of the Shares owned by an Odd Lot Holder will not qualify for this preference) and (B) completes the section entitled "Odd Lots" in the Letter of Transmittal or, in the case of a book-entry transfer, an Agent's Message (as such term is defined in the Offer to Purchase), and, if applicable, in the Notice of Guaranteed Delivery; (ii) second, subject to the conditional tender provisions described in Section 6 of the Offer to Purchase, the Company will purchase Shares from all stockholders who properly tendered and did not properly withdraw prior to the Expiration Date at or below the Purchase Price, on a pro rata basis, with appropriate adjustments to avoid the purchases of fractional Shares (except for stockholders who tendered Shares conditionally for which the condition was not satisfied), until the Company has purchased Shares resulting in an aggregate purchase price of $266 million; and (iii) third, only if necessary to permit the Company to purchase Shares resulting in an aggregate purchase price of $266 million, the Company will purchase Shares from holders who properly tender Shares and do not properly withdraw them prior to the Expiration Date at or below the Purchase Price conditionally (for which the condition was not initially satisfied) by random lot, to the extent feasible. To be eligible for purchase by random lot, stockholders whose Shares are conditionally tendered must have properly tendered and not properly withdrawn all of their Shares prior to the Expiration Date. See Sections 1, 3, 4 and 6 of the Offer to Purchase.
For your information, and for forwarding to those of your clients for whom you hold Shares registered in your name or in the name of your nominee, we are enclosing the following documents:
1. Offer to Purchase, dated August 11, 2017;
2. Letter of Transmittal, for your use in accepting the Offer and tendering Shares of, and for the information of, your clients including an IRS Form W-9 (facsimile copies of the Letter of Transmittal, with manual signatures, may be used to tender Shares);
3. Letter to Clients, for you to send to your clients for whose accounts you hold Shares registered in your name or in the name of a nominee, with an Instruction Form provided for obtaining such client's instructions with regard to the Offer; and
4. Notice of Guaranteed Delivery with respect to Shares, to be used to accept the Offer if (i) certificates representing your clients' Share certificates are not immediately available or cannot be delivered to you to be further delivered to the Depositary prior to the Expiration Date, (ii) the procedures for book-entry transfer cannot be completed on a timely basis, or (iii) if time will not permit all required documents, including a properly completed and duly executed Letter of Transmittal, to reach the Depositary prior to the Expiration Date.
The conditions of the Offer are described in Section 7 of the Offer to Purchase.
Your prompt action is requested. We urge you to contact your clients as promptly as possible. Please note that the Offer, proration period and withdrawal rights will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on September 8, 2017, unless the Offer is extended or withdrawn. Under no circumstances will the Company pay interest on the Purchase Price (as such term is defined in the Offer to Purchase), even if there is any delay in making payment.
For Shares to be tendered properly pursuant to the Offer:
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- the certificates for such Shares (or confirmation of receipt of such Shares pursuant to the procedure for book-entry transfer set forth below), together with a properly completed and duly
executed Letter of Transmittal (or a manually signed facsimile of the Letter of Transmittal), including any required signature guarantees, or an "Agent's Message" in the case of a book-entry transfer, and any other documents required by the Letter of Transmittal, must be received prior to the Expiration Date by the Depositary at its address set forth on the back cover of the Offer to Purchase; or
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- the tendering stockholder must deliver a properly completed notice of guaranteed delivery prior to the Expiration Date and comply with the guaranteed delivery procedure set forth in the Offer to Purchase.
While the Company's Board of Directors has authorized the Offer, it has not made and is not making, and none of the Company, the Company's affiliates or subsidiaries, the Dealer Manager, the Information Agent or the Depositary has made, or is making, any recommendation to your clients as to whether they should tender or refrain from tendering their Shares or as to price or prices at which they may choose to tender their Shares. Your clients must make their own decisions as to whether to tender their Shares and, if so, how many Shares to tender and, if your clients are making an Auction Tender, the price or prices at which their Shares should be tendered. Before taking any action with respect to the Offer, your clients should read carefully the information in, or incorporated by reference in, the Offer to Purchase and in the related Letter of Transmittal, including the purposes and effects of the Offer. See Section 2 of the Offer to Purchase. Your clients are urged to discuss their decisions with their own tax advisors, financial advisors and/or brokers.
The Company will not pay any fees or commissions to brokers, dealers or other persons (other than fees to the Dealer Manager, the Information Agent and the Depositary, as described in the Offer to Purchase) for soliciting tenders of Shares pursuant to the Offer. However, the Company will, on request, reimburse you for customary mailing and handling expenses incurred by you in forwarding copies of the enclosed Offer and related materials to your clients. The Company will pay or cause to be paid all stock transfer taxes or stamp duties, if any, on its purchase of Shares pursuant to the Offer, except as otherwise provided in the Offer to Purchase (see Section 5 of the Offer to Purchase).
Questions and requests for assistance may be directed to the Dealer Manager or to the Information Agent, and requests for additional copies of the enclosed materials may be directed to the Information Agent, at the telephone numbers and addresses listed below.
The Dealer Manager for the Offer is:
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Eleven Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10010
(800) 318-8219
(Call Toll-Free)
The Information Agent for the Offer is:
105 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10016
(212) 929-5500 (Call Collect)
or
Call Toll-Free (800) 322-2885
Email: tenderoffer@mackenziepartners.com
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Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC |
NOTHING CONTAINED IN THIS LETTER OR IN THE ENCLOSED DOCUMENTS SHALL RENDER YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON THE AGENT OF THE COMPANY, THE DEALER MANAGER, THE DEPOSITARY, THE INFORMATION AGENT OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ANY OF THEM OR AUTHORIZE YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON TO GIVE ANY INFORMATION OR USE ANY DOCUMENT OR MAKE ANY STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF ANY OF THEM WITH RESPECT TO THE OFFER OTHER THAN THE ENCLOSED DOCUMENTS AND THE STATEMENTS CONTAINED THEREIN.
