For your information and for forwarding to 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. The Offer to Purchase;
2. The Letter of Transmittal for your use in accepting the Offer and tendering Shares and for the information of your clients, together with the included Internal Revenue Service Form W-9;
3. A Notice of Guaranteed Delivery to be used to accept the Offer if Shares and all other required documents cannot be delivered to Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (the “Depositary”) by the expiration of the Offer or if the procedure for book-entry transfer cannot be completed by the expiration of the Offer (the “Notice of Guaranteed Delivery”);
4. A form of letter which may be sent to your clients for whose accounts you hold Shares registered in your name or in the name of your nominee, with space provided for obtaining such clients’ instructions with regard to the Offer; and
5. The Company’s Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9, dated October 18, 2022.
We urge you to contact your clients as promptly as possible. Please note that the Offer and withdrawal rights will expire at one minute following 11:59 p.m. (12:00 midnight), New York City time, on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, unless the Offer is extended or earlier terminated. If at the otherwise scheduled Offer Expiration Time, the Minimum Tender Condition is not satisfied but all of the other Offer Conditions (as defined in the Offer to Purchase) (other than those Offer Conditions that by their terms are to be satisfied at the consummation of the Offer, but subject to such Offer Conditions being capable of being satisfied) have been satisfied or waived, at the written request of the Company, Purchaser will extend the Offer on one occasion for an additional period specified by the Company of up to ten business days.
The Offer is being made in connection with the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 3, 2022 (as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Parent and Purchaser, pursuant to which, on the same date as the consummation of the Offer and subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions, Purchaser will be merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”), without a vote of the stockholders of the Company to adopt the Merger Agreement and consummate the Merger in accordance with Section 251(h) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (as amended, the “DGCL”), with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation (the “Surviving Corporation”) in the Merger and thereby becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. As a result of the Merger, each Share issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger (the “effective time”) (other than Shares (a) irrevocably accepted for purchase by Purchaser in the Offer, (b) owned by the Company (including as treasury stock) or owned by any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, in each case immediately prior to the effective time (c) owned by Parent or Purchaser or any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent or (d) held by holders who are entitled to demand appraisal rights under Section 262 of the DGCL and have properly exercised and perfected their respective demands for appraisal of such Shares in the time and manner provided in Section 262 of the DGCL and, as of the effective time, have neither effectively withdrawn nor lost their rights to such appraisal and payment under the DGCL) will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive the Offer Price in cash (without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes), which we refer to as the “Merger Consideration.” Shares described in clauses (a), (b) and (c), which, in the case of clauses (b) and (c), will be automatically cancelled and retired and will cease to exists at the effective time and will not be exchangeable for the Merger Consideration. Shares described in clause (d) will entitle their holders only to the rights granted to them under Section 262 of the DGCL. Following the Merger, the Company will cease to be a publicly traded company.
THE COMPANY BOARD, AT A MEETING THEREOF DULY CALLED AND HELD, DULY ADOPTED BY UNANIMOUS VOTE RESOLUTIONS (WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN RESCINDED, MODIFIED OR WITHDRAWN IN ANY WAY) (A) DETERMINING THAT THE MERGER AGREEMENT AND THE TRANSACTIONS, INCLUDING THE OFFER AND THE MERGER, ARE ADVISABLE, FAIR TO, AND IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF, THE COMPANY AND THE COMPANY’S STOCKHOLDERS, (B) APPROVING THE MERGER AGREEMENT AND THE