UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 31, 2016
MYRIAD GENETICS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 0-26642 | 87-0494517 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
320 Wakara Way
Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (801) 584-3600
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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| ITEM 2.01 | Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets |
On August 31, 2016, Myriad Genetics, Inc. (“Myriad”) completed its acquisition of Assurex Health, Inc. (“Assurex”), in accordance with the terms of the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended, the “Merger Agreement”), dated August 3, 2016, by and among Myriad, Myriad Merger Sub, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Subsidiary”), Assurex, and Fortis Advisors LLC, as the representative of the securityholders of Assurex. Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, Merger Subsidiary was merged with and into Assurex, with Assurex continuing as the surviving corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Myriad (the “Merger”).
| ITEM 2.03 | Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation of a Registrant |
On August 31, 2016, Myriad entered into a Credit Agreement (the “Credit Agreement”), by and among Myriad, as borrower, the lenders from time to time party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent (the “Agent”). Pursuant to the Credit Agreement, Myriad borrowed term loans in an aggregate principal amount of $200.0 million (the “Term Loans”). The Term Loans mature on August 31, 2017 (the “Maturity Date”). There shall be no scheduled principal payments of the Term Loan prior to the Maturity Date.
The proceeds of the Term Loans were used to (i) finance the acquisition of Assurex, (ii) refinance certain existing indebtedness of Assurex and its subsidiaries, (iii) pay fees, commissions, transactions costs and expenses incurred in connection with the foregoing, and (iv) for working capital and other general corporate purposes.
The Credit Agreement contains customary loan terms, interest rates, and representations and warranties and usual and customary affirmative and negative covenants, in each case, subject to customary limitations, exceptions and exclusions. The Credit Agreement also contains certain customary events of default.
The Agent and its affiliates have various relationships with Myriad and its subsidiaries involving the provision of financial services, such as investment banking, commercial banking, advisory, paying agent services and escrow services for which they receive customary fees and may do so in the future.
The information contained above under Item 2.01 is incorporated herein by reference.
| ITEM 8.01 | Other Events. |
On September 1, 2016, Myriad issued a press release announcing the completion of the Merger. The press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated by reference herein.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K includes “forward-looking statements” as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements reflect current views about future events. Investors should not rely on forward-looking statements because actual results may differ materially from those predicted as a result of a number of potential risks and uncertainties. These potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the possibility that the expected benefits related to the Merger may not materialize as expected; the risk that sales and profit margins of our existing molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services may decline or will not continue to increase at historical rates; risks related to our ability to transition from our existing
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product portfolio to our new tests; risks related to changes in the governmental or private insurers reimbursement levels for our tests or our ability to obtain reimbursement for our new tests at comparable levels to our existing tests; risks related to increased competition and the development of new competing tests and services; the risk that we may be unable to develop or achieve commercial success for additional molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services in a timely manner, or at all; the risk that we may not successfully develop new markets for our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services, including our ability to successfully generate revenue outside the United States; the risk that licenses to the technology underlying our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services tests and any future tests are terminated or cannot be maintained on satisfactory terms; risks related to delays or other problems with operating our laboratory testing facilities; risks related to public concern over our genetic testing in general or our tests in particular; risks related to regulatory requirements or enforcement in the United States and foreign countries and changes in the structure of the healthcare system or healthcare payment systems; risks related to our ability to obtain new corporate collaborations or licenses and acquire new technologies or businesses on satisfactory terms, if at all; risks related to our ability to successfully integrate and derive benefits from any technologies or businesses that we license or acquire; risks related to our projections about the potential market opportunity for our products; the risk that we or our licensors may be unable to protect or that third parties will infringe the proprietary technologies underlying our tests; the risk of patent-infringement claims or challenges to the validity of our patents; risks related to changes in intellectual property laws covering our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services and patents or enforcement in the United States and foreign countries, such as the Supreme Court decision in the lawsuit brought against us by the Association for Molecular Pathology et al; risks of new, changing and competitive technologies and regulations in the United States and internationally; and other factors discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” contained in Item 1A of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as any updates to those risk factors filed from time to time in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or Current Reports on Form 8-K. All information in the exhibits is as of the date of the exhibits, and Myriad undertakes no duty to update this information unless required by law.
| ITEM 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
| (a) | Financial Statements of Business Acquired. |
The financial statements required by Item 9.01(a) will be filed by amendment no later than 71 calendar days after the date this Current Report on Form 8-K must be filed.
| (b) | Pro Forma Financial Information. |
The pro forma financial information required by Item 9.01(b) will be filed by amendment no later than 71 calendar days after the date this Current Report on Form 8-K must be filed.
| (d) | Exhibits. |
Exhibit Number | Description | |
| 99.1 | Press Release issued by Myriad on September 1, 2016. | |
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SIGNATURES
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.
| MYRIAD GENETICS, INC. | ||||||
| Date: August 31, 2016 | By: | /s/ R. Bryan Riggsbee | ||||
| R. Bryan Riggsbee | ||||||
| Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer | ||||||
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit Number | Description | |
| 99.1 | Press Release issued by Myriad on September 1, 2016. | |
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