THE OFFER AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS WILL EXPIRE AT ONE MINUTE FOLLOWING 11:59 P.M. (12:00 MIDNIGHT), EASTERN TIME, ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2021, UNLESS THE OFFER IS EXTENDED OR EARLIER TERMINATED.
The Offer is being made pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 8, 2021 (as it may be amended from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among Speedway, Purchaser and Dover. The Merger Agreement provides, among other things, that, as soon as practicable following the consummation of the Offer and subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, Purchaser will be merged with and into Dover (the “Merger”) in accordance with Section 251(h) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (as amended, the “DGCL”), with Dover continuing as the surviving corporation in the Merger and thereby becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Speedway. Because the Merger will be governed by Section 251(h) of the DGCL, assuming the requirements of Section 251(h) of the DGCL are met, no vote of the stockholders of Dover will be required to adopt the Merger Agreement and consummate the Merger. As a result of the Merger, each Share that is outstanding immediately prior to the time the Merger becomes effective (other than Shares (i) owned by Dover as treasury stock, (ii) owned by Purchaser immediately prior to the Merger becoming effective or irrevocably accepted for purchase by Purchaser in the Offer, or (iii) held by Dover’s stockholders who are entitled and properly demand and do not lose or withdraw their appraisal rights under the DGCL) will be converted automatically into the right to receive $3.61 per Share in cash, without interest and subject to any required withholding of taxes. The treatment of the Company Equity Awards is discussed below in Section 11 – “The Merger Agreement; Other Agreements—Treatment and Payment of Dover’s Equity Awards.” Following the Merger, Dover will cease to be a publicly traded company.
The Offer is not subject to any financing condition. The Offer is conditioned upon, among other things, the satisfaction of the Minimum Condition. The “Minimum Condition” requires that the number of Shares validly tendered in accordance with the terms of the Offer and “received” by the “depositary” (as such terms are defined in Section 251(h)(6) of the DGCL) and not properly withdrawn, together with any Shares owned by Purchaser or its affiliates, equals at least one share more than 50% of the aggregate voting power of all issued and outstanding Shares combined as of one minute following 11:59 p.m. (12:00 midnight), Eastern Time, on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 (the “Expiration Time,” unless Purchaser has extended the period during which the Offer is open in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement, in which event “Expiration Time” means the latest time and date at which the Offer, as so extended, will expire). For purposes of determining whether the Minimum Condition has been satisfied, Shares tendered in the Offer pursuant to guaranteed delivery procedures that have not been received prior to the Expiration Time are excluded. The Offer is also subject to other conditions as described in the Offer to Purchase and the Merger Agreement. The conditions to the Offer must be satisfied or waived on or prior to the Expiration Time.
The board of directors of Dover has unanimously (i) determined that the Merger Agreement, the Offer, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement are fair to and in the best interests of Dover and its stockholders, (ii) approved the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby and declared it advisable that Dover enter into the Merger Agreement and consummate the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Offer and the Merger, (iii) approved the execution, delivery and performance by Dover of the Merger Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Offer and the Merger, (iv) resolved that the Merger Agreement and the Merger be governed by and effected under Section 251(h) of the DGCL, and (v) to the extent necessary, take all actions necessary to have the effect of causing the Merger, the Merger Agreement, the Support Agreement (as defined in the Merger Agreement) and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and the Support Agreement not to be subject to any state takeover law or similar law, rule or regulation that might otherwise apply to the Merger or any such transaction, in each case, on the terms and subject to the conditions of the Merger Agreement.
The Merger Agreement contains provisions governing the circumstances in which the Offer may be extended. Specifically, the Merger Agreement provides that Purchaser will extend the Offer on one or more occasions (i) for the minimum period required by any rule, regulation, interpretation or position of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), the staff thereof or the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) applicable to the Offer, and (ii) if, at the then-scheduled Expiration Time, any of the Offer Conditions has not been satisfied or