Current Report Filing (8-k)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 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): February 3, 2020

KEMET Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)



Delaware	001-15491	57-0923789
(State of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

KEMET Tower, One East Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301

(Address of principal executive offices, zip code)

(954) 766-2800

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)



Title of each class	Trading Symbol	Name of exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.01	KEM	New York Stock Exchange

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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

As previously reported on Form 8-K filed by KEMET Corporation (the “Company”) on November 12, 2019 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, on November 8, 2019 the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary, KEMET Electronics Corporation (“KEC”) entered into a settlement agreement (the “Settlement Agreement”) with the plaintiffs in the antitrust suit pending in the United States District Court, Northern District of California (the “Court”) as In re: Capacitors Antitrust Litigation, No. 3:14-cv-03264-JD. On January 23, 2020 the Court ordered that the members of the Class (as defined in the Settlement Agreement) be given an opportunity to opt out of the settlement proposed in the Settlement Agreement. In furtherance thereof, the Company, KEC and the plaintiffs entered into an Addendum to Settlement Agreement dated as of February 3, 2020 (the “Addendum”), which provides that members of the Class may opt out of the settlement and sets forth the procedures pursuant to which (and the date by which) such members can elect to be excluded from the settlement class. The Addendum further provides that if the aggregate amount of U.S. Purchases (as defined in the Settlement Agreement) by the members of the Class who elect to be excluded from the settlement class exceeds 10% of all U.S. Purchases by all Class members, then the Company may terminate the Settlement Agreement in its entirety without any further liability or obligation.

The foregoing description of the Addendum does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Addendum, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(a) Not Applicable

(b) Not Applicable

(d) Exhibits



Exhibit No.			Description of Exhibit

10.1			Addendum to Settlement Agreement, dated February 3, 2020

104			Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded in the cover page formatted in Inline XBRL)

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.