Item 1.01
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Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
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Amendment No. 1 to Agreement and Plan of Merger
As previously announced on February 12, 2018, General Dynamics Corporation, a Delaware corporation (General Dynamics), Red Hawk
Enterprises Corp., a Nevada corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (Merger Sub), and CSRA Inc., a Nevada corporation (CSRA), entered into a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger (the Merger
Agreement), pursuant to which Merger Sub has commenced a cash tender offer (the Offer) to purchase all of the outstanding shares of CSRAs common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the Shares), for a purchase price
of $40.75 per Share in cash, net of applicable withholding taxes and without interest (the Offer Price). The Merger Agreement also provides, among other things, that following completion of the Offer and subject to certain conditions,
Merger Sub will merge with and into CSRA (together with the Offer, the Transactions), with CSRA continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics.
On March 20, 2018, General Dynamics, Merger Sub and CSRA entered into an amendment (Amendment No. 1) to the Merger Agreement. Pursuant
to Amendment No. 1, the Offer Price was increased from $40.75 per Share to $41.25 per Share, less any applicable withholding of taxes and without interest, payable in cash, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Offer (as so
amended).
The foregoing summary of Amendment No. 1 is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Amendment No. 1, which
is filed as Exhibit 2.1 to this Current Report on
Form 8-K and
is hereby incorporated by reference. Other than as expressly modified pursuant to Amendment No. 1, the Merger Agreement remains in
full force and effect as originally executed on February 9, 2018.
364-Day
Credit Agreement
In contemplation of financing the Transactions, on March 16, 2018, General Dynamics entered into a
364-Day
Credit
Agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the lenders named therein (the
364-Day
Credit Agreement). The
364-Day
Credit Agreement
provides General Dynamics with a syndicated
$7.5 billion, 364-day revolving
credit facility
(the 364-Day
Credit Facility) to be used for
general corporate purposes, including, without limitation, to finance the Transactions. The aggregate commitments in respect of
the 364-Day Credit
Facility will be automatically reduced by, and the
aggregate loans under
the 364-Day Credit
Facility will be prepaid, within five business days of receipt of such amount (at par plus accrued and unpaid interest) with, the net cash proceeds received
by General Dynamics or any of its subsidiaries from any sale or issuance of debt securities (excluding any issuances under commercial paper programs); provided, however, that the aggregate commitments in respect of
the 364-Day
Credit Facility will not be reduced below $2.0 billion.
The revolving commitment under the
364-Day
Credit Facility is available through floating rate advances and Eurocurrency advances. Advances will be made in U.S. Dollars in the case of floating rate advances, or in U.S. Dollars, British Pounds
Sterling, Canadian Dollars, Swiss Francs, Euros or other currencies as General Dynamics may request (subject to certain eligibility requirements in the case of all
non-U.S.
currencies) in the case of other
advances. Each floating rate advance (unless and until converted into a Eurocurrency advance) will bear interest at a per annum rate equal to the Alternate Base Rate (a rate based on the prime rate, the Federal Reserve Bank of New Yorks
federal funds effective rate or overnight bank funding rate plus 0.5% per annum or the Eurocurrency Rate minus the Applicable Eurocurrency Margin, in each case, plus 1%) for such day, plus the Applicable ABR Margin set forth on the Pricing Schedule
(as all such capitalized terms are defined in the
364-Day
Credit Agreement). The rate of interest applicable to each Eurocurrency advance will be the applicable Eurocurrency Rate (as defined in the
364-Day
Credit Agreement).
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The
364-Day
Credit Agreement requires General Dynamics to comply with
various affirmative and negative covenants, including, without limitation (i) covenants to provide certain financial information and reports, (ii) limitations on its ability to merge with other persons or dispose of all or substantially
all of its assets and (iii) covenants to refrain from incurring certain liens on its Principal Property or that of its Restricted Subsidiary (as such capitalized terms are defined therein). Repayments under the
364-Day
Credit Facility can be accelerated by the lenders upon the occurrence of certain events of default, including, without limitation, a failure to pay any principal, interest or other amounts due for five
business days after receiving notice, breaches of certain affirmative and negative covenants and other terms of the
364-Day
Credit Agreement, failure to pay certain other debts when due or the occurrence of a
change in control. The
364-Day
Credit Facility is unsecured. Certain subsidiaries of General Dynamics are required to guarantee the obligations of General Dynamics thereunder.
General Dynamics and its subsidiaries have relationships with some of the lenders under the
364-Day
Credit Facility
where they provide commercial banking, underwriting and other financial advisory services for which they have received (or will receive) customary fees and expenses.
The foregoing summary of the
364-Day
Credit Agreement is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to
the
364-Day
Credit Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on
Form 8-K and
is hereby incorporated by reference.