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):
May 7, 2014
Chelsea TherapEUtics International, Ltd. |
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) |
Delaware |
000-51462 |
20-3174202 |
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(IRS Employer ID Number) |
3530 Toringdon Way, Suite 200, Charlotte, North Carolina 28277 |
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (704)
341-1516
Check the appropriate
box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the
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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive
Agreement.
Agreement and Plan of Merger
On May 7, 2014, Chelsea Therapeutics International,
Ltd., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger
Agreement”) with H. Lundbeck A/S, a Danish corporation (“Parent”) and Charlie Acquisition Corp., a
Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Acquisition Sub”).
Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, and upon
the terms and subject to the conditions thereof, Parent will cause Acquisition Sub to commence a tender offer (as it may be amended
from time to time, the “Offer”) to purchase any and all of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common
stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Shares”), for a purchase price consisting of (i) $6.44 per Share in
cash, without interest (the “Cash Consideration”), and (ii) one contingent value right of Parent per Share (a
“CVR” and, together with the Cash Consideration, the “Merger Consideration”), which represents
a contractual right to receive up to $1.50 per CVR upon the achievement of certain sales milestones, in each case subject to any
required withholding of taxes.
The obligation of Acquisition Sub
to purchase Shares tendered in the Offer is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of a number of conditions set forth in
the Merger Agreement, including (i) Shares have been validly tendered and not validly withdrawn that represent a majority of
the Fully Diluted Shares (as defined in the Merger Agreement) as of the expiration of the Offer, (ii) the expiration or
termination of applicable waiting periods under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, (iii)
the absence of governmental orders and litigation (A) challenging or seeking to prohibit the Offer or the Merger (as defined
below) or (B) that, if successful, would reasonably be expected to result in a prohibition or limitation on Parent’s
ownership and use of Northera, (iv) there not having occurred any change, circumstance, event or occurrence that has had or
would reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect (as defined in the Merger Agreement), and (v)
other customary conditions. The consummation of the Offer is not subject to any financing condition.
Following the successful completion
of the Offer and subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain customary conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement,
Acquisition Sub will merge with and into the Company, with the Company surviving as an indirectly wholly owned subsidiary of
Parent (the “Merger”), pursuant to the procedure provided for under Section 251(h) of the Delaware General
Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) without any additional stockholder approvals. At the effective time of the
Merger (the “Effective Time”), each issued and outstanding Share (other than Shares owned by the Company,
Parent, Acquisition Sub, any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company, Parent or Acquisition Sub or by stockholders of
the Company who have validly exercised their statutory rights of appraisal under the DGCL) will be converted into the right
to receive the Merger Consideration.
To the extent not exercised prior to the
Effective Time, then at the Effective Time, each Company stock option (“Company Option”) shall be deemed to
be cancelled, with each former holder of any such cancelled Company Option with an exercise price less than the Cash Consideration
becoming entitled to receive, at the Effective Time or as soon as practicable thereafter (i) an amount in cash, without interest,
equal to (a) the excess of the Cash Consideration over the exercise price per Share subject to such Company Option multiplied by
(b) the total number of Shares subject to such Company Option and (ii) one CVR for each Share subject to such Company Option. The
amount payable shall be zero with respect to a Company Option that has an exercise price that is equal to or exceeds the Cash Consideration
and such Company Option shall be cancelled and terminated without any payment being made in respect thereof (whether in the form
of cash or a CVR).
The Merger Agreement includes representations
and warranties and covenants of the parties customary for a transaction of this nature. Until the earlier of the termination of
the Merger Agreement and the Effective Time, the Company has agreed to operate its business and the business of its subsidiaries
in the ordinary course and has agreed to certain other operating covenants, as set forth more fully in the Merger Agreement. The
Company has also agreed (i) not to solicit or initiate discussions with any third party regarding acquisition proposals and (ii)
to certain restrictions on its ability to respond to such proposals, subject to fulfillment of certain fiduciary requirements of
the board of directors of the Company.
The Merger Agreement also includes customary
termination provisions for both the Company and Parent and provides that, in connection with the termination of the Merger Agreement
under specified circumstances, including termination by the Company to accept and enter into a definitive agreement with respect
to an unsolicited superior proposal, the Company will be required to pay a $18,550,000 fee (the “Termination Fee”),
less the amount of Parent expenses previously reimbursed by the Company pursuant to the Merger Agreement. A superior proposal is
a bona fide written inquiry, offer or proposal pursuant to which a third party would acquire more than 50% of the voting power
of the Company on terms that the Board of Directors of the Company determines in its good faith judgment (after consultation with
its outside financial advisors and outside legal counsel) to be more favorable to the Company’s stockholders from a financial
point of view than the terms of the Offer and the Merger and is reasonably capable of being completed on the terms proposed taking
into account all terms and conditions of the proposal and all relevant circumstances. Any such termination of the Merger Agreement
by the Company is subject to certain conditions, including the Company’s compliance with certain procedures set forth in
the Merger Agreement and a determination by the board of directors of the Company that the failure to terminate the Merger Agreement
would reasonably be expected to be inconsistent with its fiduciary duties to stockholders under applicable law, payment of the
Termination Fee by the Company and the substantially concurrent execution of a definitive agreement by the Company with such third
party. Additionally, upon a termination of the Merger Agreement under certain circumstances, the Company will be required to reimburse
Parent for reasonably documented expenses incurred in connection with the transaction in amount up to $2,650,000.
Contingent Value Rights Agreement
Prior to the closing of the Offer, Parent
and a rights agent to be selected by Parent and reasonably acceptable to the Company will enter into a Contingent Value Rights
Agreement (“CVR Agreement”) governing the terms of the CVRs. Each holder shall be entitled to one CVR for (i)
each Share outstanding that Acquisition Sub accepts for payment from such holder pursuant to the Offer, (ii) each outstanding Share
owned by or issued to such holder as of immediately prior to the Effective Time and converted into the right to receive the Merger
Consideration pursuant to the Merger Agreement, and (iii) each Share underlying a Company Option with an exercise price less than
the Cash Consideration that is then outstanding and unexercised, immediately prior to the Effective Time. The CVRs will not be
transferable, will not be certificated or evidenced by any instrument and will not be registered or listed for trading.
Pursuant to the terms and subject to the
conditions of the CVR Agreement, the holder of a CVR will have a right to receive contingent cash payments from Parent based upon
net sales of Northera during the period commencing on January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2017 (each of the below, a “Milestone
Payment”), as follows:
| · | Holders of CVRs will be entitled to receive a payment of up to $0.50 per CVR based on the amount,
if any, by which worldwide net sales of Northera (excluding Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan) exceed $100,000,000 during the period
commencing January 1, 2015 to and including December 31, 2015. |
| · | Holders of the CVRs will be entitled to receive a payment of up to $0.50 per CVR based on the amount,
if any, by which worldwide net sales of Northera (excluding Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan) exceed $200,000,000 during the period
commencing January 1, 2016 to and including December 31, 2016. |
| · | Holders of the CVRs will be entitled to receive a payment for each CVR of up to $0.50 based on
the amount, if any, by which worldwide net sales of Northera (excluding Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan) exceed $300,000,000 during
the period commencing January 1, 2017 to and including December 31, 2017. |
Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
On May 8, 2014, the Company and Parent issued a joint press
release announcing the execution of the Merger Agreement. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is
incorporated herein by reference.
In light of the execution of the Merger
Agreement, the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which has historically been held during the first two weeks of June,
has been postponed until further notice.
Additional Information
The foregoing descriptions of the Merger
Agreement and the CVR Agreement are not complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the Merger Agreement and the
form of CVR Agreement, respectively, which are attached as Exhibits 2.1 and 2.2 to this report, respectively, and incorporated
herein by reference.
The Merger Agreement and the CVR Agreement,
and the foregoing descriptions of each agreement, have been included to provide investors and stockholders with information regarding
the terms of each agreement. They are not intended to provide any other factual information about the Company. The representations,
warranties and covenants contained in each agreement were made only as of specified dates for the purposes of such agreements,
were solely for the benefit of the parties to such agreements and may be subject to qualifications and limitations agreed upon
by such parties. In particular, in reviewing the representations, warranties and covenants contained in each agreement and discussed
in the foregoing descriptions, it is important to bear in mind that such representations, warranties and covenants were negotiated
with the principal purpose of allocating risk between the parties, rather than establishing matters as facts. Such representations,
warranties and covenants may also be subject to a contractual standard of materiality different from those generally applicable
to stockholders and reports and documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). Investors
are not third-party beneficiaries under the Merger Agreement or the CVR Agreement. Accordingly, investors and stockholders should
not rely on such representations, warranties and covenants as characterizations of the actual state of facts or circumstances described
therein. Information concerning the subject matter of such representations, warranties and covenants may change after the date
of the agreements, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in the parties’ public disclosures.
Notice to Investors
The Offer has not yet commenced, and this
document is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell any shares of the common stock of the Company or
any other securities. On the commencement date of the Offer, Acquisition Sub will file a Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO,
including an offer to purchase, a letter of transmittal and related documents, with the SEC and thereafter the Company will file
a Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9 with the SEC. Investors and security holders are urged to read both the
Tender Offer Statement and the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement regarding the Offer, as they may be amended from time to time,
when they become available because they will contain important information. Investors and security holders may obtain a free copy
of these statements (when available) and other documents filed with the SEC at the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov
or by directing such requests to the Information Agent for the tender offer which will be named in the Tender Offer Statement.
Copies of the Company’s filings with the SEC may also be obtained free of charge at the “Investors” section of
the Company’s website at www.chelseatherapeutics.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this document may contain,
in addition to historical information, certain forward-looking statements. Some of these forward-looking statements may contain
words like “believe,” “may,” “could,” “would,” “might,” “possible,”
“will,” “should,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “anticipate,”
or “continue,” the negative of these words, other terms of similar meaning or they may use future dates. Forward-looking
statements in this document include without limitation statements regarding the planned completion of the Offer and the Merger.
These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those
anticipated, including, but not limited to, risks and uncertainties related to: the timing of the transaction; the percentage of
the Company’s stockholders tendering their shares in the offer; the possibility that competing offers will be made; the possibility
that various closing conditions for the transaction may not be satisfied or waived, including that a governmental entity may prohibit,
delay or refuse to grant approval for the consummation of the transaction; the effects of disruption caused by the transaction
making it more difficult to maintain relationships with employees, collaborators, vendors and other business partners; stockholder
litigation in connection with the transaction resulting in significant costs of defense, indemnification and liability; and other
risks and uncertainties discussed in the Company’s filings with the SEC, including the “Risk Factors” sections
of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013 and subsequent quarterly reports on Form
10-Q, as well as the tender offer documents to be filed by Acquisition Sub and the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement to be
filed by the Company. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information,
future developments or otherwise, except as expressly required by law. All forward-looking statements in this document are qualified
in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and
Exhibits
Exhibit No. |
Description |
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2.1* |
Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 7, 2014, by and among Chelsea Therapeutics International, Ltd., H. Lundbeck A/S and Charlie Acquisition Corp. |
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2.2 |
Form of Contingent Value Rights Agreement. |
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99.1 |
Joint press release issued by the Company and the Parent, dated May 8, 2014. |
* The Company will furnish a copy of any
omitted schedule to the SEC upon request; provided, however, that the Company may request confidential treatment pursuant to Rule
24b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, for any schedule so furnished.
Signature
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.
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CHELSEA THERAPEUTICS INTERNATIONAL, LTD. |
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By: |
/s/ J. Nick Riehle |
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J. Nick Riehle |
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Chief Financial Officer |
Dated: May 8, 2014
Exhibit Index
Exhibit No. |
Description |
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2.1* |
Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 7, 2014, by and among Chelsea Therapeutics International, Ltd., H. Lundbeck A/S and Charlie Acquisition Corp. |
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2.2 |
Form of Contingent Value Rights Agreement. |
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99.1 |
Joint press release issued by the Company and the Parent, dated May 8, 2014. |
* The Company will furnish a copy of any
omitted schedule to the SEC upon request; provided, however, that the Company may request confidential treatment pursuant to Rule
24b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, for any schedule so furnished.
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