CBPO China Bioligic Products Holdings Inc

AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO SCHEDULE 13D

CUSIP No. G21515104

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(1) Represents an aggregate of 111,509 Ordinary Shares currently held by Mr. Chow and 42,750 Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of restricted share units held by Mr. Chow within 60 days from the day hereof.
* Calculation is based upon 38,788,096 Ordinary Shares issued and outstanding as of November 19, 2020 provided by the Issuer. 

AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO SCHEDULE 13D

CUSIP No. G21515104

Item 1. Security and Issuer.

This Amendment No. 2 to Schedule 13D (this “Amendment No. 2”) amends and supplements the statement on Schedule 13D filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on September 23, 2020, as amended by Amendment No. 1 filed on October 29, 2020 (the “Schedule 13D”) with respect to the ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Ordinary Shares”) of China Biologic Products Holdings, Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Issuer”) whose principal executive offices is 18th Floor, Jialong International Building, 19 Chaoyang Park Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100125, People’s Republic of China.

The Issuer’s Ordinary Shares are listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “CBPO”.

Except as provided herein, this Amendment No. 2 does not modify any of the information previously reported on the Schedule 13D. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Amendment No.2 have the means ascribed to them in the Schedule 13D.

Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration.

Item 3 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by adding the following at the end thereof:

The descriptions of the Merger Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Equity Commitment Letters, the Limited Guarantees, the A&R Consortium Agreement and the Debt Commitment Letter (each as defined below) are incorporated by reference in this Item 3.

Item 4. Purpose of the Transaction.

Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by adding the following at the end thereof:

On November 19, 2020, the Issuer publicly announced that it had entered into an agreement and plan of merger, dated as of November 19, 2020 (the “Merger Agreement”), among the Issuer, CBPO Holdings Limited, an exempted company with limited liability incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (“Parent”), and CBPO Group Limited, an exempted company with limited liability incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, and subject to the terms and conditions thereof, Merger Sub will be merged with and into the Issuer (the “Merger”), with the Issuer continuing as the surviving company and becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, each Ordinary Share issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive $120.00 per Ordinary Share in cash without interest and net of any applicable withholding taxes, except for (a) Ordinary Shares owned by the Issuer or any of its subsidiaries, which will be cancelled without payment of any consideration therefor, (b) Ordinary Shares owned by Parent or any of its subsidiaries, including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Ordinary Shares contributed by the Rollover Securityholders (as defined below) to Parent pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Support Agreement (as defined below), which at Parent’s discretion, with notice by Parent to the Issuer no later than the Effective Time, will be (i) cancelled without payment of any consideration therefor or (ii) converted into the same number of shares of the surviving company, and (c) Ordinary Shares owned by holders who have validly exercised and not effectively withdrawn or lost their rights to dissent from the Merger pursuant to Section 238 of the Companies Law of the Cayman Islands, which will be cancelled and will entitle the former holders thereof to receive the fair value thereon determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 238 of the Companies Law of the Cayman Islands.

Following the consummation of the Merger, the Issuer will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. In addition, if the Merger is consummated, the Ordinary Shares will no longer be listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, the Issuer’s obligations to file periodic reports under the Exchange Act will be terminated, and the Issuer will be privately held by the members of the Buyer Consortium.

The Consortium anticipates that approximately $1.56 billion is expected to be expended to complete the Merger. This amount includes (a) the estimated funds required by Parent to (i) purchase the outstanding Ordinary Shares not owned by members of the Buyer Consortium and their respective affiliates at a purchase price of $120.00 per Ordinary Share, and (ii) settle outstanding options, restricted share awards and restricted share unit awards of the Issuer in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement, and (b) the estimated transaction costs associated with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including the Merger (the “Transactions”).

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The Transactions will be funded through a combination of (a) the proceeds from a committed senior term loan facility contemplated by a debt commitment letter dated November 13, 2020 (the “Debt Commitment Letter”) by and among Merger Sub and Ping An Bank Co., Ltd., Shanghai Branch and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co., Ltd., Shanghai Branch (the “Arrangers” and “Underwriters”), (b) cash in the Issuer and its subsidiaries, (c) rollover securities of the Issuer from the Rollover Securityholders, which will be contributed to Parent and will be (i) cancelled without payment of any consideration therefor or (ii) converted into the same number of shares of the surviving company, at Parent’s discretion, with notice by Parent to the Issuer no later than the Effective Time, and (d) if any of the transactions contemplated by the applicable Additional PWM SPAs or the Additional Parfield SPA fails to consummate prior to the closing of the Merger, cash contributions contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters (as defined below).

Under the terms and subject to the conditions of the Debt Commitment Letter, the Arrangers and Underwriters have committed to arrange and underwrite a senior term loan facility of $1,100,000,000 to Merger Sub to consummate the Merger.

Concurrently with the execution of the Merger Agreement, Beachhead, Double Double, Point Forward, Parfield, 2019B Cayman, Hillhouse, HH China Bio Holdings LLC (an affiliate of Hillhouse), V-Sciences Investments Pte Ltd (“V-Sciences”, which is previously defined as “Temasek”), Mr. Chow, Biomedical Treasure, Biomedical Future, Biomedical Development, Guangli Pang, Ming Yang, Gang Yang, Ming Yin and Bingbing Sun (each, a “Rollover Securityholder”),TB MGMT Holding Company Limited (“TB MGMT”), TB Executives Unity Holding Limited (“TB Executives”) and TB Innovation Holding Limited (“TB Innovation”) entered into a voting and support agreement dated as of November 19, 2020 (the “Support Agreement”) with Parent, pursuant to which each Rollover Securityholder agreed with Parent, among other things, (a) subject to the terms and conditions of the Support Agreement, to vote its equity securities of the Issuer, together with any Ordinary Shares (whether or not subject to a restricted share award of the Issuer) acquired (whether beneficially or of record) by such Rollover Securityholder after the date hereof and prior to the earlier of the Effective Time and the termination of such Rollover Securityholder’s obligations under the Support Agreement, in favor of the approval of the Merger Agreement, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, and to take certain other actions in furtherance of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; and (b) subject to the terms and conditions of the Support Agreement, to contribute to Parent immediately prior to or at the Effective Time the rollover securities of the Issuer beneficially owned by such Rollover Securityholder.

Concurrently with the execution of the Merger Agreement, 2019B Cayman, TB MGMT, TB Executives, TB Innovation and each existing member of the Buyer Consortium entered into an amended and restated consortium agreement (the “A&R Consortium Agreement”) with Parent and Merger Sub, pursuant to which, among other things, (a) the parties thereto agreed to certain terms and conditions that will govern the actions of Parent and Merger Sub and the relationship among the members of the Buyer Consortium with respect to the Transactions, (b) each of TB MGMT, TB Executives and TB Innovation agreed to join the Buyer Consortium, (c) the parties thereto agreed that effective from the date of the A&R Consortium Agreement, all rights and obligations of CITIC Capital under the Consortium Agreement are assigned, novated and transferred to 2019B Cayman, and (c) in anticipation of consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Additional PWM SPAs, the parties thereto agreed to terminate certain provisions of the Consortium Agreement with respect to PWM in accordance with the terms of the A&R Consortium Agreement and PWM agreed to comply with its obligations under certain provisions of the A&R Consortium Agreement and the PWM Voting Undertaking (as defined below).

Concurrently with the execution of the Merger Agreement, each of Centurium, Parfield, 2019B Cayman, Hillhouse, V-Sciences, Biomedical Treasure, Biomedical Future, Biomedical Development and/or its affiliate(s) executed and delivered a limited guarantee (collectively, the “Limited Guarantees”) in favor of the Issuer with respect to a portion of the payment obligations of Parent under the Merger Agreement for the termination fee that may become payable to the Issuer by Parent under certain circumstances and certain costs and expenses, as set forth in the Merger Agreement.Concurrently with the execution of the Merger Agreement, each of Biomedical Treasure, Biomedical Future and CC China (2019B) L.P. (an affiliate of 2019B Cayman) entered into an equity commitment letter (collectively, the “Equity Commitment Letters”) in favor of Parent, pursuant to which such person undertook to make certain equity contributions to Parent, subject to the terms and conditions thereof, the proceeds of which will be used to fund the Transactions,. Under the terms and subject to the conditions of the Equity Commitment Letters issued and delivered by each of Biomedical Treasure and Biomedical Future, Biomedical Treasure or Biomedical Future will provide, or cause to be provided, equity financing to Parent in an amount of $450,000,000 or $79,299,960 (as the case maybe) in connection with the Transactions.

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Concurrently with the execution of the Merger Agreement, PWM entered into a voting undertaking (the “PWM Voting Undertaking”), pursuant to which PWM agreed, among other things, subject to the terms and conditions of the PWM Voting Undertaking, to vote the equity securities of the Issuer beneficially owned by it in favor of the approval of the Merger Agreement, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

In connection with the entry into the Merger Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Equity Commitment Letters, the Limited Guarantees, the A&R Consortium Agreement, the PWM Voting Undertaking and the Debt Commitment Letter (collectively, the “Merger Documents”), the Board has granted to the Initial Consortium Members and other applicable parties a waiver from complying with certain restrictions as agreed under (i) that certain investor rights agreement, dated as of January 1, 2018, entered into by and between PWM and the Issuer, and (ii) (A) those certain confidentiality agreements, dated as of October 20, 2019, by and between each of Beachhead, PWM, Parfield, CITIC Capital, Hillhouse and V-Sciences, respectively, and the Issuer and (B) that certain confidentiality agreement, dated as of October 14, 2020, by and between Mr. Chow and the Issuer. The Board has also determined, among other things, that the parties to the waiver and their respective affiliates will not be deemed to be an “Acquiring Person” under the Issuer’s currently effective preferred shares rights agreement, nor shall any provision under such preferred shares rights agreement be otherwise triggered for the entry into, or the performance of any obligations (including entering into the agreements and consummating the transactions contemplated or referenced to) under, the Merger Documents.

References to the Merger Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Limited Guarantees issued and delivered by each of Biomedical Treasure, Biomedical Future and Biomedical Development, the Equity Commitment Letters issued and delivered by each of Biomedical Treasure and Biomedical Future, the A&R Consortium Agreement and the Debt Commitment Letter are qualified in their entirety by reference to the Merger Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Limited Guarantees issued and delivered by each of Biomedical Treasure, Biomedical Future and Biomedical Development, the Equity Commitment Letters issued and delivered by each of Biomedical Treasure and Biomedical Future, the A&R Consortium Agreement and the Debt Commitment Letter, copies of which are attached hereto as exhibits incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.

Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer.

Item 5 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

(a)-(b)  Items 7 through 11 and 13 (including the footnotes thereto) of each of the cover pages of this Schedule 13D are incorporated by reference into this Item 5.

Because of the arrangements in the A&R Consortium Agreement, the parties to that agreement are deemed to have formed a “group” for purposes of Section 13(d)(3) of the Act, and such “group” is deemed to beneficially own an aggregate of 26,528,890 Ordinary Shares, which represents approximately 68.3% of the total number of Ordinary Shares issued and outstanding as of November 19, 2020 as provided by the Issuer. Neither the filing of this Amendment No. 2 nor any of its contents, however, shall be deemed to constitute an admission by the Reporting Persons that any of them is the beneficial owner of any of the 15,858,899 Ordinary Shares beneficially owned in the aggregate by PWM, Parfield, CITIC Capital, Hillhouse, V-Sciences, Mr. Chow and their respective affiliates for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Act or for any other purpose, and such beneficial ownership is expressly disclaimed.

(c)  Except as set forth herein, to the knowledge of the Reporting Person with respect to the persons named in response to Item 5(a)-(b), none of the person named in response to Item 5(a)-(b) has effected any transactions in the Ordinary Shares during the past 60 days.

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(d)  No person other than the persons listed is known to have the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, any securities owned by the Reporting Person.

(e)  Not applicable.

Item 6. Contracts, Arrangement, Understanding or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer.

Item 6 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by adding the following at the end thereof:

The descriptions of the principal terms of the Merger Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Equity Commitment Letters, the Limited Guarantees, the A&R Consortium Agreement, the PWM Voting Undertaking and the Debt Commitment Letter under Item 4 are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.

Item 7. Material to be Filed as Exhibits.

Item 7 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by adding the following at the end thereof:

SIGNATURE

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of its knowledge and belief, each of the undersigned certifies that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Date: November 20, 2020