Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Agreement and Plan of Merger
On January 22, 2013, MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
Company
), Allergan, Inc., a Delaware Corporation (
Parent
), and Groundhog Acquisition,
Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the
Purchaser
), entered into a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger (the
Merger Agreement
), pursuant to which Parent, through the
Purchaser, will commence an offer (the
Offer
) to acquire all of the outstanding shares of the Companys common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the
Shares
), for $25.00 per share net to the seller in cash,
without interest (the
Offer Price
).
Completion of the Offer is subject to several conditions, including
(i) that a majority of the Shares outstanding (determined on a fully diluted basis) be validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to the expiration of the Offer (including any Shares owned by Allergan and its subsidiaries); (ii) the
expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period relating to the Offer, the Merger (as defined below) or the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended
(the
HSR Act
); (iii) the absence of a material adverse effect on the Company; and (iv) certain other customary conditions. The consummation of the Offer is not subject to any financing condition.
The Merger Agreement also provides that following consummation of the Offer and satisfaction of certain conditions, the Purchaser will
merge with and into the Company (the
Merger
), with the Company surviving as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent. Upon completion of the Merger, each Share outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger
(excluding those Shares that are held by (i) Parent, the Purchaser, the Company or their respective subsidiaries or (ii) stockholders of the Company who properly exercised their appraisal rights under the Delaware General Corporation Law)
will be converted into the right to receive the Offer Price.
If the Purchaser holds 90% or more of the outstanding Shares
following the completion of the Offer, the parties will effect the Merger as a short-form merger without the need for approval by the Companys stockholders. Otherwise, the Company may hold a special stockholders meeting to obtain
stockholder approval of the Merger. Subject to the terms of the Merger Agreement, applicable law and the number of authorized and unissued Shares available under the Companys certificate of incorporation, the Company has granted the Purchaser
an irrevocable option (the
Top-Up Option
), exercisable only on the terms and conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, to purchase, at a price per Share equal to the Offer Price, newly issued Shares in an amount up to the
lowest number of Shares that, when added to the number of Shares that is then directly or indirectly owned by Parent or the Purchaser, constitutes one Share more than 90% of the outstanding Shares after the issuance of the new Shares sold to the
Purchaser. The Purchaser will pay the Offer Price for each Share acquired through exercise of the Top-Up Option, with the Purchaser paying the Company the aggregate par value of the Top-Up Option Shares in cash and the balance of the aggregate price
by delivery of a promissory note.
Parent and the Company have made customary representations, warranties and covenants in the
Merger Agreement, including covenants (i) to effect, as promptly as reasonably practicable, all registrations, filings and submissions required pursuant to the HSR Act and any other required governmental approvals, the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended, and other applicable laws with respect to the Offer and the Merger; and (ii) to use commercially reasonable efforts to take all appropriate action to consummate and effectuate the transactions contemplated by the Merger
Agreement. The Company has agreed to conduct its business in all material respects in the ordinary course consistent with past practice, including not taking certain specified actions, prior to consummation of the Merger or termination of the Merger
Agreement.
The Company has agreed not to solicit, initiate, seek, or knowingly encourage, induce or facilitate or take any
action to solicit, initiate or seek or knowingly encourage, induce or facilitate any inquiry, expression of interest, proposal or offer that constitutes, relates to or could reasonably be expected to lead to any alternative proposal for the
acquisition of the Company. However, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, the Company and its board of directors, as applicable, would be permitted to
take certain actions which may, as more fully described in the Merger Agreement, include changing the board of directors recommendation following receipt of an unsolicited proposal, if the
board of directors of the Company has concluded in good faith after consultation with its outside legal counsel that failure to do so would be inconsistent with the fiduciary duties owed by the board of directors to the stockholders under Delaware
law. In addition, the board of directors would be permitted to change its recommendation, for reasons not related to the receipt of an unsolicited proposal, in response to facts, events and/or circumstances that have developed since the signing of
the Merger Agreement and of which the board of directors did not, as of the date thereof, have knowledge and that were not reasonably foreseeable to the board of directors as of or immediately prior to the date thereof after due inquiry of the
Companys executive management team if the board of directors has concluded in good faith after consultation with the Companys outside legal counsel that in light of the unforeseen developments the failure to make such change in
recommendation would reasonably be expected to be inconsistent with the fiduciary duties owed by the board of directors to the stockholders under Delaware law (it being understood that any such unforeseen developments shall exclude any approval by
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the Companys New Drug Application (
NDA
) for
LEVADEX
®
(or any resubmission of such NDA or any other NDA relating to LEVADEX
®
)).
The Merger Agreement can be terminated by Parent or the Company under certain circumstances, and the Company will be required to pay Parent a termination fee of $36 million in connection with certain
terminations.
The Merger Agreement has been unanimously adopted by the board of directors of the Company and the board of
directors of the Company unanimously recommends that stockholders of the Company tender their Shares in the Offer, and, if necessary, vote to approve the Merger.
The foregoing description of the Offer, the Merger and the Merger Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Merger Agreement, which is attached hereto
as Exhibit 2.1. The Merger Agreement has been incorporated herein by reference to provide information regarding the terms of the Merger Agreement and is not intended to modify or supplement any factual disclosures about the Company, Parent or the
Purchaser in any public reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by the Company or Parent. In particular, the assertions embodied in the representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Merger Agreement were made only
for the purposes of the Merger Agreement, were solely for the benefit of the parties to the Merger Agreement, and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties, including being qualified by information in confidential
disclosure schedules provided by the Company to Parent in connection with the signing of the Merger Agreement. These disclosure schedules contain information that modifies, qualifies and creates exceptions to the representations and warranties set
forth in the Merger Agreement. Moreover, the representations and warranties in the Merger Agreement were used for the purpose of allocating risk between the Company, Parent and Purchaser, rather than establishing matters of fact. Accordingly, the
representations and warranties in the Merger Agreement may not constitute the actual state of facts about the Company, Parent or Purchaser. The representations and warranties set forth in the Merger Agreement may also be subject to a contractual
standard of materiality different from that generally applicable to investors under federal securities laws. Therefore, the Merger Agreement is included with this filing only to provide investors with information regarding the terms of the Merger
Agreement, and not to provide investors with any other factual information regarding the parties or their respective businesses.
On January 22, 2013, the Company issued a joint press release with Parent relating to the Merger Agreement. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Tender and Support Agreement
On January 22, 2013, in connection with the Merger Agreement, Brookside Capital Partners Fund, L.P., Thomas A. Armer, Christopher Y. Chai, Charlene A. Friedman, Anastasios E. Gianakakos, Donald J.
Kellerman, Pharm.D., Scott Borland, Matthew V. McPherron, H. Ward Wolff, Scott R. Ward, Bernard J. Kelley, Gerri A. Henwood and W. James OShea (together, the
Supporting Stockholders
), each solely in their capacity as
stockholders of the Company, entered into a Tender and Support Agreement with Parent and Purchaser (the
Tender and Support Agreement
). Under the terms of the Tender and Support Agreement, the Supporting Stockholders have agreed to
tender all Shares now held or hereafter acquired by them in the Offer. The Supporting Stockholders have also agreed to vote such shares in support of the Merger in the event stockholder approval is required to consummate the Merger. The Tender and
Support Agreement allows certain of the Company stockholders who, as of the date of the Tender and Support Agreement, are parties to a written plan for trading Shares in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act (each, a
10b5-1
Plan
), to sell pursuant to such stockholders 10b5-1 Plan up to that number of Shares indicated on Schedule A to the Tender and Support Agreement as permitted to be sold under such 10b5-1 Plan, which Shares will be those issued upon
the exercise of stock options outstanding as of the date of the Tender and Support Agreement or Shares outstanding as of the Tender and Support Agreement, as the case may be, solely as specified in Schedule A to the Tender and Support Agreement. The
Supporting Stockholders collectively hold 3,312,176 outstanding Shares, or approximately 9.36% of the currently outstanding Shares.
The foregoing provisions of the Tender and Support Agreement terminate in the event that the
Merger Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms, upon the occurrence of a Triggering Event (as defined in the Merger Agreement, or in the event of an amendment to the Agreement that reduces the amount, or changes the form, of
consideration payable to the stockholders of the Company pursuant to the terms of the Agreement.
The foregoing description of
the Tender and Support Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Tender and Support Agreement, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1.