On December 5, 2024, Semtech Corporation (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and UBS Securities LLC, as the representatives of the several underwriters named therein (collectively, the “Underwriters”), relating to the issuance and sale (the “Offering”) of 10,496,032 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share, which includes the full exercise of the option granted to the Underwriters to purchase up to an additional 1,369,047 shares of common stock (collectively, the “Shares”), at a public offering price of $63.00 per share.
The net proceeds to the Company from the Offering, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, were approximately $640.7 million. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering for the repayment of certain indebtedness under the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated September 26, 2022, with the lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent.
The Offering was made pursuant to the Company’s automatically effective registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-283603) (the “Registration Statement”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 4, 2024, and an accompanying prospectus supplement relating to the Offering, dated December 5, 2024.
The Underwriting Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and agreements by the Company, conditions to closing, indemnification obligations of the Company and the Underwriters, including for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, other obligations of the parties and termination provisions. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Underwriting Agreement were made only for the purposes of such agreement and as of specific dates, and were solely for the benefit of the parties to such agreement. The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Underwriting Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 1.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.
A copy of the opinion of O’Melveny & Myers LLP relating to the validity of the Shares is filed as Exhibit 5.1 hereto and is incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement.
On December 5, 2024, the Company issued a press release announcing the pricing of the Offering. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated by reference into this Item 8.01.
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This Current Report on Form 8-K does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
Forward-Looking Statements
This Current Report on Form 8-K contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, based on the Company’s current expectations, estimates and projections about its operations, industry, financial condition, performance, results of operations, and liquidity. Forward-looking statements are statements other than historical information or statements of current condition and include statements regarding the anticipated use of proceeds from the Offering. Statements containing words such as “may,” “believes,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “projects,” “estimates,” “should,” “could,” “will,” “designed to,” “projections,” or “business outlook,” or other similar expressions constitute forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those projected. Potential factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: the Company’s ability to apply the proceeds from the Offering as intended; the Company’s ability to comply with, or pursue business strategies due to the covenants under the agreements governing its indebtedness; the Company’s ability to forecast and achieve anticipated net sales and earnings estimates in light of periodic economic uncertainty;
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