This Amendment No. 12 (this Amendment) amends and supplements the Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO initially filed
with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on December 13, 2019 (together with any amendments and supplements thereto, the Schedule TO) in relation to the tender offer by Stryker B.V., a private company with limited
liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid) organized under the laws of the Netherlands (Purchaser) and an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Stryker Corporation, a Michigan corporation (Stryker), for
all outstanding ordinary shares, par value 0.03 per share (the Shares), of Wright Medical Group N.V., a public limited liability company (naamloze vennootschap) organized under the laws of the Netherlands registered with the trade
register in the Netherlands under file number 34250781 (Wright) at a price of $30.75 per Share, without interest and less applicable withholding taxes, to the holders thereof, payable in cash, upon the terms and subject to the conditions
set forth in the offer to purchase dated December 13, 2019 (together with any amendments and supplements thereto, the Offer to Purchase), a copy of which is attached as Exhibit (a)(1)(A) to the Schedule TO, and in the related letter
of transmittal (together with any amendments and supplements thereto, the Letter of Transmittal), a copy of which is attached as Exhibit (a)(1)(B) to the Schedule TO, which, together with any other related materials, as each may be
amended or supplemented from time to time, collectively constitute the Offer.
All information contained in the Offer to Purchase
and the Letter of Transmittal, including all schedules thereto, is hereby incorporated by reference into all of the applicable items in the Schedule TO, except that such information is amended and supplemented to the extent specifically provided in
this Amendment. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined in this Amendment shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Offer to Purchase or in the Schedule TO.
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The Offer to Purchase is hereby amended and supplemented as follows:
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The terms of the Offer have been changed to eliminate the procedures for guaranteed delivery described in the initial Offer to Purchase.
Accordingly, Wright shareholders may not tender Shares to Purchaser pursuant to the Offer through guaranteed delivery procedures and will not be able to tender shares using a Notice of Guaranteed Delivery. Instead, Wright shareholders who wish to
tender Shares to Purchaser pursuant to the Offer must (i) make their certificates available to the Depositary or comply with the procedures for book-entry transfer, as applicable, and (ii) deliver any other required documents to the
Depositary, in each case prior to the Expiration Time (or, if the tender is made during any Subsequent Offering Period, as it may be extended by the Minority Exit Offering Period, prior to the expiration of the Subsequent Offering Period or, if
applicable, the Minority Exit Offering Period).
All references in the Offer to Purchase, the Letter of Transmittal, the Form of Letter to
Brokers, Dealers, Commercial Banks, Trust Companies, and Other Nominees (Exhibit (a)(1)(D) to the Schedule TO) and the Form of Letter to Clients for Use by Brokers, Dealers, Commercial Banks, Trust Companies, and Other Nominees (Exhibit (a)(1)(E) to
the Schedule TO) to procedures for guaranteed delivery for tendering Shares pursuant to the Offer and to the Notice of Guaranteed Delivery or any form thereof are hereby deleted in their entirety, and such documents are hereby further amended to
reflect necessary conforming changes in light of such deletions. As a result of these deletions and amendments, the disclosure in the Offer to Purchase under the heading Tenders in Section 3Procedures for
Accepting the Offer and Tendering Shares now reads in its entirety as follows:
Tenders. In order for Shares to be validly
tendered pursuant to the Offer, Wright shareholders must follow these procedures:
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If you are a record holder and you hold Shares in book-entry form on the books of Wrights transfer agent,
the following must be received by the Depositary at one of its addresses set forth in the Letter of Transmittal prior to the Expiration Time (unless the tender is made during any Subsequent Offering Period, as it may be extended by the Minority Exit
Offering Period, in which
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