Current Report Filing (8-k)
August 14 2018 - 4:28PM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
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): August 9, 2018
LYDALL, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified
in its charter
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Commission file number: 1-7665
Delaware
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06-0865505
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(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)
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(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
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One Colonial Road, Manchester, Connecticut
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06042
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(Address of principal executive offices)
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(zip code)
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Registrant’s telephone number,
including area code: (860) 646-1233
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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
On August 9, 2018, Lydall, Inc. (“Lydall
or the “Company”) entered into a definitive Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) to acquire
Interface Performance Materials (“Interface” or the “Business”) for approximately $265 million in cash
(the “Acquisition”) from affiliates of Wind Point Partners. The Acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter
of 2018, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of customary closing conditions, including the expiration or termination or the
waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended.
Pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the Company
will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of Susquehanna Capital Acquisition Co. (the “Acquired
Company”), a subsidiary of Vulcan Global, LLC (the “Seller”), that holds all of the assets and operations of
the Business. Interface is headquartered in Lancaster, PA and supports its global sales with facilities in the U.S., Germany and
India that manufacture wet-laid gasket and specialty materials primarily serving OEM and Tier I manufacturers in the Agriculture,
Construction and Earthmoving Equipment, as well as Automotive and Industrial, sectors.
The Purchase Agreement contains customary
representations and warranties made by the Acquired Company and the Seller. The Acquired Company and the Seller have also agreed
to comply with covenants during the interim period between the date of the execution of the Purchase Agreement and the closing
of the Acquisition. Under the Purchase Agreement, the parties have agreed to indemnify each other for specified matters, subject
to certain limitations.
The representations, warranties and covenants
contained in the Purchase Agreement were made only for the purposes of the Purchase Agreement, were made as of specific dates,
were made solely for the benefit of the parties to the Purchase Agreement and may not have been intended to be statements of fact
but, rather, as a method of allocating risk and governing the contractual rights and relationships among the parties to the Purchase
Agreement. The assertions embodied in those representations and warranties may be subject to important qualifications and limitations
agreed to by the parties in connection with negotiating their respective terms. Moreover, the representations and warranties may
be subject to a contractual standard of materiality that may be different from what may be viewed as material to stockholders.
For the foregoing reasons, none of the Company’s stockholders nor any other person should rely on such representations and
warranties, or any characterizations thereof, as statements of factual information at the time they were made or otherwise.
The foregoing description of the Purchase
Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is filed herewith
as Exhibit 2.1 and is hereby incorporated by reference.
The Company intends to finance the Acquisition through a combination
of cash on hand and proceeds from committed debt financing. The Company’s obligations to complete the Acquisition are not
subject to any financing condition.
Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure
On August 9, 2018, the Company issued a
press release announcing, and held a conference call to discuss, the Acquisition. The press release announcing the Acquisition
is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1. The investor slides presented during the conference call are furnished herewith as
Exhibit 99.2.
The information in this Item 7.01 (including
Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2) shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by
reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference
in such a filing.
Item 8.01. Other Events
In connection with the Acquisition, the
Company announced that the approximately $1.1 million of corporate strategic initiative expenses included in its previously reported
financial results for the Second Quarter of 2018 primarily related to the Acquisition. The Company estimates that approximately
$3 million of additional transaction and integration expenses will be incurred over the second half of 2018 and less than $1 million
in 2019.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits.
The following exhibits are included with this report:
Cautionary Note Concerning Factors That May Affect Future
Results
This Current Report on Form 8-K
contains “forward-looking statements” within the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any
statements contained in this report that are not statements of historical fact, including statements related to the expected
timetable for closing the acquisition, including the satisfaction or waiver of closing conditions and the Company’s
plans for financing the Acquisition, may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. All such forward-looking statements are
intended to provide management’s current expectations for the future based on current expectations and assumptions
relating to the Company’s business, the economy and other future conditions. Forward-looking statements generally can
be identified through the use of words such as “believes,” “anticipates,” “may,”
“should,” “will,” “plans,” “projects,” “expects,”
“expectations,” “estimates,” “forecasts,” “predicts,” “targets,”
“prospects,” “strategy,” “signs,” and other words of similar meaning in connection with
the discussions herein. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent risks,
uncertainties and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others,
any delays in receiving required regulatory approvals, the Company’s ability to successfully integrate
Interface’s business into its business, the Company’s ability to retain and hire key personnel, the risk that
disruption resulting from the Acquisition may adversely affect the Company’s and Interface’s respective
businesses and business relationships, including with employees and suppliers, or in satisfying other closing conditions and
disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, including diminished liquidity and credit availability, that could
have a negative impact on the Company’s consummation of the financing or completion of the Acquisition. Accordingly,
actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements. Investors, therefore, are
cautioned against relying on any of these forward-looking statements. They are neither statements of historical fact nor
guarantees or assurances of future performance. Additional information regarding factors that may cause actual results to
differ materially from these forward-looking statements is available in Lydall’s filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including the risks and uncertainties identified in Part II, Item 1A - Risk Factors of Lydall’s
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2018 and Part I, Item 1A - Risk Factors of Lydall’s Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.
These forward-looking statements speak
only as of the date of this report, and Lydall does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement
made in this report or that may from time to time be made by or on behalf of the Company.
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 thereunto duly authorized.
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LYDALL, INC.
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August 14, 2018
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By:
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/s/ Chad A. McDaniel
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Chad A. McDaniel
Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and Chief Administrative Officer
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