This Amendment No. 35 (this “Amendment”) amends and
supplements the Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO, originally
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“SEC”) on October 27, 2021 (as hereby amended and
supplemented and together with any subsequent amendments and
supplements thereto, this “Schedule TO”), which relates to
the tender offer by IEP Utility Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company (the “Offeror”), to purchase any and all
of the issued and outstanding shares of the common stock, par value
$1.00 per share (the “Common Stock”), of Southwest Gas
Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company” or
“Southwest Gas”), including the associated rights issued
pursuant to the Rights Agreement, dated October 10, 2021 (as
it may be amended from time to time, the “Rights
Agreement”), between the Company and Equiniti Trust Company, as
rights agent, that are issued and outstanding (the “Rights”
and, together with the Common Stock, the “Shares”), for
$82.50 per Share in cash, without interest, less any applicable
withholding taxes (the “Offer Price”), upon the terms set
forth in the Offer to Purchase, dated October 27, 2021 (the
“Offer to Purchase”), the related letter of transmittal (the
“Letter of Transmittal”), the Notice of Guaranteed Delivery
(the “Notice of Guaranteed Delivery”), the Supplement to the
Offer to Purchase, dated December 7, 2021 (the “December
Supplement”), the Supplement to the Offer, dated May 9, 2022
(“May Supplement”), the Revised Letter of Transmittal (the
“Revised Letter of Transmittal”), the Revised Notice of
Guaranteed Delivery (the “Revised Notice of Guaranteed
Delivery”), and the other related materials, as each may be
amended or supplemented from time to time, constitutes the
“Offer”.
This Amendment is being filed to amend and supplement the Schedule
TO. Except as amended hereby to the extent specifically provided
herein, all terms of the Offer and all other disclosures set forth
in the Schedule TO and the Exhibits thereto remain unchanged
and are hereby expressly incorporated into this Amendment by
reference. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined in this
Amendment shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the
Schedule TO and the Offer to Purchase.
The Schedule TO is hereby amended and supplemented as follows:
Items 1 through Item 11
1. Items 1 through 11 of the Schedule TO are hereby amended and
supplemented by adding the following:
“The Offer and the withdrawal rights expired as scheduled at
midnight, New York City time, on Friday, May 20, 2022.
Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the depositary
for the Offer has advised the Offeror that, as of such time, a
total of 2,213,597 Shares were validly tendered and not properly
withdrawn, representing approximately 3.1% of the outstanding
Shares (based on 66,852,050 Shares outstanding as of April 29,
2022, as disclosed by the Company in its Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended
March 31, 2022). Of the Shares tendered, 726,010 Shares were
tendered pursuant to guaranteed delivery procedures. Promptly after
the Expiration Date, all Shares that were validly tendered and not
properly withdrawn pursuant to the Offer have been accepted for
payment by the Offeror. The Offeror will promptly pay for all such
Shares in accordance with the terms of the Offer. On May 23,
2022, the Offeror issued a press release announcing the expiration
and results of the Offer. The full text of the press release is
attached as Exhibit (a)(1)(YY) hereto and is incorporated herein by
reference.”
Item 12. Exhibits.
Item 12 of the Schedule TO is hereby amended and supplemented by
adding the following exhibits thereto:
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Press Release, dated May 23, 2022 (filed
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