FORM 6-K

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Report of Foreign Private Issuer

 

Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

March 03, 2020

 

Commission File Number 001-31335
  .
  AU Optronics Corp.
  (Translation of registrant’s name into English)
   
  No. 1 Li-Hsin Road 2
  Hsinchu Science Park
  Hsinchu, Taiwan
  (Address of principal executive offices)
     

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Item

 

1. Taiwan Stock Exchange filing entitled, “The Company announces that all conditions of the tender offer of the common shares of ADLINK Technology Inc. have been satisfied.”, dated March 3, 2020.

 

Signatures

 

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.

 

  AU Optronics Corp.

Date: March 3, 2020 By: /s/ Benjamin Tseng
    Name: Benjamin Tseng
    Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

 

Item 1 

 

AU Optronics Corp.

March 3, 2020

English Language Summary

 

Subject: The Company announces that all conditions of the tender offer of the common shares of ADLINK Technology Inc. have been satisfied.

 

Regulation: Published pursuant to Article 4-38 of the Taiwan Stock Exchange's Operating Procedures for the Publication of Material Information by Listed Companies

 

Date of events: 2020/03/03

 

Contents:

 

1. Date of occurrence of the event:2020/03/03

 

2. Cause:

 

The Company launched a tender offer of the common shares of ADLINK Technology Inc. (“ADLINK”). As of 03/03/2020, the accumulated tendered shares have reached 11,033,441 shares, exceeding the minimum amount of 10,874,863 shares (representing 5.0% of the total issued and outstanding share capital of the ADLINK (equal to 217,497,257 shares including 14,707,559 shares of private placements) as shown in the system of commercial and industry registration profile of the Department of Commerce, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (last updated on November 19, 2019)). Thus, all the conditions of this tender offer have been satisfied. This public announcement is made pursuant to Subparagraph 2, Paragraph 2, Article 19 of the Regulations Governing Public Tender Offers for Securities of Public Companies.

 

3. Countermeasures:

 

The tender offer of ADLINK's common shares will continue until 3:30 PM on 03/12/2020. A reminder to ADLINK shareholders with intent on participating in the tender offer, please bring your securities passbook and authorized seal to the brokerage where you open the securities account to complete the application to participate the tender offer. For further information, please contact the tender offer agent KGI Securities Co. at (02)2389-2999, or check the website http://www.kgieworld.com.tw/.

 

4. Any other matters provided by the Securities and Futures Bureau, Financial Supervisory Commission:

 

(1) Pursuant to Paragraph 4, Article 19 of the Regulations Governing Public Tender Offers for Securities of Public Companies, after the conditions of the public tender offer have been satisfied, if the offeror does not complete the payment by the time for payment of the tender offer consideration as specified in the prospectus, the offeree may, without issuing any notice of payment due, terminate the contract at its sole discretion. The mandated institution shall, on the following business day, return to the offeree the securities deposited by the offeree. However, if the time to return the securities to the offeree, as specified in the prospectus, is earlier than the time for payment of tender offer consideration, such stipulation shall govern.

 

(2) Pursuant to Paragraph 6, Article 19 of the Regulations Governing Public Tender Offers for Securities of Public Companies, after this announcement is published, unless the law permits otherwise, the offeree cannot revoke its offer to sell.

 

(3) While the number of the shares tendered has exceeded the minimum amount, unless the tendered shares are deemed void ab initio due to provisional remedies proceedings such as provisional attachment or provisional injunction, or enforcement proceedings, or other restrictions on transfer, or the tender offer is suspended after approval of the competent authority, the settlement and payment of the consideration for this tender offer will be handled within five business days(including the fifth business day) after the expiration of the tender offer period.

 

 

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