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25 February 2016
Anadigics declares final competing $0.85-per-share Chinese bid a 'superior offer'
Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says that on 23 February II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA submitted a further revised set of proposed amendments to its original 15 January merger agreement to acquire Anadigics for $0.66 per share (which superseded a prior $0.62-per-share deal with GaAs Labs LLC - which had originally offered $0.35 per share on 11 November - leading to II-VI paying a termination fee owed by Anadigics to GaAs Labs). Among the proposed amended terms was an increase in the offer price to $0.81 per share and the extension of a loan to Anadigics.
Previously, an unnamed competing bidder designated 'Party B' initially (on 31 December) made an unsolicited offer of $0.68 per share, before raising its bid on 8 January to $0.70 per share, then $0.75 per share on 19 January, then $0.76 per share on 21 January, then $0.78 on 1 February. However, the proposal failed to include certain material terms and conditions requested by Anadigics. Because Party B is a Chinese company, in order to protect the firm and its stockholders, Anadigics required that, in the event that the closing of the proposed acquisition being delayed or thwarted by the review process to be conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), Party B would make a loan available to Anadigics and/or pay a reverse termination fee. Subsequently, after meeting these terms on 16 February, Party B's acquisition proposal was designated a 'superior offer' (as defined in the II-VI merger agreement). After II-VI on 18 February then raised its offer from $0.66 to $0.73 per share, on 20 February Party B raised its bid from $0.78 to $0.81 per share, which on 22 February was again declared by Anadigics to be a 'superior offer'.
However, on 23 February II-VI's matching bid of $0.81 per share was in turn declared a superior offer. Since then, Party B has submitted a final bid of $0.85 per share before the deadline of 24 February specified by Anadigics.
After consultation with its financial and legal advisors, Anadigics' board of directors has determined that Party B's 24 February $0.85-per-share proposal constitutes a superior offer.
In accordance with the terms of the II-VI merger agreement, Anadigics has notified II-VI of Party B's 24 February proposed agreement and that it has two business days to deliver an acquisition proposal that would cause it to no longer constitute a superior offer. At the close of this two-business-day period, the auction process in which Anadigics' has been engaged since 11 November will terminate and the board will then evaluate the final proposals received.
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Anadigics' board declares competing $0.78 per share Chinese bid a 'superior offer'
Competing Chinese bidder raises offer to acquire Anadigics from $0.76 to $0.78 per share
Competing Chinese bidder raises offer to acquire Anadigics to $0.76 per share
Anadigics sells for $0.66 per share to II-VI Inc; II-VI to pay GaAs Labs termination fee
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