-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, A0doNiOnZroR/1qGEFbW7Hxcq09vKrHK0eXcV/q6RoKmVp5mTwSKvI0cnPAAaU6S arNDKkAHsWXrkMFycx5e4A== 0001104659-07-077311.txt : 20071026 0001104659-07-077311.hdr.sgml : 20071026 20071026142044 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-07-077311 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: SC TO-I/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 FILED AS OF DATE: 20071026 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20071026 SUBJECT COMPANY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BAUSCH & LOMB INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000010427 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: OPHTHALMIC GOODS [3851] IRS NUMBER: 160345235 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NY FISCAL YEAR END: 1226 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: SC TO-I/A SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 005-20467 FILM NUMBER: 071193079 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED STREET 2: ONE BAUSCH & LOMB PLACE CITY: ROCHESTER STATE: NY ZIP: 14604-2701 BUSINESS PHONE: 5853386000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE BAUSCH & LOMB PLACE STREET 2: P O BOX 54 CITY: ROCHESTER STATE: NY ZIP: 14604-2701 FILED BY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BAUSCH & LOMB INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000010427 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: OPHTHALMIC GOODS [3851] IRS NUMBER: 160345235 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NY FISCAL YEAR END: 1226 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: SC TO-I/A BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED STREET 2: ONE BAUSCH & LOMB PLACE CITY: ROCHESTER STATE: NY ZIP: 14604-2701 BUSINESS PHONE: 5853386000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE BAUSCH & LOMB PLACE STREET 2: P O BOX 54 CITY: ROCHESTER STATE: NY ZIP: 14604-2701 SC TO-I/A 1 a07-27663_1sctoia.htm SC TO-I

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

SCHEDULE TO
(Amendment No. 3)

 

TENDER OFFER STATEMENT UNDER SECTION 14(d)(1) OR 13(e)(1)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED
(Name of Subject Company (Issuer) and Filing Person (Issuer))

 

2004 Senior Convertible Securities due 2023

Floating Rate Convertible Senior Notes due 2023
(Title of Class of Securities)

 

071707AM5 and 071707AK9
(CUSIP Number of Class of Securities)

 


 

Robert B. Stiles, Esq.

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

One Bausch & Lomb Place

Rochester, New York 14604

(583) 338-1600

(Name, address and telephone number of person authorized to receive notices and

communications on behalf of filing person)

 


 

With a Copy to:

 

David Lopez, Esq.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

One Liberty Plaza

New York, New York 10006

(212) 225-2000

 


 

CALCULATION OF FILING FEE

 

Transaction valuation*

 

Amount of filing fee

 

$196,597,000

 

 

$6,035.53

 


*

 

The transaction value shown is only for the purpose of calculating the filing fee. The amount shown assumes that $155,902,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2004 Senior Convertible Securities due 2023 are purchased at the offer price of $1,216.14 per $1,000 principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest up to but excluding October 19, 2007 and that $4,098,000 aggregate principal amount of the Floating Rate Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 are purchased at the offer price of $1,216.14 per $1,000 principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest up to but excluding October 19, 2007. The amount of the filing fee, calculated in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Fee Rate Advisory No. 6 for fiscal year 2007, equals $30.70 per million of the transaction valuation.

 

x          Check box if any part of the fee is offset as provided by Rule 0-11(a)(2) and identify the filing with which the offsetting fee was previously paid. Identify the previous filing by registration statement number, or the Form or Schedule and the date of its filing.

 

Amount Previously Paid: $6,035.53

 

Filing Party: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

Form or Registration No.: Schedule TO-I
(File No. 005-20467)

 

Date Filed: September 20, 2007

 

o            Check the box if the filing relates solely to preliminary communications made before commencement of a tender offer.

 

Check the appropriate boxes below to designate any transactions to which the statement relates:

o            third-party tender offer subject to Rule 14d-1.

 

x          issue tender offer subject to Rule 13e-4.

 

o            going-private transaction subject to Rule 13e-3.

 

o            amendment to Schedule 13D under Rule 13d-2.

 

Check the following box if the filing is a final amendment reporting the results of the tender offer: x

 

 



 

This Amendment No. 3 to the Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO (this “Amendment”) amends and supplements the Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO originally filed by Bausch & Lomb Incorporated, a New York corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on September 20, 2007, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to the Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO filed by the Company with the Commission on October 9, 2007 and Amendment No. 2 to the Tender Offer Statement on Scheduled TO filed by the Company with the Commission on October 18, 2007 (as so amended, the “Schedule TO”), in connection with the offers (the “Offers”) by the Company to purchase for cash any and all of the Company’s outstanding 2004 Senior Convertible Securities due 2023 and Floating Rate Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (together, the “Securities”). The Offers were made on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement for the Securities dated as of September 19, 2007, as amended as of October 9, 2007, and the related Letter of Transmittal and Consent dated as of September 19, 2007.

 

Except as provided herein, this Amendment does not alter the terms and conditions previously set forth in the Schedule TO, and should be read in conjunction with the Schedule TO, including all exhibits filed therewith.

 

 

ITEM 11.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

 

On October 26, 2007 the Company issued a press release announcing the final results of the tender offers and consent solicitations, which expired at 8:00 a.m., New York City time, on October 26, 2007. A copy of the press release is filed herewith as an exhibit to this Schedule TO and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

ITEM 12.

 

EXHIBITS.

 

Item 12 of the Schedule TO is hereby amended and supplemented by adding the following exhibit:

 

(a)(1)(v) Press Release issued by the Company on October 26, 2007.

 

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SIGNATURE

 

After due inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

 

BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Efrain Rivera

 

 

 

Name:  Efrain Rivera

 

 

Title:    Senior Vice President & Chief Financial
             Officer

 

Dated:  October 26, 2007

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit Number

 

Description

(a)(1)(i)

 

Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement dated September 19, 2007, as amended as of October 9, 2007.*

(a)(1)(ii)

 

Letter of Transmittal and Consent.*

(a)(1)(iii)

 

Press Release issued by the Company on September 19, 2007.*

(a)(1)(iv)

 

Press Release issued by the Company on October 18, 2007.*

(a)(1)(v)

 

Press Release issued by the Company on October 26, 2007.**

(b)

 

None.

(d)(1)

 

Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on August 14, 2007 (incorporated herein by reference).

(d)(2)

 

Proxy Statement Supplements filed with the SEC on August 31, 2007 (incorporated herein by reference).

(g)

 

None.

(h)

 

None.

 


*                 Previously filed.

**          Filed herewith.

 

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EX-99.(A)(1)(V) 2 a07-27663_1ex99da1v.htm EX-99.(A)(1)(V)

Exhibit (a)(1)(v)

 

Bausch & Lomb Announces Expiration Of Tender Offers and Consent
Solicitations for its Outstanding Debt Securities and Convertible Debt Securities

 

FOR RELEASE FRIDAY, October 26, 2007

 

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Bausch & Lomb (NYSE: BOL) (the “Company”) today announced the expiration, as of 8:00 a.m., New York City time, on October 26, 2007 (the “Expiration Date”) of its offers to purchase its outstanding 6.95% Senior Notes due 2007, 5.90% Senior Notes due 2008, 6.56% Medium-Term Notes due 2026 and 7.125% Debentures due 2028 (collectively, the “Debt Securities”) and its outstanding 2004 Senior Convertible Securities due 2023 and Floating Rate Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (together, the “Convertible Debt Securities”), all pursuant to its previously announced cash tender offers and consent solicitations for the Debt Securities and the Convertible Debt Securities.

 

The following table sets forth the results of the tender offers and consent solicitations for the Debt Securities and the Convertible Debt Securities as of the Expiration Date:

 

Title of Security

 

CUSIP No.

 

Principal
Amount
Outstanding

Amount of 
Securities
Tendered

 

Approximate
Percentage
Tendered

 

6.95% Senior Notes due 2007

 

071707AH6

 

$

133,195,000

 

$

72,769,000

 

54.63

%

5.90% Senior Notes due 2008

 

071707AL7

 

$

50,000,000

 

$

49,250,000

 

98.50

%

6.56% Medium-Term Notes due 2026

 

07171JAE6

 

$

421,000

 

$

367,000

 

87.17

%

7.125% Debentures due 2028

 

071707AG8

 

$

66,429,000

 

$

54,535,000

 

82.10

%

2004 Senior Convertible Securities due 2023

 

071707AM5

 

$

155,902,000

 

$

155,902,000

 

100.00

%

Floating Rate Convertible Senior Notes due 2023

 

071707AK9

 

$

4,098,000

 

$

4,098,000

 

100.00

%

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. acted as dealer managers for the tender offers and consent solicitations.  Questions regarding the tender offers and consent solicitations may be directed to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. by telephone at (800) 558-3745 (toll-free), Banc of America Securities LLC by telephone at (888) 292-0070 (toll-free) for the Debt Securities and (888) 583-8900 x2200 (toll-free) for the Convertible Debt Securities, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC by telephone at (212) 325-7596 (collect) or J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. by telephone at (212) 270-1477 (collect).

 

Global Bondholder Services was the information agent for the tender offers and consent solicitations.

 

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This news release is for informational purposes only and is not an offer to purchase, a solicitation of an offer to purchase or a solicitation of consent with respect to any securities. The tender offers and consent solicitations were made solely pursuant to the applicable Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement and the related Letter of Transmittal and Consent, which set forth the complete terms of the tender offers and consent solicitations.

 

This news release contains, among other things, certain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to future events or the future business performance of Bausch & Lomb. Such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties including those concerning the ability of the Company and the parties with which it contracts to develop and introduce products successfully as well as the risk factors listed from time to time in the Company’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to filings on the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2006, filed on April 25, 2007, the Company’s Form 12b-25 filed on May 10, 2007 and the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2007, filed on May 30, 2007.

 

Bausch & Lomb is the eye health company dedicated to perfecting vision and enhancing life for consumers around the world. Its core businesses include soft and rigid gas permeable contact lenses and lens care products, and ophthalmic surgical and pharmaceutical products. The Bausch & Lomb name is one of the best known and most respected healthcare brands in the world. Founded in 1853, the Company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and employs approximately 13,000 people worldwide. Its products are available in more than 100 countries. More information about the Company can be found at www.bausch.com.

 

Copyright Bausch & Lomb Incorporated.

 

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