UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of December 2020.
Commission File Number 001-15148
BRF S.A.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
N/A
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
8501, Av. Das Naçoes Unidas, 1st Floor
Pinheiros – 05425-070, São Paulo – SP
Brazil
(Address of principal executive office)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F [X] Form 40-F [_]
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): [_]
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This Report on Form 6-K, including Exhibit 1 hereto, includes certain forward-looking statements that are based principally on current expectations and on projections of future events and financial trends that currently affect or might affect the Company’s business, and are not guarantees of future performance. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s expectations, which involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are beyond the Company’s control and any of which could cause the Company’s actual financial condition and results of operations to differ materially from those set out in the Company’s forward-looking statements. You are cautioned not to put undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation, and expressly disclaims any obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events or otherwise. The risks and uncertainties relating to the forward-looking statements in this Report on Form 6-K, including Exhibit 1 hereto, include those described under the captions “Forward-Looking Statements” and “Item 3. Key Information —D. Risk Factors” in the Company’s annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2019.
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.
Date:December 23, 2020
BRF S.A.
By: /s/ Carlos Alberto Bezerra de Moura
Name: Carlos Alberto Bezerra de Moura
Title: Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit Description of Exhibit
1 | ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE MARKET |
BRF S.A.
PUBLICLY-HELD COMPANY
CNPJ 01.838.723/0001-27
NIRE 42.300.034.240
CVM 16269-2
ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE MARKET
BRF S.A. (“BRF” or "Company") (B3: BRFS3; NYSE: BRFS), pursuant to the CVM Instruction 358 of January 3, 2002, announces to its shareholders and the market in general, that it received today a notice from Kapitalo Investimentos Ltda. (“Kapitalo”), on behalf of some of its clients and as their investment fund manager, informing that it has sold common shares issued by BRF S.A. and that, on December 22, 2020, their interests in the Company reached, on an aggregated basis, 40,126,298 common shares and American Depositary Receipts, representative of common shares, corresponding to approximately 4.94% of the total common shares issued by the Company.
Kapitalo further declared that (i) the objective of the abovementioned interest is strictly for investment purposes and there is no intention to change the Company’s control nor its management structure; and (ii) no agreement or contract regulating the exercise of voting rights or the purchase and sale of securities issued by the Company has been entered into nor executed by Kapitalo.
The Company stresses that that it does not have a defined shareholding control, being its shares dispersed in the market in general.
The original version of the correspondence received from Kapitalo is filed at the Company’s headquarter.
São Paulo, December 23, 2020.
Carlos Alberto Bezerra de
Moura
Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer
BRF S.A.