0000899243-23-020341.txt : 20231114 0000899243-23-020341.hdr.sgml : 20231114 20231114071508 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000899243-23-020341 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20231109 FILED AS OF DATE: 20231114 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20231114 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001618921 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES [5912] STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0831 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-16671 FILM NUMBER: 231401560 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 108 WILMOT ROAD CITY: DEERFIELD STATE: IL ZIP: 60015 BUSINESS PHONE: (847) 315-2500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 108 WILMOT ROAD CITY: DEERFIELD STATE: IL ZIP: 60015 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Walgreens Boots Alliance Holdings LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001669077 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0831 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-16671 FILM NUMBER: 231401559 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 108 WILMOT ROAD CITY: DEERFIELD STATE: IL ZIP: 60015 BUSINESS PHONE: 8473152500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 108 WILMOT ROAD CITY: DEERFIELD STATE: IL ZIP: 60015 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Cencora, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001140859 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: WHOLESALE-DRUGS PROPRIETARIES & DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES [5122] IRS NUMBER: 233079390 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1 WEST FIRST AVENUE CITY: CONSHOHOCKEN STATE: PA ZIP: 19428 BUSINESS PHONE: 6107277000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1 WEST FIRST AVENUE CITY: CONSHOHOCKEN STATE: PA ZIP: 19428 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20010517 4 1 doc4.xml FORM 4 SUBMISSION X0508 4 2023-11-09 0 0001140859 Cencora, Inc. COR 0001618921 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. 108 WILMOT ROAD DEERFIELD IL 60015 0 0 1 0 0001669077 Walgreens Boots Alliance Holdings LLC C/O 108 WILMOT ROAD DEERFIELD IL 60015 0 0 1 0 0 Common Stock 2023-11-09 4 S 0 1279590 195.375 D 30489956 I See footnotes Forward sale contract (obligation to sell) 2023-11-09 4 J 1 540000 A Common Stock 540000 540000 I See footnotes Forward sale contract (obligation to sell) 2023-11-09 4 J 1 540000 A Common Stock 540000 540000 I See footnotes Forward sale contract (obligation to sell) 2023-11-09 4 J 1 1080000 A Common Stock 1080000 1080000 I See footnotes Forward sale contract (obligation to sell) 2023-11-09 4 J 1 540000 A Common Stock 540000 540000 I See footnotes Represents a sale in a private transaction to the Issuer by WBA Holdings. On November 9, 2023, Walgreens Boots Alliance Holdings LLC ("Counterparty"), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (the "Reporting Person"), entered into variable pre-paid forward sale contracts (the "Contracts") with four unaffiliated financial institutions. The Contracts obligate Counterparty to deliver to the financial institutions in the aggregate up to 2,700,000 shares of common stock ("Common Stock") of Cencora, Inc. (or, at Counterparty's election, an equivalent amount of cash based on the volume-weighted average price of the Common Stock) over a valuation period and may entitle Counterparty to an additional cash payment in respect of each valuation date of the Contracts. In exchange for assuming these obligations, Counterparty received cash payments from the financial institutions in an aggregate amount of approximately $423.9 million on or about the date of entering into the Contracts. [continued from FN (2)] Counterparty also pledged 2,700,000 shares of Common Stock (the "Pledged Shares") in the aggregate to the financial institutions or their affiliates to secure its obligations under the Contracts and retained certain dividend and voting rights on the Pledged Shares. In respect of each valuation date under the Contracts, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock to be delivered to the financial institutions or cash to be delivered to (or by) the financial institutions is to be determined as follows: Counterparty may, at its election, subject to certain conditions (1) be obligated to deliver to the financial institutions the full number of shares to which such valuation date relates and will receive an additional cash payment determined as follows: [continued from FN (3)] (a) if the volume-weighted average price of the Common Stock on such valuation date (the "Reference Price") is less than or equal to $173.8838 (the "Floor Price"), the additional cash payment would be zero, (b) if the Reference Price is greater than the Floor Price but less than or equal to $224.6813 (the "Cap Price"), the additional cash payment would equal the number of shares of Common Stock to which such valuation date relates multiplied by the excess of the Reference Price over the Floor Price and (c) if the Reference Price is greater than the Cap Price, the additional cash payment would equal the number of shares of Common Stock to which such valuation date relates multiplied by the excess of the Cap Price over the Floor Price. Alternatively, (2) Counterparty may elect, subject to certain conditions, to not receive any additional cash payment and be obligated to deliver to the financial institutions in the aggregate a number of shares of Common Stock [continued from FN (4)] (or the cash value thereof at the Reference Price) determined as follows: (a) if the Reference Price is less than or equal to the Floor Price, the full number of shares to which such valuation date relates, (b) if the Reference Price is greater than the Floor Price but less than or equal to the Cap Price, a number of shares of Common Stock having a value (based on the Reference Price) equal to the number of shares of Common Stock to which such valuation date relates multiplied by the Floor Price and (c) if the Reference Price is greater than the Cap Price, a number of shares of Common Stock having a value (based on the Reference Price) equal to the number of shares of Common Stock to which such valuation date relates multiplied by the sum of the Floor Price and the excess of the Reference Price over the Cap Price. The Contracts are scheduled to mature evenly over a series of 20 valuation dates from June 1, 2026 to June 29, 2026, inclusive. As previously disclosed, including in the Schedule 13D filed by Walgreen Co. ("Walgreens") and others on April 15, 2014, as amended on January 16, 2015, January 25, 2016, March 22, 2016, August 25, 2016, November 14, 2016, January 6, 2021, June 3, 2021, May 12, 2022, August 4, 2022, November 9, 2022, December 12, 2022, May 15, 2023, June 20, 2023, August 7, 2023 and November 14, 2023, the Form 8-K filed by the Issuer on March 20, 2013, the Form 8-K filed by Walgreens on March 20, 2013, the Form 8-K filed by the Reporting Person on June 4, 2021 and the Form 8-K filed by the Issuer on June 2, 2021, the shares referenced in this Form 4 were acquired in accordance with the Framework Agreement, dated as of March 18, 2013 among Walgreens, Alliance Boots GmbH and the Issuer (the "Framework Agreement"). These Contracts are held by Counterparty. As described in the Schedule 13D, as amended, WBA Investments, Inc., a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of the Reporting Person and the sole member of Counterparty, may also be deemed to beneficially own the securities reported in this Form 4. /s/ Joseph B. Amsbary, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary of Reporting Person 2023-11-14 /s/ Joseph B. Amsbary, Senior Vice President and Secretary of Counterparty 2023-11-14