October 1, 2013
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F. Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Attention: Jeffrey P. Riedler
Re: | Perrigo Company Limited |
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-4 |
Filed September 13, 2013 |
File No. 333-190859 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter responds to the letter, dated September 26, 2013, to Todd W. Kingma, Esq., Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Perrigo Company, from the staff (the Staff) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) regarding the above-referenced amendment to the registration statement on Form S-4 (the Registration Statement) filed with the Commission on September 13, 2013 by Perrigo Company Limited (Perrigo or the Company). Perrigo is delivering with this letter 5 courtesy copies of Amendment No. 3 to the Form S-4, filed on the date hereof (Amendment No. 3), marked to show the revisions Perrigo has made in response to the Staffs comments, as well as certain other changes to the Registration Statement. For your convenience, we have reproduced the Staffs comments below and provided a response below each comment. Capitalized terms used in this letter and not otherwise defined have the meanings assigned to such terms in Amendment No. 1.
1. | We note your response to our prior comment 1. However, we also note that the fairness opinions provided by Barclays, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, as included in Annexes E, F and G, as well as the related disclosure in the registration statement appearing at pages 77, 83, and 97, continue to include inappropriate disclaimers with respect to the fairness opinions provided. In particular, the Barclays opinion and related disclosure states that Barclays assumed no responsibility for and expressed no view as to any projections or estimates or the assumptions on which they are based. While it may be acceptable to include qualifying language concerning subjective analyses, it is inappropriate to disclaim responsibility for statements made in the opinion. Similarly, the Citigroup and Morgan Stanley opinions and related disclosure state that the financial advisors assume or accept |
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no responsibility to any persons other than the Elan board of directors with respect to the contents or issuance of the fairness opinion. This language represents an inappropriate limitation on reliance in the fairness opinions provided. Please revise the fairness opinions and accompanying disclosure in the registration statement to delete the specific disclaimers and limitations cited above. |
Response:
In Amendment No. 3, the disclosure has been revised on pages 78, 84 and 98 and in the opinions included as Annexes E, F and G as requested by the Staff.
In addition to the above response to the Staffs comments, the Company acknowledges that:
| the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing and the Staffs declaring the filing effective does not relieve the Company of this responsibility; |
| Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and |
| the Company may not assert Staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. |
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If you have additional questions or require any additional information with respect to the Registration Statement or this letter, please do not hesitate to contact me at (212) 558-4000 or veeraraghavank@sullcrom.com or Matthew G. Hurd at (212) 558-4000 or hurdm@sullcrom.com.
Very truly yours, |
/s/ Krishna Veeraraghavan |
Krishna Veeraraghavan |
cc: | Todd W. Kingma |
(Perrigo Company) |
Christopher T. Cox |
Gregory P. Patti, Jr. |
(Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP) |
Matthew G. Hurd |
(Sullivan & Cromwell LLP) |
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