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Note 20 - Subsequent Events
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
Subsequent Events

NOTE 20: SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

On November 7, 2016, the Company, Southeastern Asset Management, Inc. (“Southeastern”) and Longleaf Partners Small-Cap Fund, C2W Partners Master Fund Limited and Deseret Mutual Pension Trust, which are investment funds managed by Southeastern (such investment funds, collectively, the “Purchasers”) entered into a Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) relating to the sale and issuance to the Purchasers of 2,000,000 shares of the Company’s 5.50% Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, no par value per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), for a purchase price of $100 per share, representing $200 million of gross proceeds to the Company.  The Company expects the closing to occur in November 2016.

 

The Company intends to file with the Department of Treasury of the State of New Jersey a Certificate of Amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (the “Certificate of Designations”) which will establish the designation, number of shares, rights, preferences and limitations of the Series A Preferred Stock and will become effective upon filing.  The Series A Preferred Stock will rank senior to the Company’s common stock (“Common Stock”) with respect to dividend rights and rights on liquidation, winding-up and dissolution.  The Series A Preferred Stock will have a liquidation preference of $100 per share, and the holders of Series A Preferred Stock will be entitled to cumulative dividends payable quarterly in cash at a rate of 5.50% per annum.  Holders of Series A Preferred Stock will be entitled to vote together with the holders of the Common Stock as a single class, in each case, on an as-converted basis, except where a separate class vote is required by law.  Holders of Series A Preferred Stock will have certain limited special approval rights, including with respect to the issuance of pari passu or senior equity securities of the Company.  

 

Each share of Series A Preferred Stock will be convertible, at the option of each holder at any time, into shares of Common Stock at the initial conversion rate of 5.7471 (equivalent to an initial conversion price of $17.40 per share of Common Stock). The initial conversion rate and the corresponding conversion price will be subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments as well as a conversion rate adjustment if the Company is obligated to make a cash payment under the settlement agreement relating to the remediation of historical environmental conditions at Eastman Business Park (the “Settlement Agreement”) or establishes a reserve for such an obligation.  The Company has no obligation to make a payment under the Settlement Agreement unless the liabilities associated with the remediation covered by the Settlement Agreement exceed $99 million, in which case the Company will be liable for 50% of the portion above $99 million.  The Company currently has no liability recorded for any obligation under the Settlement Agreement.

 

The Company will have the right to convert Series A Preferred Stock into Common Stock at any time after the second anniversary of the initial issuance, if the closing price of the Common Stock has equaled or exceeded 125 percent of the then-effective conversion price for 45 trading days within a period of 60 consecutive trading days, with the last trading day of such 60 day period ending on the trading day immediately preceding the business day on which the Company issues a press release announcing the mandatory conversion.  Each holder will have the right to convert any shares of Series A Preferred Stock during a specified period in connection with a fundamental change, in which case the conversion rate will be adjusted under certain circumstances and such holder will also be entitled to a payment in respect of accumulated dividends.  In addition, the Company will have the right to require holders to convert any shares of Series A Preferred Stock in connection with certain reorganization events, in which case the conversion rate will be adjusted under certain circumstances and the holders will also be entitled to a payment in respect of accumulated dividends.  If any shares of Series A Preferred Stock have not been converted prior to the fifth anniversary of the initial issuance of the Series A Preferred Stock, the Company will be required to redeem such shares at par plus the amount of accrued and unpaid dividends.

 

The right of the holders of Series A Preferred Stock to convert their shares into Common Stock will be limited to Common Stock representing 19.99% of the outstanding Common Stock on the original issue date of the Series A Preferred Stock until shareholder approval of certain aspects of the Series A Preferred Stock and the transaction has become effective.

 

Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Purchasers will have the right to nominate members to the Company’s board of directors proportional to the Purchasers’ share ownership on an as converted basis, which will initially allow the Purchasers to nominate two members to the board.  If dividends on any Series A Preferred Stock are in arrears for six or more consecutive or non-consecutive dividend periods, the holders of Series A Preferred Stock, voting with holders of all other preferred stock of the Company whose voting rights are then exercisable, will be entitled to vote for the election of two additional directors in the next annual meeting and all subsequent meetings until all accumulated dividends on such Series A Preferred Stock and other voting preferred stock have been paid or set aside.

 

In conjunction with entering into the Purchase Agreement, the Company entered into an amendment to the Amended Credit Agreement that will permit the prepayment of the outstanding term loans under the Senior Secured Second Lien Term Credit Agreement and the payment of cash dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock.