Convertible Senior Notes, Warrants and Hedges

Convertible Notes Offering

On October 29, 2015, the Company priced its private offering of $325 million in aggregate principal amount of 0.875% Convertible Senior Notes due 2022 ("Initial Convertible Notes"). On November 3, 2015, the initial purchasers in such offering exercised in full the over-allotment option to purchase an additional $48.8 million in aggregate principal amount of Convertible Notes (“Additional Convertible Notes”, and together “Convertible Notes”). The aggregate principal amount of Convertible Notes is $373.8 million. The net proceeds from this offering were approximately $363.4 million, after deducting the initial purchasers’ discounts and commissions and the offering expenses. The Company used approximately $37.4 million of the net proceeds to pay the cost of the Bond Hedges described below (after such cost was partially offset by the proceeds to the Company from the Warrant Transactions described below). The Company used a portion of the remaining net proceeds from the offering to purchase an aggregate of $300 million of its common stock, as authorized under its share repurchase program. The Company used $75.0 million under the currently approved repurchase authorization to purchase shares of common stock from a purchaser of the Convertible Notes in a privately negotiated transaction concurrent with the closing of the offering, and $225 million to purchase additional shares of common stock under the ASR Agreements. The Company intends to use the remainder of the net proceeds for working capital and general corporate purposes.

The Convertible Notes are governed by the terms of an indenture, dated November 4, 2015 (“Indenture”), between the Company and Wilmington Trust, National Association (“Trustee”). The Convertible Notes are the senior unsecured obligations of the Company and bear interest at a rate of 0.875% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing May 15, 2016. The Convertible Notes will mature on November 15, 2022, unless earlier repurchased or converted. At any time prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding August 15, 2022, holders may convert their Convertible Notes at their option only under the following circumstances: (1) during any fiscal quarter commencing after the fiscal quarter ending on April 3, 2016 (and only during such fiscal quarter), if the last reported sale price of the common stock for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during a period of 30 consecutive trading days ending on the last trading day of the immediately preceding fiscal quarter is greater than or equal to 130% of the conversion price on each applicable trading day; (2) during the five business day period after any five consecutive trading day period (the “measurement period”) in which the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes for each trading day of the measurement period was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price of the common stock and the conversion rate on each such trading day; or (3) upon the occurrence of specified corporate events. On or after August 15, 2022 until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date, holders may convert their notes at any time, regardless of the foregoing circumstances.

Upon conversion, the Company will pay or deliver, as the case may be, cash, shares of common stock or a combination of cash and shares of common stock, at the Company’s election. Holders will not receive any additional cash payment or additional shares of the Company's common stock representing accrued and unpaid interest, if any, upon conversion of a Convertible Note, except in limited circumstances. Instead, interest will be deemed to be paid by the cash and shares, if any, of the Company’s common stock paid or delivered, as the case may be, to such holder upon conversion of a Convertible Note.

The conversion rate for the Convertible Notes will initially be 29.8920 shares of common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes, which corresponds to an initial conversion price of approximately $33.45 per share of common stock. The conversion rate is subject to adjustment from time to time upon the occurrence of certain events, including, but not limited to, the issuance of certain stock dividends on common stock, the issuance of certain rights or warrants, subdivisions, combinations, distributions of capital stock, indebtedness, or assets, the payment of cash dividends and certain issuer tender or exchange offers.

The Company may not redeem the Convertible Notes prior to the maturity date and no sinking fund is provided for the Convertible Notes, which means that the Company is not required to periodically redeem or retire the Convertible Notes. Upon the occurrence of certain fundamental changes involving the Company, holders of the Convertible Notes may require the Company to repurchase for cash all or part of their Convertible Notes in principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Convertible Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the fundamental change repurchase date.

The Indenture does not contain any financial or operating covenants or restrictions on the payments of dividends, the incurrence of indebtedness or the issuance or repurchase of securities by the Company or any of its subsidiaries. The Indenture contains customary terms and covenants and events of default. If an event of default (other than certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization involving the Company) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by notice to the Company, or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Convertible Notes by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may declare 100% of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all the Convertible Notes to be due and payable. Upon such a declaration of acceleration, such principal and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, will be due and payable immediately. Upon the occurrence of certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization involving the Company, 100% of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all of the Convertible Notes will become due and payable automatically. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Indenture provides that, to the extent the Company elects, the sole remedy for an event of default relating to certain failures by the Company to comply with certain reporting covenants in the Indenture consists exclusively of the right to receive additional interest on the Convertible Notes. As of April 3, 2016, none of the conditions allowing holders of the Notes to convert had been met.

In accordance with ASC 470-20, Debt with Conversion and Other Options, the Company separated the Convertible Notes into liability and equity components. The carrying amount of the liability component was calculated by measuring the estimated fair value of a similar liability that does not have an associated convertible feature. Such amount was based on the contractual cash flows discounted at an appropriate market rate for non-convertible debt at the date of issuance, which was determined to be 5.5%. The carrying amount of the equity component representing the conversion option was determined by deducting the fair value of the liability component from the face value of the Convertible Notes as a whole. The excess of the principal amount of the liability component over its carrying amount ("debt discount") is amortized to interest expense over the term of the Convertible Notes using the effective interest method with an effective interest rate of 5.5% per annum. The equity component is not remeasured as long as it continues to meet the conditions for equity classification.

In accordance with ASU No. 2015-03, the Company allocated the total transaction costs related to the Convertible Note issuance to the liability and equity components based on their relative values. Issuance costs attributable to the $274.4 million liability component are being amortized to expense over the term of the Convertible Notes, and issuance costs attributable to the $99.3 million equity component are included along with the equity component in stockholders' equity.

At the debt issuance date, the Convertible Notes, net of issuance costs, consist of the following (in thousands):



	November 3, 2015
Liability component
Principal	$	274,435
Less: Issuance cost	(7,568		)
Net carrying amount	266,867
Equity component
Allocated amount	99,316
Less: Issuance cost	(2,738		)
Net carrying amount	96,578
Convertible Notes, net	$	363,445

The following table includes total interest expense recognized related to the Convertible Notes for the year ended April 3, 2016 (in thousands):



	Fiscal Year Ended April 3, 2016
Contractual interest expense	$	1,363
Amortization of debt issuance costs	450
Amortization of debt discount	4,904
	$	6,717

The net liability component of Convertible Notes is comprised of the following as of April 3, 2016 (in thousands):



	April 3, 2016
Net carrying amount at issuance date	$	266,867
Amortization of debt issuance costs during the year	450
Amortization of debt discount during the year	4,904
	$	272,221

See Note 6 to the Company's consolidated financial statements for fair value disclosures related to the Company's Convertible Notes.

Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Transactions

In connection with the pricing of the Convertible Notes, on October 29, 2015, the Company entered into convertible note hedge transaction (the "Initial Bond Hedge"), with JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association (the “Option Counterparty”) and paid $81.9 million.

On October 29, 2015, the Company also entered into separate warrant transaction (the "Initial Warrant Transaction") with the Option Counterparty and received $49.4 million.

In connection with the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option, on November 3, 2015, the Company entered into a convertible note hedge transaction (the “Additional Bond Hedge”, and together with the Initial Bond Hedges, the “Bond Hedge”) with the Option Counterparty and paid $12.3 million. On November 3, 2015, the Company also entered into a separate additional warrant transaction (the “Additional Warrant Transaction”, and together with the Initial Warrant Transaction, the “Warrant Transactions”) with the Option Counterparty and received $7.4 million. Total amount paid for the purchase of bond hedge and total amount received for the sale of warrants was $94.2 million and $56.8 million, respectively.

The Bond Hedges are generally expected to reduce the potential dilution upon conversion of the Convertible Notes and/or offset any payments in cash, shares of common stock or a combination of cash and shares of common stock, at the Company’s election, that the Company is required to make in excess of the principal amount of the Convertible Notes upon conversion of any Convertible Notes, as the case may be, in the event that the market price per share of common stock, as measured under the terms of the Bond Hedges, is greater than the strike price ($33.45) of the Bond Hedges, which initially corresponds to the conversion price of the Convertible Notes and is subject to anti-dilution adjustments substantially similar to those applicable to the conversion rate of the Convertible Notes. The Warrant Transactions will separately have a dilutive effect to the extent that the market value per share of common stock, as measured under the terms of the Warrant Transactions, exceeds the applicable strike price of the warrants issued pursuant to the Warrant Transactions (the “Warrants”). The initial strike price of the Warrants is $48.66 per share. The Bond Hedges and Warrants are not marked to market. The value of the Bond Hedges and Warrants were initially recorded in stockholders' equity and continue to be classified as stockholders' equity in accordance with ASC 815-40, Derivatives and Hedging - Contracts in Entity's Own Equity. As of April 3, 2016, no warrants have been exercised.

Aside from the initial payment of a premium to the Option Counterparty under the Bond Hedges, which amount is partially offset by the receipt of a premium under the Warrant Transactions, the Company is not required to make any cash payments to the Option Counterparty under the Bond Hedges and will not receive any proceeds if the Warrants are exercised.