SEC Form 4
FORM 4 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
Hodges Julie
(Last) (First) (Middle)
C/O ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, INC.
2701 OLYMPIC BOULEVARD, BUILDING B
(Street)
SANTA MONICA CA 90404
(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Activision Blizzard, Inc. [ ATVI ] 		5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
Director 10% Owner
X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
Chief People Officer
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
10/12/2023
4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
 6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) 2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price
Common Stock, par value $0.000001 per share 10/12/2023 A 10,526(1) A $0 111,731 D
Common Stock, par value $0.000001 per share 10/13/2023 D(2) 35,846(3) D (3) 75,885 D
Common Stock, par value $0.000001 per share 10/13/2023 D(2) 75,885(4) D (4) 0 D
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) 8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) 10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Explanation of Responses:
1. Grant to reporting person of restricted stock units, each representing the right to receive one share of Issuer's common stock, scheduled to vest in equal installments on each of October 12, 2023, October 12, 2025, and October 12, 2026. The 3,509 units that vested on October 12, 2023 were settled as described in footnote 3 below.
2. On October 13, 2023 (the "Transaction Date"), Issuer completed the previously announced transaction with Microsoft Corporation, a Washington corporation ("Microsoft"), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of January 18, 2022 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the "Merger Agreement"), by and among Issuer, Microsoft and Anchorage Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft ("Merger Sub"), providing for the merger of Merger Sub with and into Issuer (the "Merger"), with Issuer surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft.
3. Reflects the disposition pursuant to the Merger Agreement, as of the effective time of the Merger (the "Effective Time"), of the following Issuer securities for $95.00 in cash per share/unit (less any applicable withholding taxes, in the case of units): (a) 32,337 shares of common stock and (b) 3,509 restricted stock units that vested on October 12, 2023 as described in footnote 1.
4. Reflects the disposition pursuant to the Merger Agreement, as of the Effective Time, of the following Issuer securities: (a) 42,909 restricted stock units (the "Assumed RSUs") and (b) 32,976 performance-vesting restricted stock units (the "Assumed PSUs"), in each case that were converted into a number of time-based vesting restricted stock units of Microsoft equal to the product (rounded down to the nearest whole share) of (i) the number of Assumed RSUs or Assumed PSUs (determined based on target performance levels), as applicable, multiplied by (ii) a fraction, (A) the numerator of which was $95.00 and (B) the denominator of which was the volume weighted average price per share of Microsoft common stock on NASDAQ for the five consecutive trading days ending with the last trading day ending immediately prior to the Transaction Date.
Remarks:
/s/ Julie Hodges 10/16/2023
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
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