As previously disclosed, on December 7, 2021, Oaktree Acquisition Corp. II, a Cayman Islands exempted company (“OACB” or the “Company”), entered into a Business Combination Agreement (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Business Combination Agreement”), by and among OACB, Alvotech Holdings S.A., a public limited liability company (société anonyme) incorporated and existing under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, having its registered office at 9, rue de Bitbourg, L-1273 Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and registered with the Luxembourg Trade and Company Register (Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés, Luxembourg) under number B229193 (“Alvotech”) and the legal entity named “Alvotech”, previously named Alvotech Lux Holdings S.A.S., a simplified joint stock company (société par actions simplifiée) incorporated and existing under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, having its registered office at 9, rue de Bitbourg, L-1273 Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and registered with the Luxembourg Trade and Company Register (Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés, Luxembourg) under number B258884 (“TopCo”).
Following the entry into the Business Combination Agreement, OACB received two letters (collectively, the “Shareholder Letters”) from purported shareholders of OACB claiming certain allegedly material omissions in its preliminary proxy statement/prospectus (as amended, the “Proxy Statement”), which was included in the registration statement on Form F-4 (the “Registration Statement”) first filed by TopCo with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 20, 2021 relating to the transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement (the “Business Combination”).
While OACB believes that the disclosures set forth in the Proxy Statement comply fully with applicable law, in order to moot the plaintiff’s disclosure claims in the Shareholder Letters, to avoid nuisance, cost and distraction, and to preclude any efforts to delay the closing of the Business Combination, OACB has determined to voluntarily supplement the Proxy Statement with the supplemental disclosures set forth below (the “Supplemental Disclosures”). Nothing in the Supplemental Disclosures shall be deemed an admission of the legal necessity or materiality under applicable laws of any of the disclosures set forth herein. To the contrary, OACB specifically denies all allegations in the Shareholder Letters that any additional disclosure was or is required. OACB believes the Shareholder Letters are without merit.
Supplemental Disclosures to Proxy Statement
The following Supplemental Disclosures should be read in conjunction with the Proxy Statement, which should be read in its entirety. All page references are to pages in the Proxy Statement, and terms used below, unless otherwise defined, have the meanings set forth in the Proxy Statement. Underlined text shows text being added to a referenced disclosure in the Proxy Statement.
The following disclosure replaces the penultimate paragraph on page 151 of the Proxy Statement under the heading “The Background to the Business Combination”:
In the process that led to identifying Alvotech as an attractive investment opportunity, OACB’s management team evaluated over 235 potential business combination targets, entered into non-disclosure agreements with approximately 73 potential business combination targets (other than Alvotech), and submitted non-binding indications of interest or letters of intent with respect to eight potential business combination targets (other than Alvotech). Such non-disclosure agreements contained customary terms for a special purpose acquisition company and a private company target, including confidentiality provisions and use restrictions for information provided by the target and exceptions to such provisions.
The following disclosure replaces the last paragraph on page 152 of the Proxy Statement under the heading “The Background to the Business Combination”:
On May 11, 2021, May 18, 2021, May 21, 2021, May 25, 2021, and May 26, 2021 OACB’s management, and representatives of Deutsche Bank, held various telephone conversations to discuss the Alvotech business and financial forecast. In the past, Deutsche Bank and Citi served as underwriters of OACB’s IPO, but neither have provided prior services to Alvotech. Deutsche Bank is serving as financial advisor and capital markets advisor to OACB in connection with the Business Combination. Each of Deutsche Bank and Citi are eligible to receive $4,375,000 in deferred underwriting compensation, which is contingent upon the consummation of the Business Combination. Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse are serving as financial advisors to Alvotech in connection with the Business Combination. Neither Morgan Stanley nor Credit Suisse have provided prior services to OACB or Alvotech. Alvotech formally engaged Credit Suisse on August 2, 2021 and Morgan Stanley on August 5, 2021. OACB engaged Deutsche Bank on May 6, 2021. As consideration for rendering such services, Alvotech and OACB agreed with their respective financial advisors, pursuant to engagement letters, to compensate, by way of customary fee arrangements, the financial advisors for their services as a financial advisors in addition to providing expense reimbursement and indemnification. If the Business Combination does not close, the financial advisors will not be entitled to any such fees but will be entitled to expense reimbursement and indemnification pursuant to the terms and conditions of their respective engagement letters.