Magna Recommends Rejection of "Mini-Tender" Offer
09 August 2024 - 8:00PM
Magna International Inc. (TSX: MG; NYSE: MGA) today reported that
it has received notice of an unsolicited mini-tender offer made by
TRC Capital Investment Corporation (“TRC Capital”) to purchase up
to 2,000,000 Magna Common Shares, or less than 1% of Magna’s
outstanding Common Shares, at a price of CDN $57.90 per share.
Magna cautions shareholders that the mini-tender offer has been
made at a price below recent market prices, representing a discount
of 4.49% to the closing price of Magna’s Common Shares on the
Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) on July 29, 2024, the last trading
day before the mini-tender offer commenced. Although the offering
price represents a premium of 7.58% to yesterday’s closing price of
Magna Common Shares on the TSX of CDN $53.82, the offer is highly
conditional. TRC Capital’s offer states that it may withdraw its
offer if, among other things, the market price of Magna Common
Shares falls below CDN $57.58, for reference, the closing price on
the TSX for Magna Common Shares on August 8, 2024, was CDN $53.82,
which is already below this threshold; additionally, TRC Capital’s
offer is not fully funded and is conditioned upon receipt of
necessary financing on terms it deems reasonable in its sole
discretion.
Magna does not endorse TRC Capital’s unsolicited mini-tender
offer, is not affiliated or associated in any way with TRC Capital,
and unequivocally recommends shareholders reject the TRC Capital
offer.
TRC Capital has made many similar unsolicited mini-tender offers
for shares of other public companies. Mini-tender offers typically
seek to acquire less than 5% of a company’s outstanding shares,
thereby avoiding many disclosure and procedural requirements
applicable to formal take-over bids and tender offers under
Canadian and United States securities legislation. Both the
Canadian Securities Administrators (“CSA”) and the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recommend that investors exercise
caution with mini-tender offers and have expressed serious concerns
about mini-tender offers, including the possibility that investors
might tender to such offers without understanding the offer price
relative to the current market price of their securities.
Comments from the CSA on mini-tenders can be found on the
Ontario Securities Commission website at:
https://www.osc.ca/en/securities-law/instruments-rules-policies/6/61-301/csa-staff-notice-61-301-staff-guidance-practice-mini-tenders.
The SEC investor advisory regarding mini-tender offers can be
found at:http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/minitend.htm.
Magna urges shareholders to obtain current market quotations for
their shares, consult with their broker or financial advisor and
exercise caution with respect to TRC Capital’s offer. Magna
recommends that shareholders who have not responded to TRC
Capital’s mini-tender offer take no action. Shareholders who have
already tendered their shares should seek to withdraw them.
According to TRC Capital's offer documents, Magna shareholders who
deposit their shares in acceptance of the offer may withdraw their
shares at any time before August 30, 2024, by following the
procedures described in TRC Capital’s offer documents.
Magna requests that a copy of this press release be included
with all distributions of materials relating to TRC Capital’s
mini-tender offer related to Magna Common Shares.
INVESTOR CONTACTLouis Tonelli, Vice-President,
Investor Relations louis.tonelli@magna.com │ 905.726.7035
MEDIA CONTACT Tracy Fuerst, Vice-President,
Corporate Communications & PR tracy.fuerst@magna.com │
248.761.7004
OUR BUSINESS(1)Magna is more than one of the
world’s largest suppliers in the automotive space. We are a
mobility technology company built to innovate, with a global,
entrepreneurial-minded team of over 179,000(2) employees across 343
manufacturing operations and 105 product development, engineering
and sales centres spanning 28 countries. With 65+ years of
expertise, our ecosystem of interconnected products combined with
our complete vehicle expertise uniquely positions us to advance
mobility in an expanded transportation landscape.
For further information about Magna (NYSE:MGA; TSX:MG), please
visit www.magna.com or follow us on social.
(1) Manufacturing operations, product
development, engineering and sales centres include certain
operations accounted for under the equity method.(2) Number of
employees includes over 168,000 employees at our wholly owned or
controlled entities and over 11,000 employees at certain operations
accounted for under the equity method.
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