When dividends on shares of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock (i) have not been declared and paid in full on any Dividend Payment Date (or, in the case of Parity Stock having dividend payment dates different from such Dividend Payment Dates, on a dividend payment date falling within a regular dividend period related to such Dividend Payment Date), or (ii) have been declared but a sum of cash or number of shares of our common stock sufficient for payment thereof has not been set aside for the benefit of the holders thereof on the applicable Regular Record Date, no dividends may be declared or paid on any shares of Parity Stock unless dividends are declared on the shares of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock such that the respective amounts of such dividends declared on the shares of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock and such shares of Parity Stock shall be allocated pro rata among the holders of the shares of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock and the holders of any shares of Parity Stock then outstanding. For purposes of calculating the pro rata allocation of partial dividend payments, the Company shall allocate those payments so that the respective amounts of those payments for the declared dividend
bear the same ratio to each other as all accumulated and unpaid dividends per share on the shares of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock and all declared and unpaid dividends per share on such shares of Parity Stock bear to each other (subject to their having been declared by our Board, or an authorized committee thereof, out of legally available funds); provided, however, that any unpaid dividends on the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock will continue to accumulate except as described herein. For purposes of this calculation, with respect to non-cumulative Parity Stock, we will use the full amount of dividends that would be payable for the most recent dividend period if dividends were declared in full on such non-cumulative Parity Stock.
The proceeds of this offering will not be deposited into an escrow account. Our ability to pay the Acquisition Termination Make-Whole Amount to holders of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock in connection with a
redemption may be limited by our then-existing financial resources, and following our election, if any, to redeem the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, sufficient funds may not be available when necessary to pay the Acquisition Termination Make-Whole Amount.
Liquidation Preference: In the event of our voluntary or involuntary liquidation, winding-up or dissolution, each holder of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive a liquidation preference in the amount of $50.00 per share of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock (the 「Liquidation Preference」), plus an amount (the 「Liquidation Dividend Amount」) equal to accumulated and unpaid dividends on such shares, whether or not declared, to, but excluding, the date fixed for liquidation, winding-up or dissolution, such amount to be paid out of our assets legally available for distribution to our stockholders, after satisfaction of debt and other liabilities owed to our creditors and holders of shares of any Senior Stock and before any payment or distribution is made to holders of Junior Stock (including our common stock). If, upon our voluntary or involuntary liquidation, winding-up or dissolution, the amounts payable with respect to (1) the Liquidation Preference plus the Liquidation Dividend Amount on the shares of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock and (2) the liquidation preference of, and the amount of accumulated and unpaid dividends (to, but excluding, the date fixed for liquidation, winding-up or dissolution) on, all Parity Stock are not paid in full, the holders of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock and all holders of any such Parity Stock will share equally and ratably in any distribution of our assets in proportion to their respective liquidation preferences and amounts equal to accumulated and unpaid dividends to which they are entitled. After payment to any holder of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock of the full amount of the Liquidation Preference and the Liquidation Dividend Amount for such holder’s shares of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, such holder of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock will have no right or claim to any of our remaining assets.
股權交換、重新分類、合併或整合,或者在( x )與我們不是存續或結果實體的任何此類合併或整合(或強制轉換優先股票以其他方式被交換或重新分類)相關,或(y)任何此類轉換、歸化或轉讓,被轉換或重新分類爲存續或結果實體的優先證券,或被轉換、歸化或轉讓的實體,或者在任何情況下,該實體的最終母公司;並且(ii) 強制轉換優先股票的股份在完成此類交易後仍然存續,或者此類優先證券的股份,視情況而定,具有的權利、偏好和投票權,總體上不對持有人構成重大不利影響,且不低於強制轉換優先股票在完成此類交易前的權利、偏好和投票權;
「VWAP」 per share of our common stock on any Trading Day means the per share volume-weighted average price as displayed on Bloomberg page HPE <equity> AQR (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled close of trading of the primary trading session on such Trading Day (or, if such volume-weighted average price is not available, the market value per share of our common stock on such Trading Day as determined, using a volume-weighted average method, by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained by us for this purpose, which may include any of the underwriters for this offering). The 「Average VWAP」 per share over a certain period means the arithmetic average of the VWAP per share for each Trading Day in the relevant period.
Early Conversion at the Option of the Holder: Other than during a Fundamental Change Conversion Period (as defined below under 「—Conversion at the Option of the Holder upon Fundamental Change; Fundamental Change Dividend Make-Whole Amount」), holders of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock will have the option to convert their Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, in whole or in part (but in no event in increments of less than one share of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock), at any time prior to September 1, 2027 (an 「Early Conversion」), into shares of our common stock at the Minimum Conversion Rate of shares of our common stock per share of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, subject to adjustment as described under 「—Anti-Dilution Adjustments」 below.
If, as of the Conversion Date (as defined below) of any Early Conversion (the 「Early Conversion Date」), we have not declared all or any portion of the accumulated and unpaid dividends for all full dividend periods ending on or prior to the Dividend Payment Date immediately prior to such Early Conversion Date, the conversion rate for such Early Conversion will be adjusted so that holders converting their Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock at such time receive an additional number of shares of our common stock equal to:
ii.除了我們及我們的全資子公司或我們或任何我們的全資子公司的員工福利計劃(或以受託人、代理人或任何此類計劃的其他受託人或管理員身份單獨行事的任何個人或實體)之外,任何"個人"或"集團"(在《證券交易法》第13(d)和14(d)節中使用該術語,無論是否適用)提交 Schedule TO 或任何在《證券交易法》下披露該個人或集團已直接或間接成爲總投票權的"受益所有者"(如《證券交易法》第13d-3條定義)超過50%),這些投票權是根據所有類別累計時的所有普通股致使能夠在我們董事會選舉中進行普遍投票的。
代表可轉換爲普通股的股票的證明書將會簽發並交付給轉換持有人;如果被轉換的強制可轉換優先股是全球形式,則可轉換的普通股將通過DTC的設施交付給轉換持有人,在每種情況下,只有在您支付了所有相關稅款和關稅(如有)後,我們才會向轉換持有人交付他們有權獲得的任何現金,並且這些股份和現金將在以下情況中交付: (i) 強制轉換日期和 (ii) 您全部支付所有相關稅款和關稅的工作日之後(如有)。
碎股: 不會向強制可轉換優先股的持有者在轉換時發放我們普通股的碎股。對於任何持有者的強制可轉換優先股轉換所涉及的普通股總數中,替代任何可能發行的普通股的碎股,該持有者將有權收到現金金額(四捨五入到最接近的分),該金額計算方式爲:(i) 該相同分數;以及 (ii) 在截至適用轉換日期的五個連續的交易日內我們普通股的平均VWAP。如果我們不能用現金支付碎股,則我們將把每位持有者的股份數量四捨五入到最接近的整股,我們不承擔支付該部分現金的義務,該金額也不構成可能被視爲累積在強制可轉換優先股上可分配的累計分紅。
•for accumulated dividends on the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, except as described above under 「—Mandatory Conversion,」 「—Early Conversion at the Option of the Holder」 and “—Conversion at the
Option of the Holder upon Fundamental Change; Fundamental Change Dividend Make-Whole Amount”; or
•as a result of a tender or exchange offer by a person other than us or one or more of our subsidiaries
Except as otherwise provided above, we will be responsible for making all calculations called for under the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock. These calculations include, but are not limited to, determinations of the Fundamental Change Stock Price, the VWAPs, the Average VWAPs and the Fixed Conversion Rates of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock and shall be made in good faith.
We will be required, within ten Business Days after the Fixed Conversion Rates are adjusted, to provide or cause to be provided written notice of the adjustment to the holders of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock. We will also be required to deliver a statement setting forth in reasonable detail the method by which the adjustment to each Fixed Conversion Rate was determined and setting forth each adjusted Fixed Conversion Rate.
For the avoidance of doubt, if an adjustment is made to the Fixed Conversion Rates, no separate inversely proportionate adjustment will be made to the Initial Price or the Threshold Appreciation Price because the Initial Price is equal to $50.00 divided by the Maximum Conversion Rate (as adjusted in the manner described herein) and the Threshold Appreciation Price is equal to $50.00 divided by the Minimum Conversion Rate (as adjusted in the manner described herein).
Whenever the terms of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock require us to calculate the VWAP per share of our common stock over a span of multiple days, our Board or an authorized committee thereof will make appropriate adjustments in good faith (including, without limitation, to the Applicable Market Value, the Early Conversion Average Price, the Fundamental Change Stock Price and the Average Price (as the case may be)) to account for any adjustments to the Fixed Conversion Rates (as the case may be) that become effective, or any event that would require such an adjustment if the ex-date, effective date, record date or expiration date (as the case may be) of such event occurs, during the relevant period used to calculate such prices or values (as the case may be).
•any reclassification of our common stock into securities, including securities other than our common stock; or
•any statutory exchange of our securities with another person (other than in connection with a merger or acquisition or conversion of the Company or domestication in or transfer to a foreign jurisdiction),
in each case, as a result of which our common stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) (each, a 「Reorganization Event」), each share of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock outstanding immediately prior to such Reorganization
Event shall, without the consent of the holders of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, become convertible into the kind of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) that such holder would have been entitled to receive if such holder had converted its Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock into common stock immediately prior to such Reorganization Event (such stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof), the 「Exchange Property,」 with each 「Unit of Exchange Property」 meaning the kind and amount of Exchange Property that a holder of one share of common stock is entitled to receive).
If the transaction causes our common stock to be converted into, or exchanged for, the right to receive more than a single type of consideration (determined based in part upon any form of stockholder election), the Exchange Property into which the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock will be convertible will be deemed to be the weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration actually received by the holders of our common stock. We will notify holders of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock of the weighted average referred as soon as practicable after such determination is made.
The number of 「Units of Exchange Property」 we will deliver for each share of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock converted or as a payment of dividends on the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, as applicable, following the effective date of such Reorganization Event will be determined as if references to our common stock in the description of the conversion rate applicable upon mandatory conversion, Early Conversion and Early Fundamental Change Conversion and/or the description of the relevant dividend payment provisions, as the case may be, were to Units of Exchange Property (without interest thereon and without any right to dividends or distributions thereon which have a record date prior to the date on which holders of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock become holders of the underlying shares of our common stock). For the purpose of determining which bullet of the definition of conversion rate in the second paragraph under 「—Mandatory Conversion」 will apply upon mandatory conversion, and for the purpose of calculating the conversion rate if the second bullet is applicable, the value of a Unit of Exchange Property will be determined in good faith by our Board or an authorized committee thereof (which determination will be final), except that if a Unit of Exchange Property includes common stock or American Depositary Receipts, or 「ADRs,」 that are traded on a U.S. national securities exchange, the value of such common stock or ADRs will be the average over the 20 consecutive Trading Day period used for calculating the Applicable Market Value of the volume-weighted average prices for such common stock or ADRs, as displayed on the applicable Bloomberg screen (as determined in good faith by our Board or an authorized committee thereof (which determination will be final)); or, if such price is not available, the average market value per share of such common stock or ADRs over such period as determined, using a volume-weighted average method, by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained by us for this purpose. The provisions of this paragraph will apply to successive Reorganization Events, and the provisions summarized under 「—Anti-Dilution Adjustments」 will apply to any shares of capital stock or ADRs of us or any successor received by the holders of shares of our common stock in any such Reorganization Event.