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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C. 20549
FORM 8-K
RELATING TO ADOPTION OF A RIGHTS PLAN
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 21, 2000 (July 18, 2000)
SUNGARD DATA SYSTEMS INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)
001-12989 51-0267091
(Commission File No.) (IRS Employer Identification No.)
1285 Drummers Lane
Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087
(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (610) 341-8700
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Item 5. Other Events.
On July 18, 2000, the Board of Directors of SunGard Data Systems Inc.
(the "Company") approved the adoption of a Share Purchase Rights Plan (the
"Plan"). Terms of the Plan provide for a dividend distribution of one preferred
share purchase right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, par
value $0.01 per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is
payable on July 20, 2000 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on
that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the
Company one one-hundredth of a share of Series A Junior Participating Preferred
Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Preferred Shares"), at a price of $175
per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to
adjustment. Each one one-hundredth of a share of Preferred Shares has
designations and powers, preferences and rights, and the qualifications,
limitations and restrictions which make its value approximately equal to the
value of a Common Share. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth
in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement"), dated as of July 18, 2000
entered into between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, N.A., as rights
agent (the "Rights Agent").
Initially, the Rights will be evidenced by the stock certificates
representing the Common Shares then outstanding, and no separate Right
Certificates, as defined, will be distributed. Until the earlier to occur of
(i) the date of a public announcement that a person, entity or group of
affiliated or associated persons have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or
more of the outstanding Common Shares (an "Acquiring Person") or (ii) 10
business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of
Directors prior to such time as any person or entity becomes an Acquiring
Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to
commence, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would
result in any person or entity becoming an Acquiring Person (the earlier of such
dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with
respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record
Date, by such Common Share certificate with or without a copy of the Summary of
Rights, which is included in the Rights Agreement as Exhibit C thereof (the
"Summary of Rights").
Until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferable with and
only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption
or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the
Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares, will contain a
notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the
Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the
surrender or transfer of any certificates for Common Shares outstanding as of
the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of the Summary of Rights
being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights
associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as
practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing
the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the
Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such
separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights.
The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The
Rights will expire on July 20, 2010 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the
Rights are earlier redeemed or exchanged by the Company, in each case, as
described below.
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The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or
other securities or other property, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to
adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock
dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred
Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights
or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or
securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than
the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the
distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or
assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or
retained earnings or dividends payable in Preferred Shares) or of subscription
rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The exercise of Rights
for Preferred Shares is at all times subject to the availability of a sufficient
number of authorized but unissued Preferred Shares.
The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths
of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to
adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock
dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions,
consolidation or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any case, prior
to the Distribution Date.
Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be
redeemable. Each Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential
quarterly dividend payment of $1.00 but will be entitled to an aggregate
dividend of 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of
liquidation, the holders of the Preferred Shares would be entitled to a minimum
preferential liquidation payment of $100 per share, but would be entitled to
receive an aggregate payment equal to 100 times the payment made per Common
Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the
Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other
transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be
entitled to receive 100 times the amount of consideration received per Common
Share. These rights are protected by customary anti-dilution provisions.
Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights,
the value of one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share should approximate the value
of one Common Share. The Preferred Shares would rank junior to any other series
of the Company's preferred stock.
In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated
persons becomes an Acquiring Person, proper provision shall be made so that each
holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person
and its associates and affiliates (which will thereafter be void), will for a
60-day period have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common
Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right (or,
if such number of shares is not and cannot be authorized, the Company may issue
Preferred Shares, cash, debt, stock or a combination thereof in exchange for the
Rights). This right will terminate 60 days after the date on which the Rights
become nonredeemable (as described below), unless there is an injunction or
similar obstacle to exercise of the Rights, in which event this right will
terminate 60 days after the date on which the Rights again become exercisable.
Generally, under the Plan, an "Acquiring Person" shall not be deemed
to include (i) the Company, (ii) a subsidiary of the Company, (iii) any employee
benefit or compensation plan of the Company, or (iv) any entity holding Common
Shares for or pursuant to the terms of any such employee benefit or compensation
plan. Further, except under certain circumstances, no person
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shall become an Acquiring Person due to the acquisition of Common Shares
directly from the Company.
In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other
business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or
earning power are sold to an Acquiring Person, its associates or affiliates or
certain other persons in which such persons have an interest, proper provision
will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to
receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the
Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at
the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise
price of the Right.
At any time after an Acquiring Person becomes an Acquiring Person and
prior to the acquisition by such Acquiring Person of 50% or more of the
outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange
the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become
void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share, or one
one-hundredth of a Preferred Share, per Right (or, at the election of the
Company, the Company may issue cash, debt, stock or a combination thereof in
exchange for the Rights), subject to adjustment.
With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be
required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in
such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than
fractions which are integral multiples of the number of one one-hundredths of a
Preferred Share issuable upon the exercise of one Right, which may, at the
election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts), and in lieu
thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the
Preferred Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise.
At any time prior to the earliest of (i) the day of the first public
announcement that a person has become an Acquiring Person or (ii) the Final
Expiration Date, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in
whole, but not in part, at a price of $0.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price").
Following the expiration of the above periods, the Rights become nonredeemable.
Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights
will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive
the Redemption Price.
The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of
the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, except that from
and after such time as the rights are distributed no such amendment may
adversely affect the interest of the holders of the Rights excluding the
interests of an Acquiring Person.
Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no
rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right
to vote or to receive dividends.
The Rights have certain anti-takeover effects. The Rights will cause
substantial dilution to a person or group that attempts to acquire the Company
on terms not approved by the Company's Board of Directors. The Rights should
not interfere with any merger or other business combination approved by the
Board of Directors since the Rights may be amended to permit such acquisition or
redeemed by the Company at $0.01 per Right prior to the earliest of
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(i) the time that a person or group has acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or
more of the Common Shares or (ii) the final expiration date of the rights.
Item 7. Exhibits.
99.1 Press Release, dated as of July 20, 2000 entitled "SunGard Announces
Second Quarter 2000 Results and Adoption of Stockholder Rights Plan."
99.2 Rights Agreement dated as of July 18, 2000 between SunGard Data
Systems Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, N.A.
99.3 Registrant's Certificate of Designation of Series A Junior
Participating Preferred Stock.
99.4 Form of Rights Certificate.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
SunGard Data Systems Inc.
Dated: July 21, 2000 By: /s/ Cristobal Conde
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Cristobal Conde
President and Chief Operating Officer
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
99.1 Press Release, dated as of July 20, 2000 entitled "SunGard Announces
Second Quarter 2000 Results and Adoption of Stockholder Rights Plan."
99.2 Rights Agreement dated as of July 18, 2000 between SunGard Data
Systems Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, N.A.
99.3 Registrant's Certificate of Designation of Series A Junior
Participating Preferred Stock.
99.4 Form of Rights Certificate.
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