METLIFE COMPLETES TENDER OFFER FOR ADSs AND COMMON SHARES OF AFP PROVIDA S.A.
New York, September 30, 2013
MetLife, Inc. (“MetLife”) (NYSE: MET) announced today the expiration of the tender offer (the “U.S. Offer”) by its subsidiary, MetLife Chile Acquisition Co. S.A. (the “Purchaser”), for all of the outstanding common shares of AFP Provida S.A. (“Provida”) that are held by U.S. holders, and all of the outstanding American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”), each representing fifteen common shares of Provida, from all holders, wherever located, at a price of U.S. $6.1476 per common share and U.S. $92.2140 per ADS, in each case, in cash, without interest, payable in U.S. Dollars or Chilean Pesos, at the election of tendering holders. The U.S. Offer expired at 11:59 p.m. New York City time, on September 27, 2013.
MetLife also announced the expiration of the simultaneous tender offer in Chile (the “Chilean Offer,” and together with the U.S. Offer, the “Offers”) by Purchaser to purchase all of the outstanding common shares of Provida from all holders of common shares, wherever located, for the same price and on substantially the same terms as the common shares of Provida offered to be purchased in the U.S. Offer.
The Bank of New York Mellon (the “U.S. Tender Agent”) informed MetLife and Purchaser that a total of 4,851,876 ADSs (equal to 72,778,140 common shares), representing approximately 21.97% of the currently outstanding common shares of Provida, were validly tendered and not withdrawn in the U.S. Offer. This includes 2,805,099 ADSs tendered by Banco Bilbao VizcayaArgentaria S.A. (“BBVA”), representing 42,076,485 common shares of Provida, and 220,508 ADSs tendered by Notice of Guaranteed Delivery. No common shares were tendered into the U.S. Offer and no holders that tendered ADSs into the U.S. Offer elected to receive payment in Chilean Pesos. Purchaser has accepted for payment all ADSs validly tendered and not withdrawn in the U.S. Offer and will promptly deposit the aggregate purchase price in U.S. Dollars with the U.S. Tender Agent.
Larraín Vial S.A. Corredora de Bolsa and BanchileCorredores de Bolsa S.A. (the “Chilean agents”) informed MetLife and Purchaser that a total of 58,949,845 common shares were validly tendered and not withdrawn in the Chilean Offer, representing approximately 17.79% of the currently outstanding common shares. Purchaser has accepted for payment all common shares tendered pursuant to the Chilean Offer.
Simultaneously with payment by Purchaser to the U.S. Tender Agent and Chilean agents for the ADSs and common shares validly tendered and not withdrawn in the Offers, BBVA will, subject to the terms and conditions of the Transaction Agreement, cause the transfer to Purchaser of 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of InversionesPrevisionales, thereby transferring indirectly the 171,023,573 common shares of Provida held by InversionesPrevisionales, representing approximately 51.62% of the outstanding common shares of Provida.
Upon consummation of the Offers and the transfer of InversionesPrevisionales shares, MetLife will indirectly own 299,443,938 common shares, in both common share and ADS form, representing approximately 90.38% of the outstanding common shares of Provida. In addition, subject to actual delivery of the ADSs tendered by Notice of Guaranteed Delivery pursuant to the U.S. Offer, Purchaser could increase such ownership to up to 302,751,558 common shares (including those in ADS form), representing approximately 91.38% of the outstanding common shares of Provida.
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