Zimmer Biomet Holdings Announces Launch Of Secondary Offering
WARSAW — Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. announced certain of its stockholders, consisting of affiliates of Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, intend to offer for sale in an underwritten secondary offering 11,027,558 shares of the common stock of Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. The selling stockholders will receive all of the proceeds of the offering. Neither Zimmer Biomet nor any of its directors, officers or other stockholders is offering shares of common stock in the offering.
Subject to the completion of the offering, Zimmer Biomet intends to purchase from the underwriter $250 million of the shares of common stock being sold by the selling stockholders at a price per share equal to the per share purchase price payable by the underwriter to the selling stockholders. These repurchased shares will no longer be outstanding following completion of the offering.
Zimmer Biomet intends to fund the repurchase with cash on hand. This share repurchase would be in addition to approximately $165 million of shares that Zimmer Biomet has already purchased during 2016 as part of its share repurchase program.
As part of the offering, Zimmer Biomet and each of its directors and executive officers and certain of its stockholders affiliated with KKR, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and TPG will enter into lock-up agreements with respect to the sale of shares of common stock of Zimmer Biomet for a 60-day period following the offering, subject to customary exceptions.
Barclays Capital Inc. is acting as the sole underwriter for the offering.
Zimmer Biomet has filed a registration statement, including a base prospectus, with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the preliminary prospectus supplement and final prospectus supplement, when available, and the accompanying base prospectus in that registration statement and other documents Zimmer Biomet has filed with the SEC for more complete information about Zimmer Biomet and this offering. You may obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC’s website.
Alternatively, copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and final prospectus supplement, when available, and the accompanying base prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from Barclays Capital Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Ave., Edgewood, NY 11717, email [email protected] or call (888) 603-5847.