CARE CAPITAL PROPERTIES,INC. (NYSE:CCP) Files An 8-K Other EventsItem 8.01. Other Events.
Litigation Related to the Merger
As previously disclosed, on May7, 2017, Care Capital Properties,Inc., a Delaware corporation (“CCP” or the “Company”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as may be amended from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Sabra Health Care REIT,Inc., a Maryland corporation (“Sabra”), PR Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), Care Capital Properties, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Care Capital LP”), and Sabra Health Care Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership (“Sabra LP”). The Merger Agreement provides for (i)the merger of the Company with and into Merger Sub (the “Merger”), with Merger Sub being the surviving company in the Merger (the “Surviving Company”), (ii)immediately following the Merger and simultaneous with the Partnership Merger (defined below), the merger of the Surviving Company with and into Sabra (the “Subsequent Merger”), with Sabra being the surviving corporation in the Subsequent Merger and (iii)immediately following the Merger and simultaneous with the Subsequent Merger, the merger of Care Capital LP with and into Sabra LP (the “Partnership Merger”), with Sabra LP being the surviving limited partnership in the Partnership Merger, in each case on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement.
Between June29 and July10, 2017, five putative class action lawsuits were filed in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, and were subsequently consolidated under the caption In re Care Capital Properties,Inc. Shareholder Litigation, Consolidated Case No.1:17-cv-00859-LPS (the “Consolidated Delaware Litigation”). The Consolidated Delaware Litigation names the Company and its directors as defendants, and certain of the lawsuits also name as defendants Sabra, Merger Sub, Care Capital LP, and Sabra LP. On June30, 2017, a putative class action lawsuit (Douglas v. Care Capital Props.,Inc., et al., Case No.1:17-cv-04942) (the “Illinois Litigation” and, together with the Consolidated Delaware Litigation, the “Merger Litigation”) was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the Company and its directors, and on July28, 2017, the Court entered the parties’ voluntary stipulation staying the Illinois Litigation. All six lawsuits allege that the joint proxy statement/prospectus (the “Proxy Statement”) related to the proposed merger of the Company and Sabra violated federal securities laws in purportedly omitting to disclose information necessary to make the statements therein not materially false or misleading. The lawsuits seek, among other things, an injunction of the proposed merger; dissemination of supplemental disclosures to the Proxy Statement; declarations that the Proxy Statement violated federal securities laws; damages, including rescissory damages; and an award of costs and attorneys’ fees.
The Company believes that the claims asserted in the Merger Litigation are without merit and intends to defend against the Merger Litigation vigorously. However, in order to moot the plaintiffs’ unmeritorious disclosure claims, alleviate the costs, risks and uncertainties inherent in litigation and provide additional information to its stockholders, the Company has determined to voluntarily supplement the Proxy Statement as described in this Current Report on Form8-K. Nothing in this Current Report on Form8-K shall be deemed an admission of the legal necessity or materiality under applicable laws of any of the disclosures set forth herein. To the contrary, the Company specifically denies all allegations in the Merger Litigation that any additional disclosure was or is required.
Supplemental Disclosures.
The following disclosures supplement, and should be read in conjunction with, the disclosures contained in the Proxy Statement, which should be read in its entirety. To the extent the information set forth herein differs from or updates information contained in the Proxy Statement, the information set forth herein shall supersede or supplement the information in the Proxy Statement. All page references are to pagesin the Proxy Statement, and terms used below, unless otherwise defined, have the meanings set forth in the Proxy Statement.
The disclosure on page94 of the Proxy Statement is hereby amended by amending and restating in its entirety footnote 2 to the table setting forth the CCP April2017 projections (excluding unidentified transactions) under the heading “Certain Unaudited Projections — CCP Unaudited Projections”:
(2) In connection with Barclays’ discounted cash flow analysis, net asset value analysis and selected precedent portfolio transaction analysis, Barclays calculated Total Cash NOI based upon the CCP April2017 projections (excluding unidentified transactions). Total Cash NOI equals Total NOI and Other Income, adjusted to exclude income from loans, consulting and other, and non-cash revenue. The numbers used as Total Cash NOI for purposes of such financial analyses were $326.4 million, $337.5 million and $345.5 million for 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively. Subsequent to July7, 2017, it was determined that the calculation of Total Cash NOI in such financial analyses was understated in the amount of approximately $1.5 million for 2018, $1.2 million for 2019 and $531,000 for 2020, such that actual Total Cash NOI for each of such years was $327.8 million, $338.7 million and $346.0 million, respectively. As a result of these understatements, the CCP Implied Price Per Share calculated to the foregoing financial analyses was also understated and would have been $27.20 – $32.60 (with an implied exchange ratio of 0.877x-1.325x) in the case of the discounted cash flow analysis, $25.80 – $30.20 (with an implied exchange ratio of 0.952x-1.313x) in the case of the net asset value analysis and $24.40 – $30.00 (with an implied exchange ratio of 0.819x-1.172x) in the case of the selected precedent portfolio transaction analysis. Following the discovery of such understatements, Barclays confirmed to the CCP board of directors that such understatements did not impact Barclays’ overall analysis of the fairness, from a financial point of view and as of the date of its opinion, of the exchange ratio to be offered to CCP’s stockholders in the proposed transaction. Total Cash NOI is a non-GAAP financial measure and should not be considered independently from, or as a substitute for, financial information presented in accordance with GAAP.
The disclosure on page95 of the Proxy Statement is hereby amended by inserting the following language immediately following the footnotes to the table setting forth a summary of the CCP April2017 projections (excluding unidentified transactions) under the heading “Certain Unaudited Projections — CCP Unaudited Projections)”: