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13-Apr-2009
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Financial Statements and Exhibits
The Stock and Interest Purchase Agreement
On April 13, 2009, WellPoint, Inc., an Indiana corporation ("WellPoint"), announced that it had entered into a Stock and Interest Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 9, 2009 (the "Agreement"), with Express Scripts, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Express Scripts").
Pursuant to the transactions contemplated under the Agreement (the "Sale"), and
subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement, which has been approved by
the Board of Directors of each of WellPoint and Express Scripts, (1) Community
Insurance Company, an Ohio corporation and an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary
of WellPoint, will sell all of its interests in NextRx, LLC, an Ohio limited
liability company, and (2) UNICARE Specialty Services, Inc., a Delaware
corporation and an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of WellPoint, will sell the
stock of each of (a) NextRx Services, Inc., a New York corporation, and
(b) NextRx, Inc., a Delaware corporation (collectively, the "Sold Entities"), in
each case, to Express Scripts, for an aggregate amount of $4.675 billion,
consisting of an aggregate of $3.275 billion in cash (subject to customary
working capital and indebtedness adjustments) and shares of common stock, par
value $0.01, of Express Scripts with an aggregate value of $1.400 billion.
Express Scripts and WellPoint have made customary representations, warranties and covenants in the Agreement. The Agreement is not subject to any financing condition. In connection with the execution of the Agreement, Express Scripts has obtained debt financing commitments pursuant to a debt commitment letter (the "Debt Commitment Letter") for the transactions contemplated by the Agreement.
Consummation of the Sale is subject to customary conditions, including, among
others, (i) absence of any law or order preventing or prohibiting the
consummation of the Sale, (ii) receipt of U.S. antitrust and any other required
regulatory approvals and the absence of the imposition of any burdensome term or
condition on WellPoint in connection with the receipt of such approvals,
(iii) the other party's representations and warranties in the Agreement being
true and correct, subject to the materiality standards contained in the
Agreement, (iv) material compliance of the other party with its covenants,
(v) receipt by Express Script from WellPoint of audited combined financial
statements of the Sold Entities relating to the year 2008, showing that the
financial condition of the Sold Entities presented in such financial statement
is not materially worse, in the aggregate, than the financial condition of the
Sold Entities presented in the unaudited combined financial statements of the
Sold Entities that were delivered to Express Scripts by WellPoint prior to the
execution of the Agreement, and (vi) completion of certain specified build outs
and other modifications to the systems capabilities of each of WellPoint and
Express Scripts to the reasonable satisfaction of Express Scripts, provided,
that this condition shall be deemed to be satisfied from and after December 31,
2009.
The Agreement contains customary indemnification obligations by each party. In addition, the Agreement contains certain termination rights for both WellPoint and Express Scripts, and further provides that, upon termination of the Agreement under specified circumstances relating to U.S. antitrust approval, Express Scripts may be required to pay WellPoint a termination fee of $50,000,000.
In connection with the Agreement, at closing, Express Scripts and WellPoint will also enter into (i) a 10-year pharmacy benefits management contract pursuant to which Express Scripts will provide certain pharmacy benefit management services to WellPoint, (ii) a transition services agreement pursuant to which WellPoint will temporarily provide certain transition services, primarily information technology and related services, to Express Scripts post-closing in support of the pharmacy benefits management business and (iii) a registration rights agreement with respect to the Express Scripts's common stock WellPoint will receive as part of the purchase price for the Sale, pursuant to which Express Scripts is required to register certain sales by WellPoint of Express Scripts's common stock following the consummation of the Sale.
The foregoing description of the Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 2.1 hereto, and is incorporated herein by reference. The terms and information in the Agreement should not be relied on as disclosure about WellPoint or Express Scripts without consideration of the periodic and current reports and statements that WellPoint and Express Scripts file with
A copy of the joint press release announcing the signing of the Agreement is attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.
(d) Exhibits.
The following exhibits are being filed herewith:
Exhibit No. Exhibit
2.1 Stock and Interest Purchase Agreement, dated April 9, 2009, by and
between Express Scripts, Inc. and WellPoint, Inc.
99.1 Joint Press Release, dated April 13, 2009, issued by WellPoint,
Inc. and Express Scripts, Inc.
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