早在1月19日,Coherent便与Lumentum达成交易协议:Lumentum将以价值57亿美元的现金和股票交易方式收购Coherent。根据两家公司董事会一致批准的协议条款,Coherent股东将获得每股100美元现金和1.1851股Lumentum普通股。在交易结束时,Coherent股东预计将拥有合并后公司约27%的股份。
据悉,目前Coherent董事会正在评估MKS的提议是否优于Lumentum交易,并与财务和法律顾问进行商讨。Coherent董事会将与MKS进行讨论,以进一步评估MKS拟议交易与Lumentum未决交易相比的相对收益和风险,包括每笔交易的短期和长期机会,每笔交易的预期完成时间以及与每笔交易相关的完成风险。
MKS认为,他们的提议为MKS和Coherent的股东提供了令人信服的战略和财务利益,并符合Coherent与Lumentum合并协议中定义的“公司优先提议”。MKS总裁兼首席执行官John T.C. Lee表示:“我们相信,把Coherent和MKS的技术产品结合起来,将为我们的客户提供真正互补的产品组合。我们将拥有领先的技术组合,经过验证的运营能力,深厚的客户关系和可持续和盈利增长的记录,独特的定位来解决我们客户最困难的挑战。我们相信,通过增加技术投资,创建新的解决方案平台,加速行业创新以及有意义的协同效应,MKS和Coherent的合并将推动增长和股东价值。”
而Lumentum则表示,他们与Coherent的交易更为出色。因为这一交易有明确的途径获得监管部门的批准和完成,公司将致力于在今年下半年完成交易。
目前Coherent董事会未对Lumentum合并协议提出任何修改或撤销建议,也未对MKS的提议提出任何建议。
附:MKS总裁兼首席执行官John T.C. Lee致Coherent董事会的信
Letter to Coherent’s Board of Directors
February 4, 2021
Board of Directors Coherent Inc. 5100 Patrick Henry Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054
Re: Potential Combination with Coherent Inc.
To the Members of the Board:
MKS Instruments, Inc. (“MKS”) has appreciated the opportunity to discuss a combination with Coherent Inc. (“Coherent” or the “Company”) over the past 12 months. We emphatically believe that aligning the technology offerings of Coherent and MKS would create a global leader in lasers and photonics providing our customers a truly complementary portfolio which reflects both the breadth and depth of our combined resources.
Notwithstanding your decision to enter into exclusive negotiations and ultimately execute a definitive merger agreement with Lumentum before we had the opportunity to present our case for a compelling transaction for your shareholders, we remain very enthusiastic and steadfast about a combination between Coherent and MKS. As such, we are pleased to submit this proposal to acquire all the outstanding shares of Coherent common stock at a price of $240 per share, representing a transaction value of $6 billion. Our current proposal is comprised of a) $115 in cash and b) 0.7473 of a share of MKS common stock for each outstanding share of Coherent common stock reflecting a value of $125 as of today’s market close.