AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGERAgreement and Plan of Merger • October 17th, 2005 • St Jude Medical Inc • Electromedical & electrotherapeutic apparatus • Texas
Contract Type FiledOctober 17th, 2005 Company Industry JurisdictionThis AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER, dated as of October 15, 2005 (this "Agreement"), is among St. Jude Medical, Inc., a Minnesota corporation ("Parent"), Apollo Merger Corp., a Texas corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent ("Sub"), and Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc., a Texas corporation (the "Company") (Sub and the Company being hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Constituent Corporations").