Original Rights Plan definition
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This Agreement (subject to receipt of the approval of Independent Shareholders as set forth below) is effective from the date that it receives the approval of the Independent Shareholders and replaces and supersedes the Original Rights Plan Agreement and the Amended Rights Plan Agreement and the Second Amended Rights Plan Agreement.
The following describes the changes to the Original Rights Plan (as defined therein) effected by such First Amendment and Restatement.
The Offeror hereby consents to the termination of the Original Rights Plan and the adoption of the Rights Plan.
Expiration Date The Original Rights Plan, according to its terms, would expire upon the earliest of (i) the date that was forty months and one day after the date of the Original Rights Plan, (ii) the effective date of an amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation, which amendment would prohibit certain transfers in the Company’s stock in order to preserve the value of the Company’s deferred tax assets for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (iii) the occurrence of certain other events.
These rights will be subject to cancellation of rights under the Original Rights Plan.
Notwithstanding this, although the TOB Amendments include many of the protections provided by the Original Rights Plan, the TOB Amendments do not address the risk of a “creeping take-over bid” where an acquiror may acquire a controlling position in an issuer in reliance on exemptions from the take-over bid requirements and without having to make a take-over bid to all shareholders.
The Original Rights Plan Agreement, and all rights issued thereunder, will expire and terminate as of the close of the meeting unless shareholders vote at the meeting to continue its operation.
None of the Original Rights Plan, the 2002 Rights Plan, the 2005 Rights Plan or the 2008 Rights Plan was adopted or approved in response to or in anticipation of any pending or threatened take-over bid, nor to deter take- over bids generally.
The Original Rights Plan was approved by the Company’s shareholders on July 13, 2006.
None of the securities held in escrow will return to Worldcolor.Shareholder Rights PlanOn February 19, 2010, the board of directors of the Company approved a new shareholder rights plan (the “Rights Plan”) to replace the Original Rights Plan which terminated in accordance with its terms on February 20, 2010.