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| EX-1.1 - EX-1.1 - Express Scripts Holding Co. | d499515dex11.htm |
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): November 20, 2017
EXPRESS SCRIPTS HOLDING COMPANY
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
| DELAWARE | 001-35490 | 45-2884094 | ||
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) |
(Commission File Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
| One Express Way, St. Louis, MO | 63121 | |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) |
Registrant’s telephone number including area code: 314-996-0900
No change since last report
(Former Name or Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
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| Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement |
On November 20, 2017, Express Scripts Holding Company (the “Company”) and Express Scripts, Inc. and Medco Health Solutions, Inc., as guarantors, entered into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and Mizuho Securities USA LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters listed on Schedule A thereto, relating to the sale by the Company of the Company’s 2.600% Senior Notes due 2020, the Company’s Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2020 and the Company’s 3.050% Senior Notes due 2022 (collectively, the “Notes”).
Some of the underwriters and their affiliates have, from time to time, performed, and may in the future perform, various financial advisory and investment banking services for the Company and its affiliates, for which they have received or will receive compensation. An affiliate of the trustee acted as an underwriter in connection with the issuance of the Notes.
The Underwriting Agreement is filed herewith as Exhibit 1.1. The description of the Underwriting Agreement is qualified by reference thereto.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits |
| (d) | Exhibits |
In reviewing the Underwriting Agreement included as Exhibit 1.1 to this report, please remember it is included to provide you with information regarding its terms and is not intended to provide any other factual disclosure information about the Company or the other parties to the agreement. The Underwriting Agreement contains representations and warranties by each of the parties to the agreement. These representations and warranties have been made solely for the benefit of the other parties to the agreement and:
| • | should not in all instances be treated as categorical statements of fact, but rather as a way of allocating the risk to one of the parties if those statements prove to be inaccurate; |
| • | may have been qualified by disclosures that were made to the other party in connection with the negotiation of the applicable agreement, which disclosures are not necessarily reflected in the agreement; |
| • | may apply standards of materiality in a way that is different from what may be viewed as material to you or other investors; and |
| • | were made only as of the date of the agreement or such other date or dates as may be specified in the agreement and are subject to more recent developments. |
Accordingly, these representations and warranties may not describe the actual state of affairs as of the date they were made or at any other time. Additional information about the Company may be found elsewhere in this report and the Company’s other public filings, which are available without charge through the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
EXHIBIT INDEX
| Exhibit No. |
Description | |
| 1.1 | Underwriting Agreement, dated November 20, 2017, among the Company, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Mizuho Securities USA LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein. | |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| EXPRESS SCRIPTS HOLDING COMPANY | ||||||
| Date: November 22, 2017 | By: | /s/ Martin P. Akins | ||||
| Name: | Martin P. Akins | |||||
| Title: | Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | |||||