Baxter Announces Final Results of Baxalta Exchange Offer
DEERFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) (''Baxter'') announced today the final results of Baxter’s previously announced offer to exchange up to 13,360,527 shares of common stock of Baxalta Incorporated (NYSE: BXLT) (''Baxalta'') owned by Baxter for shares of Baxter common stock. The exchange offer expired at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on May 18, 2016. Under the terms of the exchange offer, for each share of Baxter common stock that was validly tendered and not validly withdrawn by a stockholder and that was accepted by Baxter pursuant to the exchange offer, subject to proration as described below, Baxter will deliver 1.1591 shares of Baxalta common stock to or at the direction of such tendering stockholder. As a result of the completion of the exchange offer, all 13,360,527 shares of Baxalta common stock owned by Baxter will be distributed to Baxter stockholders who validly tendered their shares in the exchange offer, and Baxter will not hold any shares of Baxalta common stock.