CORRECTING and REPLACING Apogent Announces Expiration of Tender Offer for 8% Senior Notes.Business Editors CORRECTION...by Apogent Technologies PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2003 In BW5297 issued Oct. 16, 2003: First graph, second sentence of release should read: The tender offer expired on October 15, 2003 at 5:00 p.m., New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. time (the "Expiration Date Expiration Date The day on which an options or futures contract is no longer valid and, therefore, ceases to exist. Notes: The expiration date for all listed stock options in the U.S. ") (sted The tender offer expired today at 5:00 p.m., New York City time (the "Expiration Date")). The corrected release reads: APOGENT ANNOUNCES EXPIRATION OF TENDER OFFER FOR 8% SENIOR NOTES Apogent Technologies Inc. announced today the expiration of its previously announced cash tender offer for all of its $325.0 million principal amount of 8% Senior Notes due 2011 (the "Notes"). The tender offer expired on October 15, 2003 at 5:00 p.m., New York City time (the "Expiration Date"). All Notes validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to the tender offer have been accepted for payment by Apogent. As of the Expiration Date, Apogent received tenders of a total of $317,955,000 principal amount of Notes, representing approximately 97.8% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding prior to the tender offer. Of the total amount of Notes tendered, a total of $316,955,000 principal amount of Notes were tendered on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time on September 25, 2003 (the "Consent Date"), and Apogent purchased the Notes tendered on or prior to the Consent Date on September 29, 2003. Apogent currently expects to make payment for Notes validly tendered and not properly withdrawn after the Consent Date promptly after the Expiration Date. Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH), founded in 1850, is a diversified, global financial services firm. It is a participant in investment banking, equity and fixed income sales, research and trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking. acted as the sole dealer manager for the tender offer and sole solicitation agent for the consent solicitation Consent Solicitation A solicitation by one party to the stakeholders of a particular security for the consent of a material change. Notes: Should the majority of stakeholders provide valid consent prior to the consent expiry date, the issuer may then follow through with . The information agent for the tender offer and consent solicitation was Georgeson Shareholder Services and the depositary DEPOSITARY, contracts. He with whom a deposit is confided or made. 2. It is, the essence of the contract of deposits that it should be gratuitous on the part 'of the depositary. 9 M. R. 470. was The Bank of New York The Bank of New York, abbrieviated to BNY, was a global financial services company that existed until its merger with the Mellon Financial Corporation on July 2, 2007.[1] The bank now continues under the new name of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. . This news release is neither an offer to purchase nor an offer to sell securities. The tender offer was made solely by the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement dated September 16, 2003 and the related Consent and Letter of Transmittal Letter of Transmittal A document used by security holder to accompany certificates surrendered in an exchange or other corporate action. . |
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