With All Regulatory Approvals Now Granted,
Company Makes Final Preparations for Mid-October Closing
Penn National Gaming, Inc. (PENN: Nasdaq) (“Penn National” or
the “Company”) announced that at meetings today, the Company
received approval from the Nevada Gaming Commission (“NGC”) and
Nevada Gaming Control Board (“NGCB”) in connection with its pending
acquisition of Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNK)
(“Pinnacle Entertainment”), subject to customary conditions.
Today’s approvals represents the final required regulatory
approvals necessary to complete the transaction and Penn National
anticipates closing the transaction in mid-October, subject to the
satisfaction or waiver of the remaining customary conditions to
closing set forth in the merger agreement between Penn National and
Pinnacle Entertainment.
Timothy J. Wilmott, Chief Executive Officer of Penn National,
commented, “We are grateful to the Nevada Gaming Commission and
Nevada Gaming Control Board for their thorough and diligent review
of the applications and filings related to our pending transaction
with Pinnacle Entertainment. With these approvals in hand, we look
forward to the upcoming closing of the transaction in mid-October
and officially welcoming Pinnacle Entertainment’s team members to
the Penn National family.”
Earlier this week Penn National announced that the Federal Trade
Commission had cleared its pending acquisition of Pinnacle
Entertainment.
About Penn National Gaming
Penn National Gaming owns, operates or has ownership interests
in gaming and racing facilities and video gaming terminal
operations with a focus on slot machine entertainment. At June 30,
2018, the Company operated twenty-eight facilities in sixteen
jurisdictions, including Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine,
Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New
Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia, and Ontario,
Canada. At June 30, 2018, in aggregate, Penn National Gaming
operated approximately 34,100 gaming machines, 770 table games and
4,800 hotel rooms. The Company also offers social online gaming
through its Penn Interactive Ventures division.
About Pinnacle
Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. owns and operates 16 gaming
entertainment businesses, located in Colorado, Indiana, Iowa,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania. In
addition, Pinnacle holds a majority interest in the racing license
owner, as well as a management contract, for Retama Park Racetrack
outside of San Antonio, Texas.
Important Additional Information
In connection with the proposed transaction, on February 8,
2018, Penn filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“SEC”) a registration statement on Form S-4 that contains a joint
proxy statement of Penn and Pinnacle and also constitutes a
prospectus of Penn (the “joint proxy statement/prospectus”). The
registration statement was declared effective by the SEC on
February 28, 2018 and Penn and Pinnacle commenced mailing the
definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus to their respective
shareholders and stockholders on February 28, 2018. This
communication does not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or a solicitation of
any vote or approval. Shareholders of Penn and stockholders of
Pinnacle are urged to read the definitive joint proxy
statement/prospectus regarding the proposed transaction and any
other relevant documents filed or that will be filed with the SEC,
as well as any amendments or supplements to those documents,
because they contain or will contain important information.
Investors may obtain a free copy of the registration statement and
the joint proxy statement/prospectus, as well as other filings
containing information about Penn and Pinnacle, without charge, at
the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the documents filed
with the SEC by Penn can be obtained, without charge, by directing
a request to Justin Sebastiano, Penn National Gaming, Inc., 825
Berkshire Boulevard, Suite 200, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania 19610,
Tel. No. (610) 401-2029. Copies of the documents filed with the SEC
by Pinnacle can be obtained, without charge, by directing a request
to Vincent Zahn, Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc., 3980 Howard Hughes
Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89169, Tel. No. (702) 541-7777.
Forward-Looking Statements
This communication may contain certain forward-looking
statements, including certain plans, expectations, goals,
projections, objectives, expectations and intentions, the expected
timing of completion of the transaction, and other statements that
are not historical facts. Such statements are subject to numerous
assumptions, risks, and uncertainties. Statements that do not
describe historical or current facts, including statements about
beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as
“expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “intend,” “estimate,” “plan,”
“target,” “goal,” or similar expressions, or future or conditional
verbs such as “will,” “may,” “might,” “should,” “would,” “could,”
or similar variations. The forward-looking statements are intended
to be subject to the safe harbor provided by Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995.
While there is no assurance that any list of risks and
uncertainties or risk factors is complete, below are certain
factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from
those contained or implied in the forward-looking statements
including: risks related to the acquisition of Pinnacle by Penn and
the integration of the businesses and assets to be acquired; the
possibility that the proposed transaction does not close when
expected or at all because conditions to the closing are not
satisfied on a timely basis or at all; the risk that the financing
required to fund the transaction is not available on the terms
anticipated or at all; the possibility that the Boyd Gaming
Corporation and/or Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. transactions
do not close in a timely fashion or at all; potential adverse
reactions or changes to business or employee relationships,
including those resulting from the announcement or completion of
the transaction; potential litigation challenging the transaction;
the possibility that the anticipated benefits of the transaction
are not realized when expected or at all, including as a result of
the impact of, or issues arising from, the integration of the two
companies; the possibility that the anticipated divestitures are
not completed in the anticipated timeframe or at all; the
possibility that the transaction may be more expensive to complete
than anticipated, including as a result of unexpected factors or
events; diversion of management’s attention from ongoing business
operations and opportunities; litigation relating to the
transaction; risks associated with increased leverage from the
transaction; and other factors discussed in the sections entitled
“Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Penn’s and
Pinnacle’s respective most recent Annual Reports on Form 10-K,
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K as
filed with the SEC. Other unknown or unpredictable factors may also
cause actual results to differ materially from those projected by
the forward-looking statements. Most of these factors are difficult
to anticipate and are generally beyond the control of Penn and
Pinnacle. Neither Penn nor Pinnacle undertakes any obligation to
release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements,
to report events or to report the occurrence of unanticipated
events unless required to do so by law.
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Penn National Gaming, Inc.William J. Fair, 610-373-2400Chief
Financial OfficerorJCIRJoseph N. Jaffoni / Richard Land,
212-835-8500penn@jcir.com
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