Enterprising Investor
1 year ago
Johnson & Johnson Announces Preliminary Results of Kenvue Inc. Exchange Offer (8/21/23)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) today announced that, based on preliminary results, its previously announced offer to its shareholders to exchange their shares of Johnson & Johnson common stock for shares of Kenvue Inc. (NYSE: KVUE) (“Kenvue”) common stock owned by Johnson & Johnson was oversubscribed. The exchange offer expired at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, at the end of the day on August 18, 2023. Under the terms of the exchange offer, 8.0324 shares of Kenvue common stock will be exchanged for each share of Johnson & Johnson common stock accepted in the exchange offer.
According to the exchange agent, Computershare Trust Company, N.A., 802,707,331 shares of Johnson & Johnson common stock were validly tendered and not validly withdrawn, including 250,407,279 shares that were tendered by notice of guaranteed delivery. Johnson & Johnson intends to accept 190,955,436 of the tendered shares in exchange for the 1,533,830,450 shares of Kenvue common stock owned by Johnson & Johnson. Because the exchange offer was oversubscribed, Johnson & Johnson is accepting only a portion of the shares of its common stock that were validly tendered and not validly withdrawn, on a pro rata basis in proportion to the number of shares tendered. Shareholders who owned fewer than 100 shares of Johnson & Johnson common stock, or an "odd-lot," who have validly tendered all of their shares, will not be subject to proration, in accordance with the terms of the exchange offer.
Based on the total number of shares of Johnson & Johnson common stock reported to be tendered prior to the expiration of the exchange offer, it is estimated that approximately 23.8% of the tendered shares of Johnson & Johnson common stock will be exchanged, assuming all shares tendered by guaranteed delivery procedures are delivered under the terms of the exchange offer. This preliminary proration factor is subject to change based on the number of tendered shares that satisfy the guaranteed delivery procedures, as well as the number of "odd-lot" shares that were validly tendered and are not subject to proration. Johnson & Johnson expects to announce the final proration factor on August 23, 2023, promptly following the expiration of the guaranteed delivery period. Shares of Johnson & Johnson common stock tendered but not accepted for exchange will be returned to the tendering shareholders in book-entry form promptly after the final proration factor is announced. Following the completion of the exchange offer, Johnson & Johnson will retain approximately 9.5% of the outstanding shares of Kenvue common stock.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC are the dealer managers for the exchange offer.
About Johnson & Johnson
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe good health is the foundation of vibrant lives, thriving communities and forward progress. That’s why for more than 135 years, we have aimed to keep people well at every age and every stage of life. Today, as the world’s largest, most diversified healthcare products company, we are committed to using our reach and size for good. We strive to improve access and affordability, create healthier communities, and put a healthy mind, body and environment within reach of everyone, everywhere. We are blending our heart, science and ingenuity to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230821033927/en/Johnson-Johnson-Announces-Preliminary-Results-of-Kenvue-Inc.-Exchange-Offer
DewDiligence
1 year ago
Bankruptcy judge tosses JNJ’s proposed talc settlement:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/johnson-johnsons-second-talc-bankruptcy-case-thrown-out-74a63a13 A New Jersey bankruptcy judge threw out the second chapter 11 case that Johnson & Johnson filed to resolve its mass talc liabilities, again shutting down the healthcare-product company’s plan to achieve an $8.9 billion settlement [see #msg-171617699].
Judge Michael Kaplan of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Trenton, N.J., said that J&J affiliate LTL Management LLC, created to carry the company’s talc-related liabilities into bankruptcy, wasn’t in sufficient financial distress to warrant granting it the legal protections of chapter 11.
DewDiligence
2 years ago
JNJ asserts_it_has_settled_North_America talc claims_for_an NPV_of_$8.9B_spread_over_25_years:
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0000200406/000020040623000037/jnj-20230404.htm On April 4, 2023, the Company announced that its wholly owned subsidiary LTL Management LLC (LTL) has re-filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to obtain approval of a reorganization plan that will efficiently resolve all current and future claims arising from cosmetic talc litigation against the Company and its affiliates in North America. The Company has agreed to contribute up to the present value of $8.9 billion over 25 years (nominal value approximately $12 billion) to resolve the North America talc claims… JNJ’s press release (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/200406/000020040623000037/a44238-kexhibit991.htm ) says: LTL also has secured commitments from over 60,000 current claimants to support a global resolution on these terms. Notably, the PR doesn’t say how many other ex-North America claimants there are (or will be) and what is meant by the phrase, “these terms.”
DewDiligence
2 years ago
BMY/JNJ—Milvexian phase-2 data in treatment of acute ischemic stroke…
PR:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/breaking-results-phase-2-axiomatic-073600645.html
CC slides:
https://s21.q4cdn.com/104148044/files/doc_presentations/2022/Bristol-Myers-Squibb-ESC-IR-2022-Event-Presentation.pdf
Milvexian is an oral inhibitor of Factor XIa being co-developed by BMY and JNJ (#msg-140083631). For BMY specifically, Milvexian is the company’s hope for replacing Eliquis revenue when Eliquis goes off-patent in 2028.
In the trial reported today, Milvexian + Plavix/aspirin was compared to Plavix/aspirin alone at five different Milvexian doses. Despite the lackluster results, which include a flat dose response, BMY/JNJ have committed to a phase-3 program for Milvexian in three indications: secondary stroke prevention; ACS; and primary stroke prevention in patients with AF. The phase-3 trials are slated to start by year-end 2022 (see slide #13). Curiously, the three phase-3 indications do not include either of the indications tested in phase-2, which are treatment of acute ischemic stroke (see above) and VTE prevention (#msg-166773814).
The main competition for Milvexian is Bayer’s Asundexian, another oral FXIa inhibitor that just started phase-3 trials in AF/stroke prevention and treatment of acute ischemic stroke (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220828005030/en ).
BMY has pegged Milvexian is a $5B+ opportunity (not risk adjusted—see slide #20), but this seems optimistic in light of the dataset released today.