CAPITALIZATION
The following table sets forth (i) our
historical capitalization as of March 31, 2004,
(ii) our adjusted capitalization assuming the spin off was
effective on March 31, 2004, including the effects of
monetary asset contributions from LMC in connection with our
spin off from LMC, and (iii) our adjusted capitalization
giving effect to our receipt of $499 million in net cash
proceeds assuming the rights offering was fully subscribed and
consummated on March 31, 2004, and assuming we used a
portion of such net cash proceeds to repay amounts due to LMC.
The table should be read in conjunction with our historical
combined financial statements, including the notes thereto and
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations included elsewhere
herein.
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March 31, 2004
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As adjusted for
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As adjusted for
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the spin off and
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Historical
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the spin off
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the rights offering
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amounts in thousands
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Parent cash(1)
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$
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50,000
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518,210
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Subsidiary cash(2)
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1,286,923
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1,286,923
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1,286,923
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Other investments(1)
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686,823
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1,257,944
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1,257,944
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1,973,746
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2,594,867
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3,063,077
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Payables, accruals and other liabilities
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1,466,259
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1,466,259
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1,466,259
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Due to LMC(3)
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30,790
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30,790
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LMC short-term credit facility(3)
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Long-term debt
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3,636,964
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3,636,964
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3,636,964
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Deferred tax liabilities
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338,680
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377,162
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377,162
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Total liabilities
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5,472,693
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5,511,175
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5,480,385
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Minority interest
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1,102,529
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1,102,529
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1,102,529
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Equity:
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Common Stock ($.01 par value):
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Series A; 500,000,000 shares
authorized; 139,428,256 assumed issued on a pro forma basis(4)
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1,394
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1,394
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Series B; 50,000,000 shares authorized;
6,053,141 assumed issued on a pro forma basis(4)
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61
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Series C; 500,000,000 shares
authorized; no shares assumed issued on a pro forma basis(4)
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Additional paid-in capital(4)
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6,433,070
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6,932,070
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Accumulated other comprehensive loss
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(27,618
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32,571
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32,571
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Accumulated deficit
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(1,714,900
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(1,714,900
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(1,714,900
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Parents investment
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5,912,075
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Total equity
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4,169,557
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4,752,196
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5,251,196
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Total liabilities and equity
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$
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10,744,779
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11,365,900
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11,834,110
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(1)
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Upon consummation of the spin off, LMC
contributed to us $50 million in cash, 5 million
American Depository Shares for preferred, limited voting
ordinary shares of The News Corporation Limited with a market
value of $158.6 million at March 31, 2004, and a 99.9%
economic interest in 345,000 shares of preferred stock of
ABC Family Worldwide, Inc. with a market value of
$412.6 million at March 31, 2004.
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(2)
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We generally are not entitled to the cash
resources of our operating subsidiaries.
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(3)
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At the time of our spin off from LMC, one of our
subsidiaries had outstanding notes payable in the aggregate
principal amount of
$[ ]
to LMC and we entered into a short-term credit facility with LMC
pursuant to which it has agreed, if requested by us, to make one
or more loans to us in an aggregate principal amount of up to
$[ ].
The subsidiary notes payable and any loans under the credit
facility bear interest at 6% per annum, compounded
semi-annually. The subsidiary notes payable and any amount that
we have drawn on the credit facility and not prepaid, if any,
will be due and payable no later than March 31, 2005. We
will use a portion of the net proceeds from the rights offering
to repay the subsidiary notes payable and loans we have
outstanding under the credit facility at the time the rights
offering closes, if any.
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(4)
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For purposes of this capitalization table, the
total cash proceeds amount has been attributed to additional
paid-in capital as the relative amounts attributable to our
Series A and Series B common stock are not known at
this time.
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THE RIGHTS OFFERING
General
Promptly following 5:00 p.m., New York City
time,
on ,
2004, which is the record date for the rights offering, we will
distribute to each holder of our Series A common stock, at
no charge,
[ ]
of a transferable subscription right for each share of
Series A common stock owned as of the record date, and we
will distribute to each holder of our Series B common
stock, at no charge,
[ ]
of a transferable subscription right for each share of
Series B common stock owned as of the record date. The
rights will be evidenced by rights certificates.
Each right entitles the holder to a basic
subscription privilege and an oversubscription privilege. Under
the basic subscription privilege, each whole Series A right
entitles the holder to purchase one share of our Series A
common stock at a subscription price of
$[ ]
per share, a discount to the
$[ ]
per share closing price of our Series A common stock on the
Nasdaq National Market on the date that the subscription price
was determined, and each whole Series B right entitles the
holder to purchase one share of our Series B common stock
at a subscription price of
$[ ]
per share, a discount to the
$[ ]
per share closing price of our Series B common stock on the
Nasdaq National Market on the date that the subscription price
was determined. Each Series A right and Series B right
also has an oversubscription privilege, as described below under
the heading Subscription
PrivilegeOversubscription Privilege.
The following describes the rights offering in
general and assumes (unless specifically provided otherwise)
that you are a record holder of our common stock. If you hold
your shares in a brokerage account or through a dealer or other
nominee, please see the information included below under the
heading Beneficial Owners. As used in this
prospectus, the term business day means any day on
which securities may be traded on the Nasdaq National Market.
Reasons for the Rights Offering
We were a wholly owned subsidiary of LMC until
June 8, 2004, at which time LMC distributed to its
shareholders, on a pro rata basis, all of our shares of common
stock. At the time of our spin off from LMC, one of our
subsidiaries had outstanding notes payable in the aggregate
amount of
$[ ]
to LMC and we entered into a short-term credit facility pursuant
to which LMC agreed, if requested by us through
December 31, 2004, to make one or more loans to us up to an
aggregate principal amount of
$[ ],
at an interest rate of 6% per annum compounded
semi-annually. The notes payable and any loans outstanding under
the credit facility are due and fully payable on March 31,
2005. We have undertaken to LMC to use commercially reasonable
efforts to consummate an equity or debt financing as soon as
practicable after the spin off. We are conducting the rights
offering in satisfaction of that undertaking as well as to
obtain more permanent financing. Further, if the net proceeds of
the offering are at least $500 million, we and LMC will
terminate the short-term credit facility.
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Determination of Subscription Price
On
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2004, the special pricing committee of our board of directors
determined the Series A and Series B subscription
price. The members of the special pricing committee are
[ ].
The Series A subscription price represented a discount of
$[ ],
or approximately [ %], to the
closing market price of our Series A common stock on the
date that the subscription price was determined, and the
Series B subscription price represented a discount of
$[ ],
or approximately [ %], to the
closing market price of our Series B common stock on the
date that the subscription price was determined. In reaching
these determinations, the special pricing committee considered,
among other things, our historical financial performance, the
market prices of our common stock since our spin off from LMC,
discounts used in similar rights offerings and the general
condition of the securities markets.
No Fractional Rights
We will not issue or pay cash in lieu of
fractional rights. Instead, we will round up any fractional
rights to the nearest whole right. For example, if you own
[ ] shares
of Series A common stock, you will receive
[ ]
rights, instead of
[ ]
rights you would have received without rounding.
You may request that the subscription agent
divide your rights certificate into transferable parts if you
are the record holder for a number of beneficial owners of
common stock. However, the subscription agent will not divide
your rights certificate so that (through rounding or otherwise)
you would receive a greater number of rights than those to which
you would be entitled if you had not divided your certificates.
Expiration Time
You may exercise the basic subscription privilege
and the oversubscription privilege at any time before the
expiration time, which is 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on
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2004, unless the rights offering is extended. Any rights not
exercised before the expiration time will expire and become null
and void. We will not be obligated to honor your exercise of
rights if the subscription agent receives any of the required
documents relating to your exercise after the expiration time,
regardless of when you transmitted the documents, unless you
have timely transmitted the documents pursuant to the guaranteed
delivery procedures described below.
We may extend the expiration time for any reason,
and you will not be able to revoke your exercise of
subscriptions.
If we elect to extend the date the rights expire,
we will issue a press release announcing the extension before
9:00 a.m. on the first business day after the most recently
announced expiration time.
Subscription Privileges
Your rights entitle you to a basic subscription
privilege and an oversubscription privilege.
Basic Subscription Privilege
The basic subscription privilege entitles you to
purchase one share of the applicable series of common stock per
whole right held, upon delivery of the required documents and
payment of the applicable subscription price per share, prior to
the expiration time. You are not required to exercise your basic
subscription privilege, in full or in part, unless you wish to
also purchase shares under your oversubscription privilege
described below.
Oversubscription Privilege
The Series A rights include an
oversubscription privilege relating to shares of our
Series A common stock, and the Series B rights include
an oversubscription privilege relating to shares of our
Series B common stock. The oversubscription privilege
entitles you to purchase up to that number of shares of the
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applicable series of common stock offered in the
rights offering which are not purchased by other rightsholders
pursuant to their basic subscription privilege, upon delivery of
the required documents and payment of the applicable
subscription price per share prior to the expiration time. You
will be permitted to purchase shares of the applicable series of
common stock pursuant to your oversubscription privilege only if
other holders of rights of the same series do not exercise their
basic subscription privilege in full. You may exercise your
oversubscription privilege only if you exercise your basic
subscription privilege in full. If you wish to exercise your
oversubscription privilege, you must specify the number of
additional shares you wish to purchase, which may be up to the
maximum number of shares of that series offered in the rights
offering, less the number of shares you may purchase under your
basic subscription privilege.
Pro Rata Allocation.
If there are not enough shares of a series to satisfy all
subscriptions pursuant to the exercise of the oversubscription
privilege relating to that series, we will allocate the shares
that are available for purchase under the oversubscription
privilege pro rata (subject to the elimination of fractional
shares) among those rightsholders who exercise their
oversubscription privilege. Pro rata means in proportion to the
number of shares of the applicable series that you and the other
holders of rights of the applicable series have purchased
pursuant to the exercise of the basic subscription privilege. If
there is a need to prorate the exercise of rights pursuant to
the oversubscription privilege and the pro ration results in the
allocation to you of a greater number of shares than you
subscribed for pursuant to the oversubscription privilege, then
we will allocate to you only the number of shares for which you
subscribed pursuant to your basic and oversubscription
privileges. We will allocate the remaining shares among all
other rightsholders exercising their oversubscription privileges
relating to the same series of our common stock.
Full Exercise of Basic Subscription
Privilege.
You may exercise your
oversubscription privilege relating to a given series of our
common stock only if you exercise, in full, your basic
subscription privilege relating to the same series for all
rights represented by a single rights certificate. To determine
if you have fully exercised your basic subscription privilege,
we will consider only the basic subscription privilege held by
you in the same capacity under a single rights certificate. For
example, if you were granted rights under a single Series A
rights certificate for shares of Series A common stock you
own individually and rights under a single Series A rights
certificate for shares of common stock you own jointly with your
spouse, you only need to fully exercise your basic subscription
privilege with respect to your individually owned rights in
order to exercise your oversubscription privilege with respect
to those rights. You do not have to subscribe for any shares
under the basic subscription privilege owned jointly with your
spouse to exercise your individual oversubscription privilege.
Similarly, if you were granted rights under a single
Series A rights certificate and rights under a single
Series B rights certificate, you only need to exercise your
basic subscription privilege with respect to your Series A
rights in order to exercise your oversubscription privilege with
respect to your Series A rights. You do not have to
subscribe for any shares under the Series B basic
subscription privilege in order to exercise your Series A
oversubscription privilege. If you transfer a portion of your
rights, you may exercise your oversubscription privilege if you
exercise all of the remaining rights represented by the rights
certificate you receive back from the subscription agent
following the transfer.
You must exercise your oversubscription privilege
at the same time as you exercise your basic subscription
privilege in full.
If you own your shares of Series A or
Series B common stock through your broker, dealer or other
nominee holder and you wish for them to exercise your
oversubscription privilege on your behalf, the nominee holder
will be required to certify to us and the subscription agent:
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the series and number of shares of our common
stock held on the record date on your behalf;
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the series and number of rights you exercised
under your basic subscription privilege;
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that your entire basic subscription privilege
held in the same capacity has been exercised in full; and
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the series and number of shares of common stock
you subscribed for pursuant to the oversubscription privilege.
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Your nominee holder must also disclose to us
certain other information received from you.
Return of Excess
Payment.
If you exercise your
oversubscription privilege and are allocated less than all of
the shares of common stock for which you subscribed, the funds
you paid for those shares of common stock that are not allocated
to you will be returned by mail or similarly prompt means,
without interest or deduction, as soon as practicable after the
expiration time.
Exercising Your Rights
You may exercise your rights by delivering the
following to the subscription agent before the expiration time:
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your properly completed and executed rights
certificate evidencing the exercised rights with any required
signature guarantees or other supplemental
documentation; and
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your payment in full of the subscription price
for each share of the applicable series of common stock
subscribed for pursuant to the basic subscription privilege and
the oversubscription privilege.
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Alternatively, if you deliver a notice of
guaranteed delivery together with your subscription price
payment prior to the expiration time, you must deliver the
rights certificate within three business days after the
expiration time using the guaranteed delivery procedures
described below under the heading Guaranteed
Delivery Procedures. You must, in any event, provide
payment in full of the subscription price for each share of the
applicable series of common stock being subscribed for pursuant
to the basic subscription privilege and the oversubscription
privilege to the subscription agent
before
the
expiration time
Payment of Subscription Price
Your cash payment of the subscription price must
be made by either check or bank draft drawn upon a
U.S. bank or postal, telegraphic or express money order
payable to the subscription agent.
Your cash payment of the subscription price will
be deemed to have been received by the subscription agent only
when:
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any uncertified check clears; or
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the subscription agent receives any certified
check or bank draft drawn upon a U.S. bank or any postal,
telegraphic or express money order.
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You should note that funds paid by uncertified
personal checks may take five business days or more to clear. If
you wish to pay the subscription price in respect of your basic
subscription privilege and oversubscription privilege by an
uncertified personal check, we urge you to make payment
sufficiently in advance of the time the rights expire to ensure
that your payment is received and clears by that time. We urge
you to consider using a certified or cashiers check, or
money order to avoid missing the opportunity to exercise your
rights.
We will retain any interest earned on the cash
funds held by the subscription agent prior to the earlier of the
consummation or termination of the rights offering.
The subscription agent will hold your payment of
the subscription price in a segregated escrow account with other
payments received from holders of rights until we issue to you
your shares of common stock or return your overpayment, if any.
Exercising a Portion of Your Rights
If you subscribe for fewer than all of the shares
of common stock that you are eligible to purchase pursuant to
the basic subscription privilege represented by your rights
certificate, you may, under certain circumstances, request from
the subscription agent a new rights certificate representing the
unused rights
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and then attempt to sell your unused rights. See
Method of Transferring and Selling Rights
below. Alternatively, you may transfer a portion of your rights
and request from the subscription agent a new rights certificate
representing the rights you did not transfer. If you exercise
less than all of your rights represented by a single rights
certificate, you may not exercise the oversubscription privilege.
Calculation of Rights Exercised
If you do not indicate the number of rights being
exercised, or do not forward full payment of the aggregate
subscription price for the number of rights that you indicate
are being exercised, then you will be deemed to have exercised
the basic subscription privilege with respect to the maximum
number of rights that may be exercised for the aggregate
subscription price payment you delivered to the subscription
agent. If your aggregate subscription price payment is greater
than the amount you owe for your basic subscription and no
direction is given as to the excess, you will be deemed to have
exercised the oversubscription privilege to purchase the maximum
number of shares available to you pursuant to your
oversubscription privilege that may be purchased with your
overpayment. If we do not apply your full subscription price
payment to your purchase of shares of common stock, we will
return the excess amount to you by mail or similarly prompt
means, without interest or deduction as soon as practicable
after the expiration time.
Instructions for Completing the Rights
Certificate
You should read and follow the instructions
accompanying the rights certificate carefully. If you want to
exercise your rights, you must send your completed rights
certificates, any necessary accompanying documents and payment
of the subscription price to the subscription agent.
You
should not send the rights certificates, any other documentation
or payment to us.
Any rights certificates and other items
received by us will be returned to the sender as promptly as
possible.
You are responsible for the method of delivery of
rights certificates, any necessary accompanying documents and
payment of the subscription price to the subscription agent. If
you send the rights certificates and other items by mail, we
recommend that you send them by registered mail, properly
insured, with return receipt requested. You should allow a
sufficient number of days to ensure delivery to the subscription
agent and clearance of cash payment prior to the expiration time.
Signature Guarantee May Be Required
Your signature on each rights certificate must be
guaranteed by an eligible institution such as a member firm of a
registered national securities exchange, a member of the
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or a commercial
bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the
United States, subject to standards and procedures adopted by
the subscription agent, unless:
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your rights certificate is registered in your
name; or
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you are an eligible institution.
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Delivery of Subscription Materials and
Payment
You should deliver the rights certificate and
payment of the subscription price, as well as any nominee holder
certifications, notices of guaranteed delivery, Depository Trust
Company participant oversubscription forms and any other
required documentation:
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If by mail to:
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If by hand delivery to:
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If by overnight delivery to:
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You may call the subscription agent at
[(866) - ].
Foreign Shareholders call
[(781) - ].
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Guaranteed Delivery Procedures
If you wish to exercise your rights, but you do
not have sufficient time to deliver the rights certificates
evidencing your rights to the subscription agent before the
expiration time, you may exercise your rights by the following
guaranteed delivery procedures:
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provide your payment in full of the subscription
price for each share of the applicable series of common stock
being subscribed for pursuant to the basic subscription
privilege and the oversubscription privilege to the subscription
agent
before
the expiration time;
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deliver a notice of guaranteed delivery to the
subscription agent at or before the expiration time; and
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deliver the properly completed rights certificate
evidencing the rights being exercised (and, if applicable for a
nominee holder, the related nominee holder certification), with
any required signatures guaranteed, to the subscription agent,
within three business days following the date the notice of
guaranteed delivery was delivered to the subscription agent.
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Your notice of guaranteed delivery must be
substantially in the form provided with the Instructions
For Use of Liberty Media International, Inc. Rights
Certificates distributed to you with your rights
certificate. Your notice of guaranteed delivery must come from
an eligible institution which is a member of, or a participant
in, a signature guarantee program acceptable to the subscription
agent. In your notice of guaranteed delivery you must state:
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your name;
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the number of rights represented by your rights
certificates, the number and series of shares of common stock
you are subscribing for pursuant to the basic subscription
privilege, the number and series of shares of common stock, if
any, you are subscribing for pursuant to the oversubscription
privilege; and
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your guarantee that you will deliver to the
subscription agent any rights certificates evidencing the rights
you are exercising within three business days following the date
the subscription agent receives your notice of guaranteed
delivery.
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You may deliver the notice of guaranteed delivery
to the subscription agent in the same manner as the rights
certificate at the addresses set forth under
Delivery of Subscription Materials and Payment
above. You may also transmit the notice of guaranteed delivery
to the subscription agent by facsimile transmission to
[(781) - ].
To confirm facsimile deliveries, you may call
[(781) - ].
The information agent will send you additional
copies of the form of notice of guaranteed delivery if you need
them. Please call the information agent at
[(800) - ].
Notice to Nominees
If you are a broker, a dealer, a trustee or a
depositary for securities who holds shares of our common stock
for the account of others as a nominee holder, you should notify
the respective beneficial owners of those shares of the issuance
of the rights as soon as possible to find out the beneficial
owners intentions. You should obtain instructions from the
beneficial owner with respect to the rights, as set forth in the
instructions we have provided to you for your distribution to
beneficial owners. If the beneficial owner so instructs, you
should complete the appropriate rights certificates and, in the
case of the oversubscription privilege, the related nominee
holder certification, and submit them to the subscription agent
with the proper payment. A nominee holder that holds shares for
the account(s) of more than one beneficial owner may exercise
the number of rights to which all such beneficial owners in the
aggregate otherwise would have been entitled if they had been
direct record holders of common stock on the record date, so
long as the nominee submits the appropriate rights certificates
and certifications and proper payment to the subscription agent.
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Beneficial Owners
If you are a beneficial owner of shares of our
common stock or rights that you hold through a nominee holder,
we will ask your broker, dealer or other nominee to notify you
of this rights offering. If you wish to sell or exercise your
rights, you will need to have your broker, dealer or other
nominee act for you. To indicate your decision with respect to
your rights, you should complete and return to your broker,
dealer or other nominee the form entitled Beneficial
Owners Election Form. You should receive this form from
your broker, dealer or other nominee with the other subscription
materials.
Procedures for DTC Participants
We expect that the rights will be eligible for
transfer through, and that your exercise of your basic
subscription privilege may be made through, the facilities of
DTC. If you exercise your basic subscription privilege through
DTC, we refer to your rights as DTC Exercised Rights. If you
hold DTC Exercised Rights, you may exercise your
oversubscription privilege by properly executing and delivering
to the subscription agent, at or prior to the expiration time, a
DTC participant oversubscription exercise form and a nominee
holder certification and making payment of the subscription
price for the number and series of shares of common stock for
which your oversubscription privilege is to be exercised. Please
call the information agent at
[(800) - ]
to obtain copies of the DTC participant oversubscription
exercise form and the nominee holder certification.
Determinations Regarding the Exercise of
Rights
We will decide all questions concerning the
timeliness, validity, form and eligibility of your exercise of
rights. Our decisions will be final and binding. We, in our sole
discretion, may waive any defect or irregularity, or permit a
defect or irregularity to be corrected within whatever time we
determine. We may reject the exercise of any of your rights
because of any defect or irregularity. Your subscription will
not be deemed to have been received or accepted until all
irregularities have been waived by us or cured by you within the
time we decide, in our sole discretion.
We reserve the right to reject your exercise of
rights if your exercise is not in accordance with the terms of
the rights offering or in proper form. Neither we nor the
subscription agent will have any duty to notify you of a defect
or irregularity in your exercise of the rights. We will not be
liable for failing to give you that notice. We will also not
accept your exercise of rights if our issuance of shares of
common stock pursuant to your exercise could be deemed unlawful
or materially burdensome. See Regulatory
Limitation and Compliance with State
Regulations Pertaining to the Rights Offering below.
No Revocation of Exercised Rights
Once you have exercised your basic subscription
privilege and, should you choose, your oversubscription
privilege, you may not revoke your exercise. Even if we extend
the expiration time, you may not revoke your exercise.
Subscription Agent
We have appointed
[ ]
as subscription agent for the rights offering. We will pay its
fees and expenses related to the rights offering.
Information Agent
You may direct any questions or requests for
assistance concerning the method of exercising your rights,
additional copies of this prospectus, the instructions, the
nominee holder certification, the notice of guaranteed delivery
or other subscription materials referred to herein, to the
information agent, at the following telephone number and address:
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Method of Transferring and Selling
Rights
We anticipate that the Series A rights and
Series B rights will be traded on the Nasdaq National
Market under the symbols
[ ]
and
[ ],
respectively. We expect that rights may be purchased or sold
through usual investment channels until the close of business on
the last trading day preceding the expiration time. However,
there has been no prior public market for the rights, and we
cannot assure you that a trading market for the rights will
develop or, if a market develops, that the market will remain
available throughout the subscription period. We also cannot
assure you of the prices at which the rights will trade, if at
all. If you do not exercise or sell your rights you will lose
any value inherent in the rights. See General
Considerations Regarding the Partial Exercise, Transfer or Sale
of Rights below.
Transfer of Rights
You may transfer rights in whole by endorsing the
rights certificate for transfer. Please follow the instructions
for transfer included in the information sent to you with your
rights certificate. If you wish to transfer only a portion of
the rights, you should deliver your properly endorsed rights
certificate to the subscription agent. With your rights
certificate, you should include instructions to register such
portion of the rights evidenced thereby in the name of the
transferee (and to issue a new rights certificate to the
transferee evidencing such transferred rights). You may only
transfer whole rights and not fractions of a right. If there is
sufficient time before the expiration of the rights offering,
the subscription agent will send you a new rights certificate
evidencing the balance of the rights issued to you but not
transferred to the transferee. You may also instruct the
subscription agent to send the rights certificate to one or more
additional transferees. If you wish to sell your remaining
rights, you may request that the subscription agent send you
certificates representing your remaining (whole) rights so
that you may sell them through your broker or dealer. You may
also request that the subscription agent sell your rights for
you, as described below.
If you wish to transfer all or a portion of your
rights, you should allow a sufficient amount of time prior to
the time the rights expire for the subscription agent to:
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instructions; and
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issue and transmit a new rights certificate to
your transferee or transferees with respect to transferred
rights, and to you with respect to any rights you retained.
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If you wish to transfer your rights to any person
other than a bank or broker, the signatures on your rights
certificate must be guaranteed by an eligible institution.
Sales of Rights Through the Subscription
Agent
If you choose not to sell your rights through
your broker or dealer, you may seek to sell your rights through
the subscription agent. If you wish to have the subscription
agent seek to sell your rights, you must deliver your properly
executed rights certificate, with appropriate instructions, to
the subscription agent. If you want the subscription agent to
seek to sell only a portion of your rights, you must send the
subscription agent instructions setting forth what you would
like done with the rights, along with your rights certificate.
If the subscription agent sells rights for you,
it will send you a check for the net proceeds from the sale of
any of your rights as soon as practicable after the expiration
time. If your rights can be sold, the sale will be deemed to
have been made at the weighted average net sale price of all
rights of the applicable series sold by the subscription agent.
The aggregate fees charged by the subscription agent for selling
rights will be deducted from the aggregate sale price for all
such rights in determining the weighted average net sale price
of all such rights. We cannot assure you, however, that a market
will develop for the rights or that the subscription agent will
be able to sell your rights.
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You must have your order to sell your rights to
the subscription agent before 11:00 a.m., New York City
time, on
[ ],
2004, the fifth business day before the expiration time. If less
than all sales orders received by the subscription agent are
filled, it will prorate the sales proceeds among you and the
other holders of rights of the same series based on the number
of rights of the applicable series that each holder has
instructed the subscription agent to sell during that period,
irrespective of when during the period the instructions are
received by it. The subscription agent is required to sell your
rights only if it is able to find buyers. If the subscription
agent cannot sell your rights by 5:00 p.m., New York City
time, on
[ ],
2004, the third business day before the expiration time, the
subscription agent will return your rights certificate to you by
overnight delivery.
If you sell your rights through your broker or
dealer, you will likely receive a different amount of proceeds
than if you sell the same amount of rights through the
subscription agent. If you sell your rights through your broker
or dealer instead of the subscription agent, your sales proceeds
will be the actual sales price of your rights rather than the
weighted average sales price described above.
General Considerations Regarding the Partial
Exercise, Transfer or Sale of Rights
The amount of time needed by your transferee to
exercise or sell its rights depends upon the method by which the
transferor delivers the rights certificates, the method of
payment made by the transferee and the number of transactions
which the holder instructs the subscription agent to effect. You
should also allow up to ten business days for your transferee to
exercise or sell the rights transferred to it. Neither we nor
the subscription agent will be liable to a transferee or
transferor of rights if rights certificates or any other
required documents are not received in time for exercise or sale
prior to the expiration time.
You will receive a new rights certificate upon a
partial exercise, transfer or sale of rights only if the
subscription agent receives your properly endorsed rights
certificate no later than 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on
[ ],
2004, five business days before the expiration time. The
subscription agent will not issue a new rights certificate if
your rights certificate is received after that time and date. If
your instructions and rights certificate are received by the
subscription agent after that time and date, you will not
receive a new rights certificate and therefore will not be able
to sell or exercise your remaining rights.
You are responsible for all commissions, fees and
other expenses (including brokerage commissions and transfer
taxes) incurred in connection with the purchase, sale or
exercise of your rights, except that we will pay any fees of the
subscription agent associated with the exercise of rights. Any
amounts you owe will be deducted from your account.
If you do not exercise your rights before the
expiration time, your rights will expire and will no longer be
exercisable.
Effect on Stock Options
As of
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2004, we had outstanding options to purchase
[ ]shares
of our Series A common stock and
[ ] shares
of our Series B common stock. All of our outstanding stock
options were issued pursuant to stock incentive plans. Holders
of options to purchase shares of our common stock, regardless of
series, will not receive rights. Rather, the incentive plan
committee of our board of directors will make such equitable
adjustments as it determines to be appropriate to preserve the
benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available
pursuant to the options.
No Recommendations to Rightsholders
Neither we nor our board of directors has made
any recommendation as to whether you should exercise or transfer
your rights. You should decide whether to transfer your rights,
subscribe for shares of our common stock, or simply take no
action with respect to your rights, based on your own assessment
of your best interests.
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Termination
There are no conditions to the consummation of
the rights offering. However, we may terminate the rights
offering for any reason at any time before the expiration time.
If we terminate the rights offering, we will promptly issue a
press release announcing the termination, and we will promptly
thereafter return all subscription payments. We will not pay
interest on, or deduct any amounts from, subscription payments
if we terminate the rights offering.
Foreign Shareholders
We will not mail rights certificates to
shareholders on the record date or to subsequent transferees
whose addresses are outside the United States. Instead, we will
have the subscription agent hold the rights certificates for
those holders accounts. To exercise their rights, foreign
holders must notify the subscription agent before
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on
[ ],
2004, three business days prior to the expiration time, and must
establish to the satisfaction of the subscription agent that
such exercise is permitted under applicable law. If a foreign
holder does not notify and provide acceptable instructions to
the subscription agent by such time (and if no contrary
instructions have been received), the rights will be sold,
subject to the subscription agents ability to find a
purchaser. Any such sales will be deemed to be effected at the
weighted average sale price of all rights sold by the
subscription agent. See Method of Transferring and
Selling Rights above. If the subscription agent sells the
rights, the subscription agent will remit a check for the net
proceeds from the sale of any rights to foreign holders by mail.
The proceeds, if any, resulting from the sales of rights of
holders whose addresses are not known by the subscription agent
or to whom delivery cannot be made will be held in an interest
bearing account. Any amount remaining unclaimed on the second
anniversary of the expiration time will be turned over to us.
Regulatory Limitation
We will not be required to issue to you shares of
our common stock pursuant to the rights offering if, in our
opinion, you would be required to obtain prior clearance or
approval from any state or federal regulatory authorities to own
or control such shares and if, at the expiration time, you have
not obtained such clearance or approval.
Issuance of Common Stock
Unless we earlier terminate the rights offering,
the subscription agent will issue to you the shares of the
applicable series of our common stock purchased by you in the
rights offering as soon as practicable after the expiration
time. The subscription agent will effect delivery of the
subscribed for shares of our common stock through the
subscription agents book-entry registration system by
mailing to each subscribing holder a statement of holdings
detailing the subscribing holders subscribed for shares of
our common stock and the method by which the subscribing holder
may access its account and, if desired, trade its shares. The
statement of holdings will also detail the method by which
shareholders may request to receive shares of our common stock
in certificated form.
Your payment of the aggregate subscription price
will be retained by the subscription agent and will not be
delivered to us, unless and until your subscription is accepted
and you are issued your subscribed for shares of our common
stock. We will not pay you any interest on funds paid to the
subscription agent, regardless of whether the funds are applied
to the subscription price or returned to you. You will have no
rights as a shareholder of our company with respect to your
subscribed for shares of our common stock until the shares are
delivered via the book-entry registration statement. Upon such
delivery, you will be deemed the owner of the shares you
purchased by exercise of your rights. Unless otherwise
instructed in the rights certificates, the shares issued to you
pursuant to your subscription will be registered in your name or
the name of your nominee, if applicable.
We will not issue any fractional rights or shares
of common stock.
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Shares of Common Stock Outstanding
As of
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2004, we had outstanding
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of our Series A common stock and
[ ] shares
of our Series B common stock. Based thereon and assuming
the rights offering is fully subscribed, immediately following
the completion of the rights offering:
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Series A common stock will increase by
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which represents a
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increase in the number of outstanding shares of our
Series A common stock; and
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the number of outstanding shares of our
Series B common stock will increase by
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which represents a
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increase in the number of outstanding shares of our
Series B common stock.
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Compliance with State Regulations Pertaining
to the Rights Offering
We are not making the rights offering in any
state or other jurisdiction in which it is unlawful to do so. We
will not sell or accept an offer to purchase shares of our
common stock from you if you are a resident of any state or
other jurisdiction in which the sale or offer of the rights
would be unlawful. We may delay the commencement of the rights
offering in certain states or other jurisdictions in order to
comply with the laws of those states or other jurisdictions.
However, we may decide, in our sole discretion, not to modify
the terms of the rights offering as may be requested by certain
states or other jurisdictions. If that happens and you are a
resident of the state or jurisdiction that requests the
modification, you will not be eligible to participate in the
rights offering. We do not expect that there will be any changes
in the terms of the rights offering.