Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
First Amendment to Rights Agreement
Pursuant to the Rights Agreement dated as of February 28, 2008 (the Rights Agreement) between
LodgeNet Interactive Corporation (the Company) and Computershare Investor Services, LLC, as rights agent, one Right (a Right) is issued and attached to each outstanding share of the common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the Common Stock) of the Company. The Rights constitute a separate class of securities registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and entitle the holder of the Right, in certain circumstances, to purchase from the Company one one-thousandth of a share of Series A Participating Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the Series A Preferred Stock) or, in certain circumstances, to receive shares of Common Stock in lieu of exercising the Rights for the purchase of Series A Preferred Stock.
The Company is a party to an Investment Agreement dated December 30, 2012 (the Investment Agreement)
with Colony Capital, LLC and its affiliate, Col-L Acquisition, LLC (Colony), PAR Investment Partners, L.P. (PAR), and certain other investors (collectively, with Colony and PAR, the Investors), pursuant to which the Investors will invest $60 million of new capital in the Company, with an option to invest up to an additional $30 million to support a proposed recapitalization of the Company. The terms of the Investment Agreement are more fully described in the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 31, 2012.
In connection with the Investment Agreement, on January 7, 2013, the Company and the Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as successor in interest to Computershare Investor Services, LLC, as rights agent, amended the Rights Agreement by entering into that certain First Amendment to Rights Agreement (the Amendment).
The Amendment excludes the Investors, their Affiliates (as defined in the Investment Agreement), and each Purchaser Designee (as defined in the Investment Agreement) which signs a joinder agreement to the Investment Agreement from the definition of Acquiring Person as that term is defined in the Rights Agreement, solely as a result of transactions contemplated by Investment Agreement, so that the entry by the Investors into the Investment Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Investment Agreement does not and will not trigger the Series A Preferred Stock purchase rights or the right to receive Common Stock in lieu of exercising the Series A Preferred Stock purchase rights under the Rights Agreement.
The foregoing description of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Amendment, which is included as Exhibit 4.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.