Â鶹×îгöÆ· Announces Intention to Commence Partial Tender Offer for Shares of Live Nation Common Stock
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Â鶹×îгöÆ· ("Â鶹×îгöÆ·") today announced its intention to commence a partial tender offer to purchase up to 34,500,000 shares of the common stock (NYSE: LYV) of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. ("Live Nation") (including the associated share purchase rights), at a cash purchase price of $12 per share.  Â鶹×îгöÆ·, through its subsidiaries, currently owns approximately 14.6% of the outstanding shares of Live Nation common stock based on publicly available stock information. Â鶹×îгöÆ· acquired its Live Nation shares in exchange for its Ticketmaster Entertainment holdings in the Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger that closed yesterday.
The offer price represents approximately a 14.2% premium over the closing sale price on January 25, 2010 of $10.51.  If the tender offer is fully subscribed and completed, Â鶹×îгöÆ· would own approximately 34.9% of the outstanding shares of Live Nation common stock.  Â鶹×îгöÆ· is a party to a stockholder agreement with Live Nation that permits Â鶹×îгöÆ· to acquire up to 35% of the outstanding shares of Live Nation.
Â鶹×îгöÆ·'s purchase of Live Nation common stock in the tender offer will be for investment purposes.  Â鶹×îгöÆ· will attribute any shares it purchases in the tender offer to its Â鶹×îгöÆ· Capital group.  The Live Nation shares currently owned by Â鶹×îгöÆ· are attributed to its Â鶹×îгöÆ· Interactive group.
The terms and conditions of the tender offer will be described in an offer to purchase and related letter of transmittal that will be mailed to Live Nation stockholders when Â鶹×îгöÆ· commences its tender offer, which is expected to occur within five business days. The tender offer will be subject to customary conditions, including receipt of any required governmental approvals.  The tender offer will not be subject to a financing condition.
This press release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell shares of Live Nation.  As soon as Â鶹×îгöÆ· commences the tender offer, it will file a tender offer statement, including an offer to purchase, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  Â鶹×îгöÆ· will cause copies of the offer documents to be mailed to Live Nation's stockholders. Live Nation stockholders should read the tender offer documents carefully when they are available because they will contain important information that shareholders should consider before deciding whether to tender their shares. Once filed, the tender offer statement and other filed documents will be available for free at the SEC's web site (). Copies of these documents will also be available for free from the information agent identified in the offer to purchase after they are filed with the SEC.
About Â鶹×îгöÆ·
Â鶹×îгöÆ· owns interests in a broad range of electronic retailing, media, communications and entertainment businesses. Those interests are attributed to three tracking stock groups: (1) the Â鶹×îгöÆ· Interactive group (NASDAQ: LINTA, LINTB), which includes Â鶹×îгöÆ·'s interests in QVC, Provide Commerce, Backcountry.com, BUYSEASONS, Bodybuilding.com, IAC/InterActiveCorp, and Expedia, (2) the Â鶹×îгöÆ· Starz group (NASDAQ: LSTZA, LSTZB), which includes Â鶹×îгöÆ·'s interests in Starz Entertainment and ViaSat, Inc., and (3) the Â鶹×îгöÆ· Capital group (NASDAQ: LCAPA, LCAPB), which includes all businesses, assets and liabilities not attributed to the Interactive group or the Starz group including its subsidiaries Starz Media, LLC, Atlanta National League Baseball Club, Inc., and TruePosition, Inc., Â鶹×îгöÆ·'s interest in SIRIUS XM Radio, Inc., and minority equity investments in Time Warner Inc., Time Warner Cable and Sprint Nextel Corporation.
Contact: Courtnee Ulrich Â鶹×îгöÆ· (720) 875-5420
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Released January 26, 2010