Quince Therapeutics Adopts Limited Duration Stockholders Rights Plan
The Board adopted the Rights Plan following an unsolicited acquisition proposal and accumulation of Quince shares by certain investors. A Rights Plan will enable Quince’s Board and its management team to protect stockholders while fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities to review and evaluate strategic alternatives intended to maximize long-term value for all Quince stockholders. This will include consideration for the company’s previously stated prioritization of in-licensing and acquisition activities, as well as alternative options and proposals, as warranted. The company is in the process of retaining a financial advisor to advise and assist the Board with respect to its strategic alternatives and potential transactions.
The Rights Plan is similar to other plans adopted by publicly held companies in comparable circumstances. The Rights Plan is intended to enable all stockholders to realize the long-term value of their investment in Quince. The Rights Plan will reduce the likelihood that any entity, person, or group gains control of Quince through open market accumulation without paying all stockholders an appropriate control premium or without providing the Board sufficient time to make informed judgments and take actions that are in the best interests of stockholders. The Rights Plan does not prevent the Board from engaging with parties or accepting proposals if the Board believes that it is in the best interests of the company and its stockholders.
Under the Rights Plan, the rights will become exercisable only if an entity, person, or group acquires beneficial ownership of 10% or more of Quince’s outstanding common stock in a transaction not approved by the Board (or 15% in the case of passive institutional stockholders). In the event that the rights become exercisable due to the triggering ownership threshold being crossed, each right will entitle its holder (other than the person, entity, or group triggering the Rights Plan, whose rights will become void and will not be exercisable) to purchase one one-thousandth of a share of a new series of junior participating preferred stock at an exercise price of
Prior to the acquisition by a person or group of beneficial ownership of 10% or more of Quince’s common stock (or 15% or more in the case of passive institutional investors), the rights are redeemable for
Certain synthetic interests in securities created by derivative positions — whether or not such interests are considered to constitute beneficial ownership of the underlying common stock for reporting purposes under Regulation 13D of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended — are treated as beneficial ownership of the number of shares of Quince’s common stock equivalent to the economic exposure created by the derivative position.
Further details about the Rights Plan will be contained in a Form 8-K to be filed by the company with the
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