Chrysler 2014 Annual Report Download - page 149

2014 | ANNUAL REPORT
Consolidated
Financial Statements
Notes to the Consolidated
Financial Statements
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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
At December 31, 2014 and 2013
PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES
The FCA Merger
On January 29, 2014, the Board of Directors of Fiat S.p.A. (“Fiat”) approved a proposed corporate reorganization
resulting in the formation of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. and decided to establish Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V.,
organized in the Netherlands, as the parent of the Group with its principal executive offices in the United Kingdom.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. was incorporated as a public limited liability company (naamloze vennootschap) under
the laws of the Netherlands on April 1, 2014 under the name Fiat Investments N.V.
On June 15, 2014, the Board of Directors of Fiat approved the terms of a cross-border legal merger of Fiat into its 100
percent owned direct subsidiary Fiat Investments N.V. (the “Merger”), subject to several conditions precedent. At that
time, Fiat ordinary shares were listed on the Mercato Telematico Azionario (“MTA”) organized and managed by Borsa
Italiana S.p.A, as well as Euronext Paris and Frankfurt stock exchange. On October 7, 2014, Fiat announced that all
conditions precedent for the completion of the Merger were satisfied:
Fiat shareholders had voted and approved the Merger at their extraordinary general meeting held on August 1,
2014. The New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) had provided notice that the listing of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
N.V. common shares was approved on October 6, 2014 subject to issuance of these shares upon effectiveness of
the Merger. On the same day Borsa Italiana S.p.A. had approved the listing of the common shares of Fiat Chrysler
Automobiles N.V. on the MTA,
the creditors’ opposition period provided under the Italian law had expired on October 4, 2014, and no creditors’
oppositions were filed,
exercise of the Cash Exit Rights by Fiat shareholders resulted in a total exercise of 60,002,027 Fiat shares,
equivalent to an aggregate amount of €464 million at the €7.727 per share exit price, and
pursuant to the Italian Civil Code, a total of 60,002,027 Fiat shares (equivalent to an aggregate amount of €464
million at the €7.727 per share exit price) were offered to Fiat shareholders not having exercised the Cash Exit
Rights. On October 7, 2014, at the completion of the offer period, Fiat shareholders elected to purchase 6,085,630
shares out of the total of 60,002,027 shares for a total of €47 million; as a result, concurrent with the Merger,
on October 12, 2014, 53,916,397 Fiat shares were canceled in the Merger with a resulting net aggregate cash
disbursement of €417 million.
The Merger was completed and became effective on October 12, 2014. The Merger, which took the form of a reverse
merger resulted in Fiat Investments N.V. being the surviving entity which was then renamed Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
N.V. (“FCA”). On October 13, 2014, FCA common shares commenced trading on the NYSE and on the MTA. The last
day of trading of Fiat ordinary shares on the MTA, Euronext France and Deutsche Börse was October 10, 2014. The
Merger is recognized in FCA’s Consolidated financial statements from January 1, 2014 and FCA, as successor of Fiat,
is the parent company. As the Merger is a business combination in which all of the combining entities are controlled
ultimately by the same party both before and after the business combination, and based on the fact that the control is
not transitory, the transition was deemed to be a combination of entities under common control and therefore outside
the scope of IFRS 3R - Business Combinations and IFRIC 17 - Distributions of Non-cash Assets to Owners. As a
result, the Merger was accounted for without adjusting the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities involved in the
transaction and did not have an impact on the Consolidated financial statements.