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Reclassifications
Certain reclassifications of the 2006 and 2007 amounts have been made to conform to the
2008 presentation.
2. Merger
On March 11, 2007, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the
“Merger Agreement”) with Buck Holdings L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Parent”), and
Buck, a Tennessee corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. Parent is and Buck was
(prior to the Merger) controlled by investment funds affiliated with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &
Co., L.P. (“KKR”). On July 6, 2007, the transaction was consummated through a merger (the
“Merger”) of Buck with and into the Company. The Company survived the Merger as a
subsidiary of Parent. The Company’ s results of operations after July 6, 2007 include the effects
of the Merger.
The aggregate purchase price was approximately $7.1 billion, including direct costs of
the Merger, and was funded primarily through debt financings as described more fully below in
Note 6 and cash equity contributions from KKR, GS Capital Partners VI Fund, L.P. and
affiliated funds (affiliates of Goldman, Sachs & Co.), Citi Private Equity, Wellington
Management Company, LLP, CPP Investment Board (USRE II) Inc., and other equity co-
investors (collectively, the “Investors”) of approximately $2.8 billion (553.4 million shares of
new common stock, $0.50 par value per share, valued at $5.00 per share). Also in connection
with the Merger, certain of the Company’ s management employees invested in and were issued
new shares, representing less than 1% of the outstanding shares, in the Company. Pursuant to
the terms of the Merger Agreement, the former holders of the Predecessor’ s common stock, par
value $0.50 per share, received $22.00 per share, or approximately $6.9 billion, and all such
shares were acquired as a result of the Merger. As of January 30, 2009 and February 1, 2008,
there were approximately 556,227,947 and 555,481,897 shares of Company common stock
outstanding, respectively, a portion of which is redeemable as further discussed below in Note
10.
As discussed in Note 1, the Merger was accounted for as a reverse acquisition in
accordance with the purchase accounting provisions of SFAS 141, “Business Combinations”.
Because of this accounting treatment, the Company’ s assets and liabilities have properly been
accounted for at their estimated fair values as of the Merger date. The aggregate purchase price
has been allocated to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based
upon an assessment of their relative fair values as of the Merger date.