Company: THS
Filing Date: 2025-11-12
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001320695-25-000112
Chunk: 2

Company: TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-12
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 1.01
Chunk 2
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750,000. The Merger Agreement also provides that, upon termination of the Merger Agreement under specified circumstances, including a termination by TreeHouse because Investindustrial fails to consummate the Merger when required to do so, Investindustrial will pay TreeHouse a cash termination fee of $81,500,000.

Investindustrial has obtained debt and equity financing commitments necessary to complete the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. The Merger Agreement requires Investindustrial to use its reasonable best efforts to consummate and obtain financing on the terms and subject to the conditions described in its commitment letters. The Merger is not conditioned on Investindustrial’s receipt of financing. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, TreeHouse is required to provide Investindustrial with certain information and cooperation related to its debt financing.

The Merger Agreement has been included to provide stockholders with information regarding its terms. It is not intended to provide any other factual information about TreeHouse, Investindustrial, Merger Sub, or their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. The representations, warranties, and covenants contained in the Merger Agreement were made only for purposes of that agreement and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to the Merger Agreement, may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the parties (including being qualified by confidential disclosures made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties to the Merger Agreement instead of establishing these matters as facts), and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors. TreeHouse’s stockholders and other investors should not rely on the representations, warranties, and covenants contained in the Merger Agreement or any description thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of TreeHouse, Investindustrial, or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations, warranties, and covenants may change after the date of the Merger Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in public disclosures by TreeHouse. Investors should read the Merger Agreement together with the other information that TreeHouse publicly files in reports and statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC”).

Contingent Value Rights Agreement

At or prior to the closing of the Merger, TreeHouse, Investindustrial, the initial CVR committee members identified therein and a paying agent mutually agreeable to TreeHouse and Investindustrial will enter into a Contingent Value Rights Agreement (the