Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-07-17
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001140361-25-026139
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Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-17
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 1.01
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Item 1.01.      Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.  

On July 15, 2025, Synopsys, Inc. (“ Synopsys”),
ANSYS, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Ansys”), and ALTA Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Synopsys (“ Merger Sub”), entered into an amendment (the “ Amendment”) to the
Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of January 15, 2024 (the “ Merger Agreement”), by and among Synopsys, Ansys and Merger Sub. Capitalized terms used
herein without definition have the meanings specified in the Merger Agreement.

The Amendment changed the End Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement) to August 15, 2025 and provided that if, on August 15, 2025,
certain closing conditions were not satisfied or waived, then either Synopsys or Ansys could extend the End Date to November 14, 2025.

Other than as expressly modified pursuant to the Amendment, the Merger Agreement remains in full force and effect as originally executed
on January 15, 2024. The foregoing description of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the Amendment attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K,
which is incorporated herein by reference.