Company: SSUP
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001140361-25-027895
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Company: SUPERIOR INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form: PREM14A
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es and, on behalf of the Company, would provide them with due diligence information reflecting the Company’s initial and preliminary views on the anticipated impact of the same, with the goal of restarting the sale process that had been previously paused and receiving new indications of interests from such potential buyers.

On April 14, 2025, the Board held a meeting attended by the Company’s management and representatives of each of Lazard and Weil at which, among other things, the Board was provided with an update regarding the Customer Losses and the impact thereof, including on the Company’s liquidity position, as well as discussions with Oaktree and certain of the financial sponsors who had submitted the Proposals. The representatives of Lazard discussed with the Board certain concerns raised by the financial sponsors, including the recently implemented tariffs, and informed the Board that formal feedback from each of the financial sponsors was expected within a few days, and that such feedback would be provided to the Board.

Later on April 14, 2025, members of the Company’s management and representatives of Lazard held discussions with three (3) of the financial sponsors who had submitted the Proposals. Between April 15, 2025 and April 23, 2025, at the direction of the Company’s management, representatives of Lazard had follow-up discussions with each of those financial sponsors.

On April 24, 2025, the Company, after consultation with Lazard, provided the Term Loan Lenders with a preliminary view of the Company’s revised business plan for the remainder of 2025, which accounted for the volume impact of the Customer Losses. This revised business plan indicated liquidity challenges for the Company and, as a result, the Company needed covenant relief from its lenders. In addition, the Company’s preliminary view of its revised business plan suggested that the existing capital structure of the Company was not viable over the longer-term, necessitating a broader capital structure solution.

Beginning on April 24, 2025, on behalf of the Company, the Company authorized representatives of Lazard to provide representatives of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (“Paul Weiss”), legal counsel to the

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Term Loan Lenders, with access to an electronic data room for detailed legal due diligence review in respect of a potential transaction. From April 24, 2025 to July 8, 2025, the Term Loan Lenders and their advisors conducted due diligence on the Company, and numerous