GTCR Completes Acquisition Of Vocus

(RTTNews) - Private equity firm GTCR said Friday that it has completed the acquisition of cloud-based public relations and marketing software maker Vocus, Inc. (VOCS).

The tender offer by GTCR's affiliate, GTCR Valor Merger Sub, Inc., for all outstanding shares of Vocus's common stock expired at 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on May 30.

American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, the depositary for the tender offer, advised that, as of the expiration time, 18,820,894 shares of Vocus common stock were validly tendered and not properly withdrawn in the offer. All shares validly tendered and not properly withdrawn were accepted for purchase and were paid for by Merger Sub. Immediately following its acceptance of shares tendered in the offer, Merger Sub acquired, pursuant to an agreement with JMI Equity Fund VI, L.P, all of the outstanding shares of Vocus's Series A Convertible Preferred Stock for its stated value of $77.3 million. Merger Sub also exercised the "top-up" option granted under the previously announced merger agreement, pursuant to which Vocus issued shares to Merger Sub at the offer price of $18.00 per share in an amount sufficient to enable Merger Sub to effect a short-form merger.

As a result of the purchase of shares in the offer, the purchase of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and the purchase of shares pursuant to the "top-up" option, Merger Sub had sufficient ownership to approve its contemplated merger with Vocus without the affirmative vote of any stockholder of Vocus.

Accordingly, affiliates of GTCR effected a short-form merger in which Merger Sub merged with and into Vocus, with Vocus surviving the merger and continuing as a wholly owned subsidiary of GTCR Valor Companies, Inc. Each Vocus share not previously purchased in the offer was converted in the merger into the right to receive, subject to appraisal rights, the same $18.00 per share price, net to the seller in cash, without interest and subject to any applicable tax withholding, that was paid in the offer.

May 30 is the last day Vocus shares trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market.