Fidelity & Guaranty Life (FGL)

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Fidelity & Guaranty Life entered into amendment with agreement and plan of merger with Anbang (2/09/17)

As previously announced, Fidelity & Guaranty Life, a Delaware corporation (NYSE: FGL; the “Company”), is a party to an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended on November 3, 2016, the “Merger Agreement”, and the merger contemplated thereby, the “Merger”), with Anbang Insurance Group Co., Ltd., a joint-stock insurance company established in the People’s Republic of China (“Anbang”), AB Infinity Holding, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anbang (“Parent”), and AB Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, either Parent or the Company could have terminated the agreement if the closing of the Merger had not occurred on or prior to February 8, 2017 (the “Outside Termination Date”).

On February 9, 2017, the Company entered into Amendment No. 2 to Agreement and Plan of Merger (“Amendment No. 2”) with Anbang, Parent and Merger Sub by extending the Outside Termination Date from February 8, 2017 to April 17, 2017. Under the terms of Amendment No. 2, the Outside Termination Date will be further extended to May 31, 2017 in the event that the Iowa Insurance Commissioner has, on or prior to April 17, 2017, publicly noticed a public hearing for the “Form A” change of control approval required by the Iowa Insurance Division. The Company and Anbang continue to work to close the Merger, subject to satisfaction or waiver of all required closing conditions. Amendment No. 2 further permits the Company to solicit, respond to, evaluate and negotiate any competing offers, provided that the Company is not permitted to enter into a definitive agreement with respect to any such competing offers during the extension period. There can be no assurance that this process will result in an alternative proposal.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585064/000119312517035438/d326196d8k.htm