Item 8.01. Other Events
On January 11, 2013 at 5:00 p.m., New York City time (the Effective Time), Starz (formerly known as Liberty Media Corporation, Parent), the parent company of Starz, LLC (the Company), completed its previously announced spin-off (the Spin-Off) of its former wholly-owned subsidiary Liberty Media Corporation (formerly known as Liberty Spinco, Inc., Spinco).
The Spin-Off was accomplished through the distribution (the Distribution) by Parent, by means of a dividend, (i) to each holder of its Series A Liberty Capital common stock, of one share of Spincos Series A common stock for each outstanding share of Parents Series A Liberty Capital common stock held as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on January 10, 2013 (such date and time, the Record Date), and (ii) to each holder of its Series B Liberty Capital common stock, of one share of Spincos Series B common stock for each outstanding share of Parents Series B Liberty Capital common stock held as of the Record Date. In connection with the Spin-Off, and pursuant to an internal restructuring of Parent, Parents businesses, assets and liabilities other than those relating to the businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries were transferred to Spinco. Additionally, in connection with the Spin-Off, the Company distributed an aggregate of approximately $1.8 billion in cash to Spinco, a portion of which was distributed to Spinco prior to the Spin-Off.
Several agreements were entered into in connection with the Spin-Off (the Spin-Off Agreements):
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a Reorganization Agreement, dated as of January 10, 2013, by and between Parent and Spinco, which provides for, among other things, the principal corporate transactions required to effect the Spin-Off, certain conditions to the Spin-Off and provisions governing the relationship between Parent and Spinco with respect to and resulting from the Spin-Off;
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a Tax Sharing Agreement, dated as of January 11, 2013, between Parent and Spinco, which governs the allocation of taxes, tax benefits, tax items and tax-related losses between Parent and Spinco;
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a Services Agreement, dated as of January 11, 2013, by and between Parent and Spinco, which governs the provision by Spinco to Parent and by Parent to Spinco of specified services and benefits following the Spin-Off;
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a Facilities Sharing Agreement, dated as of January 11, 2013, by and between Parent and Liberty Property Holdings, Inc. (a subsidiary of Spinco, LPH), pursuant to which Parent shares certain office facilities with Spinco;
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two Aircraft Time Sharing Agreements, each dated as of January 11, 2013, by and between Parent and Spinco, which governs the lease for each of two aircraft from Spinco to Parent and the provision of fully qualified flight crew for all operations on a periodic, non-exclusive time sharing basis; and
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a Lease Agreement, dated as of January 11, 2013, by and between LPH, the Company, and, for the limited purposes described therein, Starz Entertainment, LLC, pursuant to which the Company will lease its headquarters building from LPH for a period of ten years, with successive five-year renewal periods at the option of the Company.
The section of the Information Statement included as Exhibit 99.1 to Amendment No. 3 to Spincos Registration Statement on Form 10, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 26, 2012 (File No. 001-35707), entitled Certain Relationships and Related Party TransactionsRelationships Between Spinco and Liberty Media/Starz and/or Liberty Interactive, which describes the material terms of the Spin-Off Agreements, is incorporated herein by reference. These descriptions are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the Spin-Off Agreements, which are filed as Exhibits 2.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
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