Copart, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPRT) announced today the final results of its
tender offer to purchase up to 10,526,315 shares of its common stock at
a price of $38.00 per share, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City
time, on Friday, January 14, 2011.
Copart has accepted for purchase 12,172,088 shares of its common stock,
including all "odd lots” properly tendered, at a purchase price of
$38.00 per share, for a total cost of approximately $462.5 million. The
shares accepted for purchase are comprised of the 10,526,315 shares
Copart offered to purchase and an additional 1,645,773 shares purchased
pursuant to Copart’s right to purchase additional shares up to 2% of its
outstanding shares, and represent approximately 14.8% of Copart’s issued
and outstanding shares as of January 14, 2011. Based on the final
tabulation by Computershare Trust Company, N.A., the Depositary for the
tender offer, 20,516,534 shares of Copart common stock were properly
tendered and not withdrawn (excluding any conditional tenders that were
not accepted due to the specified condition not being satisfied). Copart
has been informed by the Depositary that, after giving effect to the
priority for "odd lots,” the final proration factor is approximately
59.2%.
The Depositary will promptly issue payment for the shares validly
tendered and accepted for purchase and will return all other shares
tendered.
Georgeson Inc. is acting as the Information Agent, and the Depositary is
Computershare Trust Company, N.A. For questions and information, please
call the Information Agent toll free at (800) 223-2064 (banks and
brokers call collect at (212) 440-9800).
About Copart
Copart, founded in 1982, provides vehicle sellers with a full range of
remarketing services to process and sell salvage and clean title
vehicles to dealers, dismantlers, rebuilders, exporters and, in some
states, to end users. Copart remarkets the vehicles through Internet
sales utilizing its patented VB2 technology. Copart sells
vehicles on behalf of insurance companies, banks, finance companies,
fleet operators, dealers, car dealerships, the general public and
others. Copart currently operates 152 facilities in the United States,
Canada and the United Kingdom. Salvage vehicles are either damaged
vehicles deemed a total loss for insurance or business purposes or are
recovered stolen vehicles for which an insurance settlement with the
vehicle owner has already been made. For more information, or to become
a member, visit www.copart.com.
