SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

SCHEDULE TO

(RULE 14d-100)

 

TENDER OFFER STATEMENT UNDER SECTION 14(d)(1) OR 13(e)(1)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Amendment No. 3

 

THORATEC CORPORATION

(Name of Subject Company (Issuer))

 

THORATEC CORPORATION
(Name of Filing Person (Issuer))

 

Senior Subordinated Convertible Notes due 2034
(Title of Class of Securities)

 

885175 AA 7 and 885175 AB 5
(CUSIP Numbers of Class of Securities)

 

David A. Lehman

 

with copy to:

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Thoratec Corporation,

6035 Stoneridge Drive

Pleasanton, California 94588

(925) 847-8600

 

Michael A. Treska

Latham & Watkins LLP

650 Town Center Drive, 20th Floor

Costa Mesa, California 92625

(714) 540-1235

(Name, address and telephone number of person

authorized to receive notices and communications

on behalf of filing person)

 

 

 

CALCULATION OF FILING FEE

 

Transaction Valuation*:

 

Amount of Filing Fee**:

$141,400,074.36

 

$16,417

 

*

Calculated solely for purposes of determining the filing fee. The purchase price of the Senior Subordinated Convertible Notes due 2034 (the “Securities”), as described herein, is $580.98 per $1,000 principal amount at maturity outstanding. As of April 13, 2011 there was $243,382,000 aggregate principal amount at maturity of Securities outstanding, resulting in an aggregate maximum purchase price of $141,400.074.36.

 

 

**

The amount of the filing fee was calculated in accordance with Rule 0-11 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and equals $116.10 for each $1,000,000 of the value of the transaction.

 

 

o

Check the box if any part of the fee is offset as provided by Rule 0-11(a)(2) and identify the filing with which the offsetting fee was previously paid. Identify the previous filing by registration statement number, or the Form or Schedule and the date of its filing.

 

Amount Previously Paid: Not applicable

 

Filing Party: Not applicable

Form or Registration No.: Not applicable

 

Date Filed: Not applicable

 

o

Check the box if the filing relates solely to preliminary communications made before the commencement of a tender offer.

 

Check the appropriate boxes to designate any transactions to which the statement relates:

 

o

third-party tender offer subject to Rule 14d-1.

 

 

x

issuer tender offer subject to Rule 13e-4.

 

 

o

going-private transaction subject to Rule 13e-3.

 

 

o

Amendment to Schedule 13D under Rule 13d-2.

 

Check the following box if the filing is a final amendment reporting the results of the tender offer: x

 

 

 



 

INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT

 

This Amendment No. 3 (the “Amendment”) amends and supplements the Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO (together with any amendments and supplements thereto, the “Schedule TO”) originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 2011 by Thoratec Corporation, a California corporation (the “Company”), with respect to the right of each holder (the “Holder”) of the Company’s Senior Subordinated Convertible Notes due 2034 (the “Securities”) to sell, and the obligation of the Company to purchase the Securities, as set forth in the Company’s Put Right Purchase Offer to Holders of Senior Subordinated Convertible Notes due 2034, dated April 15, 2011 (the “Put Right Purchase Offer”), and the related notice materials filed as exhibits to the Schedule TO (which Put Right Purchase Offer and related notice materials, as amended or supplemented from time to time, collectively constitute the “Put Option”).

 

This Amendment is the final amendment to the Schedule TO.  The Schedule TO, as amended and supplemented, is intended to satisfy the filing and disclosure requirements of Rule 13e-4(c)(2) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

The Put Option expired at midnight, New York City time, on Friday, May 13, 2011.  Based on final information provided to the Company by U.S. Bank National Association, the trustee and paying agent, no Securities were tendered and accepted for purchase in the Put Option.

 

Items 1 - 11.

 

Not applicable

 

Item 12. Exhibits.

 

(a)(1)(A)

 

Put Right Purchase Offer to Holders of Senior Subordinated Convertible Notes due 2034, dated April 15, 2011.*

 

 

 

(b)

 

Not applicable.

 

 

 

(d)(1)

 

Indenture, dated as of May 24, 2004, between the Company, as issuer, and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended July 3, 2004 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 12, 2004. *

 

 

 

(g)

 

Not applicable.

 

 

 

(h)

 

Not applicable.

 


*              Previously filed.

 

Item 13. Information Required by Schedule 13E-3

 

Not applicable

 

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SIGNATURE

 

After due inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

 

 

 

THORATEC CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ David A. Lehman

 

Name:

David A. Lehman

 

Title:

Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and Secretary

 

 

 

 

Dated:

May 16, 2011

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

(a)(1)(A)

 

Put Right Purchase Offer to Holders of Senior Subordinated Convertible Notes due 2034, dated April 15, 2011.*

 

 

 

(b)

 

Not applicable.

 

 

 

(d)(1)

 

Indenture, dated as of May 24, 2004, between the Company, as issuer, and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended July 3, 2004 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 12, 2004. *

 

 

 

(g)

 

Not applicable.

 

 

 

(h)

 

Not applicable.

 


*              Previously filed.

 

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