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General and Description of the Business
3 Months Ended
Apr. 03, 2022
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
General and Description of the Business

(1) General and description of the business

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Holdings plc and its consolidated subsidiaries (“Ortho” or “the Company”) is a leading global provider of in-vitro diagnostics (“IVD”) solutions to the clinical laboratory and transfusion medicine communities. The Company maintains a commercial presence in more than 130 countries and territories. The Company’s instruments, assays, reagents and other consumables are used in hospitals, laboratories, clinics, blood banks and donor centers worldwide. The Company is globally operated with manufacturing facilities in the United States (“U.S.”) and the United Kingdom (“U.K.”) and with sales centers, administrative offices and warehouses located throughout the world.

Business Combination with Quidel

On December 22, 2021, the Company, Coronado Topco, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Coronado Topco”), Laguna Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Topco (“U.S. Merger Sub”), Orca Holdco, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Topco (“U.S. Holdco Sub”), Orca Holdco 2, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Holdco Sub (“U.S. Holdco Sub 2”) and Quidel Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Quidel”) entered into a Business Combination Agreement (the “Business Combination Agreement,” and the transactions contemplated thereby, the “Combinations”), pursuant to which, among other things and subject to the terms and conditions contained therein, (i) under a scheme of arrangement under UK corporate law, each issued and outstanding share of the Company will be acquired by a depository nominee (or transferred within the depository nominee) on behalf of Coronado Topco in exchange for (x) 0.1055 shares of common stock of Coronado Topco and (y) $7.14 in cash (the “Ortho Scheme”) and (ii) immediately after the consummation of the Ortho Scheme, U.S. Merger Sub will merge with and into Quidel, pursuant to which each issued and outstanding share of Quidel common stock will be converted into one share of Coronado Topco common stock, with Quidel surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Coronado Topco. The boards of directors of both the Company and Quidel have unanimously approved the terms of the Business Combination Agreement, which is expected to close during the first half of fiscal year 2022. Upon completion of the Combinations, which requires shareholder approval, the Company's shareholders are expected to own approximately 38% of Coronado Topco and Quidel stockholders are expected to own approximately 62% of Coronado Topco on a fully diluted basis, based on the respective capitalizations of the Company and Quidel as of the date the parties entered into the Business Combination Agreement.

In the event that the Business Combination Agreement is terminated by Ortho as a result of the occurrence of certain terms and conditions as specified therein, the Company must pay Quidel a termination fee of approximately $46.9 million, less any expenses reimbursable by Quidel pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement. If the Business Combination Agreement is terminated by Quidel as a result of the occurrence of certain terms and conditions as specified therein, the Company will receive approximately $207.8 million, less any expenses reimbursable by Ortho pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement.

Costs incurred related to the proposed transaction, including integration-related activities, were $5.7 million during the fiscal quarter ended April 3, 2022 and were recorded to Other operating expenses, net in the consolidated statement of operations.