-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, ML/aOR/QebFOf8ch+IXI3ekqhLYmBA9FSH8uW3Wd0cCPCtG3nCE0K8UYVoDOsZNv yj3axrq2IJw0rkOjYfd9Cg== 0001104659-08-021402.txt : 20080401 0001104659-08-021402.hdr.sgml : 20080401 20080401060129 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-08-021402 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: SC 14D9/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20080401 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080401 SUBJECT COMPANY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TAKE TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000946581 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE [7372] IRS NUMBER: 510350842 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1031 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: SC 14D9/A SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 005-52733 FILM NUMBER: 08727226 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 622 BROADWAY CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10012 BUSINESS PHONE: 646 536 2842 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 622 BROADWAY CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10012 FILED BY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TAKE TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000946581 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE [7372] IRS NUMBER: 510350842 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1031 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: SC 14D9/A BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 622 BROADWAY CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10012 BUSINESS PHONE: 646 536 2842 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 622 BROADWAY CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10012 SC 14D9/A 1 a08-9031_9sc14d9a.htm SC 14D9/A

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549

 

SCHEDULE 14D-9

 

 

SOLICITATION/RECOMMENDATION STATEMENT UNDER SECTION 14(d)(4)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
(Amendment No. 4)

 

TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE, INC.

(Name of Subject Company)

 

TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE, INC.

(Name of Person Filing Statement)

 

COMMON STOCK, PAR VALUE $0.01 PER SHARE

(Title of Class of Securities)

 

874054109

(CUSIP Number of Class of Securities)

 

Ben Feder
Chief Executive Officer
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
622 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
(646) 536-2842

(Name, address and telephone number of person authorized to receive
notices and communications on behalf of the person filing statement)

 

Copies to:

 

 

Seth D. Krauss, Esq.
Executive Vice President and
General Counsel
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
622 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
(646) 536-2842

 

Ori Solomon, Esq.
Proskauer Rose, LLP
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036-8299
(212) 969-3000

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 


 

 

This Amendment No. 4 to Schedule 14D-9 amends and supplements the Schedule 14D-9, originally filed by Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 26, 2008, as amended by Amendment Nos. 1, 2 and 3 thereto (the “Schedule 14D-9”), relating to the tender offer commenced by EA08 Acquisition Corp. (“Purchaser”), a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Electronic Arts Inc., a Delaware corporation, to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the “Shares”) at a purchase price of $26.00 net per Share in cash without interest, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated March 13, 2008 and in the related Letter of Transmittal contained in the Schedule TO filed by Purchaser with the SEC on March 13, 2008.  Such tender offer was extended by Purchaser to 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on Friday, April 18, 2008.  Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to them in the Schedule 14D-9.

 

ITEM 4. THE SOLICITATION OR RECOMMENDATION

 

Item 4 is hereby amended by adding thereto the following information.

 

On March 31, 2008, the Company provided the following statement to the press regarding the proxy voting recommendations by Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.:

 

“We are pleased that ISS, the world’s leading independent corporate governance and proxy voting advisory service with over 1,700 institutional clients worldwide, has recommended in favor of the re-election of Take-Two directors and other proposals recommended by the Board.”

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ Daniel P. Emerson

 

 

Daniel P. Emerson

 

 

Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Secretary

 

 

Dated:  March 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

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