Emulex reports acceptances of 88 Percent of Endace shares

Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the leading provider of converged networking solutions, and Endace Limited (LSE:EDA), a leading supplier of network visibility infrastructure products, announced today that acceptances have been received for 88 percent of the shares in Endace. Emulex has declared the Offer unconditional as to the level of acceptances, and has made an extension of the offer period by 14 days, to 1 p.m. London time on February 26, 2013 for the remaining shareholders to submit their shares to accept the Offer. Emulex will not further extend the offer period without declaring the Offer wholly unconditional.

“With this announcement, we have taken one more significant step toward the completion of the acquisition of Endace, and we look forward to welcoming the Endace team and obtaining complete ownership of Endace,” said Jim McCluney, chief executive officer (CEO) of Emulex. “The acquisition of Endace doubles our total addressable market and places Emulex in another high-margin, high-growth market, enhancing our ability to deliver industry-leading solutions to connect, monitor and manage high-performance networks.”

Mike Riley, CEO of Endace, said, “We look forward to joining the Emulex team and moving forward with the next step in our strategy to become the market leader in network visibility solutions. The combined capabilities and technical depth of Emulex and Endace will enable us to deliver true end-to-end network management, expand our global reach and better support our customers.”

By declaring the Offer unconditional as to the level of acceptances, Emulex has waived the minimum acceptance condition, which had been stated in the Offer to be holding or controlling 90 percent or more of the voting rights in Endace.

Emulex has made no commitment to purchase outstanding shares of Endace after February 26, 2013, unless Emulex reaches ownership of 90 percent of the Endace shares, in which case the New Zealand Takeovers Code (NZTC) includes a requirement for Emulex to provide an acquisition notice stating either (a) that remaining Endace shares must be sold to Emulex; or (b) that remaining Endace shareholders may sell their remaining Endace shares to Emulex. The 88.4 percent of shares received by February 12, 2013 will be paid, should the Offer be completed, at the offer price of GBP 5.00 per share, for a total of GBP 67,306,715, which is equal to USD 106,084,726 at the current exchange rate of GBP 0.634 per USD. All of the Endace employee stock options will be purchased, should the Offer be completed, for GBP 4,542,429, which is equal to USD 7,159,498 at the current exchange rate. If the remaining11.6 percent of the Endace shares are submitted by the February 26, 2013 offer period end date, then an additional payment of GBP 8,793,625 will be made should the Offer be completed, which is equal to USD 13,859,974 at the current exchange rate.

The Offer was made pursuant to the NZTC, since Endace is a New Zealand company. The applicable NZTC rule allows, since Emulex declared the Offer unconditional as to the level of acceptances, that Emulex provide a further extension notice before the end of the offer period which had been set for 1 p.m. London time on February 12, 2013. The offer period has been varied to be until 1 p.m. London time on February 26, 2013. The applicable NZTC rule provides that the Offer must remain open for at least 14 days after a variation notice has been sent, and the Offer will not be extended beyond this date.

A copy of Emulex’s Offer, Endace’s response (including the Endace Board recommendation), and the Independent Adviser’s report prepared by Grant Samuel for Endace was sent to Endace shareholders and option holders. Copies of those documents are available from the Endace web site (www.endace.com), and from the Emulex web site (www.emulex.com) through the Emulex Form 8-K filed on December 21, 2012.

The Grant Samuel report concludes that if the listing of Endace shares on the AIM is cancelled then “this will make trading of the remaining Endace shares very difficult…[t]he closer the Emulex shareholding gets to 90% the lower the liquidity of Endace shares will be” (page 29). The Grant Samuel report states that “Emulex cannot acquire any further shares in Endace for a period of twelve months [after the offer period expires] without making another formal takeover Offer for all or some of the remaining shares in [Endace], or without shareholder approval. However, from twelve months after the Emulex Offer closes, Emulex will be able to utilise the ‘creep’ provisions of the Takeovers Code to purchase up to a further 5% of Endace per annum.” (page 30). However, Emulex has made no commitment to purchase any additional Endace shares after February 26, 2013.

About Emulex
Emulex, the leader in converged networking solutions, provides enterprise-class connectivity for servers, networks and storage devices within the data center. The Company's product portfolio of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters, 10Gb Ethernet Network Interface Cards, Ethernet-based Converged Network Adapters, controllers, embedded bridges and switches, and connectivity management software are proven, tested and trusted by the world's largest and most demanding IT environments. Emulex solutions are used and offered by the industry's leading server and storage OEMs including, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Huawei, IBM, NEC, NetApp and Oracle. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif. and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. More information about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is available at www.Emulex.com.

About Endace
Endace provides world-leading network visibility infrastructure, which is trusted by some of the world’s largest organisations to accelerate their response to network and security problems.
Endace Intelligent Network Recorders guarantee to capture, index and record 100-percent of network traffic while scaling from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps. EndaceVision is Endace's proprietary web-based application that enables engineers to visualise, search and retrieve network traffic from any Endace Recorder anywhere across the network.

Endace's marketing headquarters are in Sunnyvale, California. R&D is in Auckland, New Zealand. Sales offices across the US, in Reading, UK and Sydney, Australia provide support for customers.
Quoted on London's AIM, the stock code is LSE: EDA.L