Schedule 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. 1)
 
AnorMED Inc.
(Name of Subject Company)
AnorMED Inc.
(Name of Persons Filing Statement)
Common Shares
(Title of Class of Securities)
035910108
(CUSIP Number of Class of Securities)
William J. Adams
Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer,
Secretary and Treasurer
200-20353 64
th Avenue
Langley, British Columbia
Canada V2Y 1N5
(604) 530-1057

(Name, address and telephone number of person authorized to receive notices
and communications on behalf of filing persons)
Copies to:
     
R. Hector MacKay-Dunn, Q.C.
Ronald G. Murray
Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP
25
th Floor
700 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada V7Y 1B3
  Daniel M. Miller
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Suite 1605
777 Dunsmuir Street
P.O. Box 10444, Pacific Centre
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada V7Y 1K4
o    Check the box if the filing relates solely to preliminary communications made before the commencement of a tender offer.
 
 

 


 

     This Amendment No. 1 amends and supplements the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9 (as amended, the “Statement”) initially filed by AnorMED Inc. with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 5, 2006, relating to the tender offer (the “Genzyme Offer”) made by Dematal Corporation (“Dematal”), a Nova Scotia unlimited liability company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Genzyme Corporation (“Genzyme” and together with Dematal, the “Offerors”), a Massachusetts corporation, for all of the common shares of AnorMED. The terms and conditions of the Genzyme Offer are set forth in the Offer to Purchase and Circular of the Offerors, dated September 1, 2006 (the “Tender Offer Circular”). The Tender Offer Circular has been filed by the Offerors with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Schedule TO”), which includes information required to be reported under Rule 14d-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Schedule TO was initially filed by the Offerors on September 1, 2006.
     In connection with the Genzyme Offer, the Company’s board of directors has prepared a directors’ circular (the “Directors’ Circular”), dated September 5, 2006, pursuant to applicable securities laws in Canada and the United States. The Directors’ Circular will be mailed to AnorMED shareholders, is filed as an exhibit to this Statement and is incorporated by reference into this Statement in its entirety. Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Directors’ Circular.
Item 8.   ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
     Item 8 is hereby amended and supplemented as follows:
     On September 7, 2006, AnorMED announced that it expected that its common shares would begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Market on September 8, 2006.
Item 9.   EXHIBITS
     Item 9 is hereby amended and supplemented to include the following exhibits:
     
Exhibit   Description
(a)(2)(C)
  News release, dated September 7, 2006

 


 

SIGNATURES
     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.
Dated:  September 7, 2006
         
  ANORMED INC.
 
 
 
  By:   /s/  William J. Adams    
    Name:   William J. Adams   
    Title:   Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial
Officer, Secretary and Treasurer 
 

 


 

EXHIBIT INDEX
     
Exhibit   Description
(a)(2)(A)*
  Directors’ Circular, dated September 5, 2006
(a)(2)(B)*
  Press release of AnorMED Inc., dated September 5, 2006
(a)(2)(C)  
  News release, dated September 7, 2006
     
*
  previously filed