Emulex Rejects Latest Broadcom’s Bid

Emulex Corporation announced that its Board of Directors has responded to the revised offer by Broadcom Corporation to acquire Emulex for $11.00 per share in cash, and unanimously rejected the offer.

After a thorough review of the Broadcom revised offer with the assistance of its financial and legal advisors, Goldman Sachs & Co. and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, respectively, the Board determined that the offer significantly undervalues Emulex’s long-term prospects, is inadequate, and is not in the best interests of Emulex and its stockholders. The Board therefore recommends that Emulex stockholders not tender their shares into the offer. The Company also announced four new tier-one original equipment manufacturer (OEM) product design wins.

"Throughout our review of Broadcom’s offers, the Board has been focused first and foremost on serving the best interests of Emulex stockholders," said Paul Folino, Executive Chairman. "We unanimously believe Emulex will deliver significantly more value than Broadcom’s revised offer through the Company’s rapidly developing converged networking business and solid execution in our host server and embedded storage markets. While the Board is very enthusiastic about Emulex’s future prospects and will continue to focus on executing the Company’s current strategy, consistent with the Board’s fiduciary duties we would of course give full consideration to a bona fide offer from any party that reflects the full value of the Company."

Jim McCluney, President and Chief Executive Officer, said: "Underscoring the success of our strategic initiatives, we recently secured two new tier-one 10Gb/s Ethernet OneConnect Converged Network Adapter design wins, adding to the twelve wins that we disclosed in May. In recent weeks, we also secured two new OEM design wins for our LightPulse Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters. These new design wins further validate our projections of $600 million in revenue and $1.45 in non-GAAP earnings per share in fiscal year 2012, and reinforce the additional upside opportunities available to the Company. We are also pleased to announce today preliminary revenue and fully diluted EPS results for the fourth quarter that are at the high end of our guidance. We believe this solid performance demonstrates our ability to execute against our guidance."