13D Filing: Corvex Capital and Pandora Media Inc. (P)

This Amendment No. 3 supplements the information set forth in the Schedule 13D filed by Corvex Management LP and Keith Meister with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on May 16, 2016, as previously amended (the “Schedule 13D”), relating to the shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Shares”), of Pandora Media, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Schedule 13D.

The information set forth in response to each separate Item below shall be deemed to be a response to all Items where such information is relevant. The Schedule 13D is supplementally amended as follows.

(a)-(b) Corvex may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of 11,412,824 Shares, which represent approximately 4.7% of the Issuer’s outstanding Shares.  By virtue of his position as control person of the general partner of Corvex, Mr. Meister may be considered to beneficially own such Shares.  The Reporting Persons may be deemed to have sole power to vote and sole power to dispose of such Shares.

The percentage calculated in the immediately foregoing paragraph is calculated based on a total of 242,621,114 Shares outstanding as of July 27, 2017, as reported in the Issuer’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on August 1, 2017.

The Reporting Persons’ advised Corvex Funds have entered into cash-settled swaps which represent economic exposure comparable to a notional interest in 3,695,715 Shares (representing economic exposure comparable to approximately 1.5% of the outstanding Shares).  Under the terms of the swaps, (i) the relevant Corvex entity will be obligated to pay to the counterparty any negative price performance of the specified notional number of Shares subject to the swaps as of the expiration date of such swaps, plus interest rates set forth in the applicable contracts, and (ii) the counterparty will be obligated to pay the relevant Corvex entity any positive price performance of the specified notional number of Shares subject to the swaps as of the expiration date of the swaps.  All balances will be settled in cash. The swaps do not give the Reporting Persons or Corvex Funds direct or indirect voting, investment or dispositive control over any securities of the Issuer and do not require the counterparty thereto to acquire, hold, vote or dispose of any securities of the Issuer.  Accordingly, the Reporting Persons disclaim any beneficial ownership of any Shares that may be referenced in the swap contracts or Shares or other securities or financial instruments that may be held from time to time by any counterparty to the contracts.

The Reporting Persons may be deemed to beneficially own $15,000,000 principal amount of the Issuer’s 1.75% Convertible Senior Note due 2020, which is convertible into Shares at a conversion ratio of 60.905 Shares per $1,000 principal amount (the “Convertible Note”).  The Reporting Persons cannot currently convert the Convertible Note into Shares as its convertibility is subject to certain material contingencies outside the control of the Reporting Persons, and the Issuer has the option in its sole discretion to settle a conversion of the Convertible Note in cash rather than Shares, and as a result the Reporting Persons do not consider the Shares underlying the Convertible Note as being beneficially owned by them.

(c) On September 27, 2017, the Reporting Persons on behalf of the Corvex Funds sold 7,000,000 Shares in a single block trade for $7.85 per Share (inclusive of commissions).  Except as set forth herein, there have been no transactions in the Shares during the sixty days prior to the date hereof by any of the Reporting Persons.

(d) The limited partners of (or investors in) each of the private investment funds for which Corvex or its affiliates acts as general partner and/or investment adviser have the right to participate in the receipt of dividends from, or proceeds from the sale of, the Shares held for the accounts of their respective funds in accordance with their respective limited partnership interests (or investment percentages) in their respective funds.

(e) On September 27, 2017, the Reporting Persons ceased to be the beneficial owners of more than 5% of the Shares of the Issuer.