UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE
April 26, 2018
By E-Mail
Robert Leclerc, Esq.
King & Spalding LLP
1185 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Re: Xerox Corporation
PREC14A Filed on April 18, 2018
Soliciting Material filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12 on April
16 and 17, 2018
Filed by Darwin Deason, et al.
File No. 001-04471
Dear Mr. Leclerc:
We have reviewed the filings listed above and have the following
comments. In some of
our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better
understand your
disclosure.
Please respond to this letter by amending your filings, by providing
the requested
information, or by advising us when you will provide the requested response.
If you do not
believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances or do not believe
an amendment is
appropriate, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing any amendment to your filings and the information you
provide in
response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Soliciting Material Filed Pursuant to Rule 14a-12 on April 16, 2018
Exhibit 1
Exhibit 99.3
1. Each statement or assertion of opinion or belief must be clearly
characterized as such,
and a reasonable factual basis must exist for each such opinion or
belief. Support for
opinions or beliefs should be self-evident, disclosed in the proxy
statement or provided to
the staff on a supplemental basis. Please provide support for the
following statement
supplementally:
On page 1 of the slide presentation entitled "Darwin Deason
Amended Complaints
(Redacted)*" you state "[s]cores of documents remain improperly
withheld..."
Robert Leclerc, Esq.
King & Spalding LLP
April 26, 2017
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Soliciting Material Filed Pursuant to Rule 14a-12 on April 17, 2018
Exhibits 1 and 2 to Exhibit 1
2. See our last comment above. In future filings, the following statements
or types of
statements should be characterized as a belief, supported by facts, or
avoided:
On page 1 of the letter to shareholders, you state "[b]oth the
substance of the
proposed value-destroying transaction and the conflict-tainted
process..."
On slide 3, you state "...fight publicly against the
self-interested, value-destroying
entrenchment tactics..." and on slide 12 you state "never wanted to
pursue for their
own selfish reasons."
On slides 6 and 15, you state "...conflicted Xerox CEO, who betrayed
shareholders
by `serving as a loyal agent of the acquirer'..."
3. Disclosure on slide 11 states that "[t]his intentional deceit prevented
shareholders..."
You must avoid issuing statements that directly or indirectly impugn the
character,
integrity or personal reputation or make charges of illegal, improper or
immoral conduct
without factual foundation. Please provide us with or disclose the
factual foundation for
this statement. In this regard, note that the factual foundation for such
assertion must be
reasonable. Refer to Rule 14a-9.
Preliminary Proxy Statement Filed on April 18, 2018
Participants in the Solicitation of Proxies, page 6
4. To the extent not provided, please provide the information required by
Item 5(b)(1)(i),
Item 5(b)(1)(ii), Item 5(b)(1)(ix), Item 5(b)(1)(x) and Item 5(b)(1)(xi)
of Schedule 14A
for each participant and, where applicable, each participant's
associates.
Background to the Solicitation, page 10
5. We note the disclosure in the Schedule 13D which states that "[t]he
Reporting Persons
intend to have discussions with representatives of the Issuer's
management and board of
directors relating to improving operational performance and pursuing
strategic
alternatives, as well as the possibility of board representation." Please
expand your
disclosure to include any other material contacts you had with Xerox,
both before and
after the filing of the Schedule 13D, to provide all necessary context
for your interactions
with Xerox. As an example only, we note from Icahn's open letter to Xerox
shareholders
dated December 12, 2017 and filed as soliciting material on the same date
Mr. Icahn's
assertion that: "the primary reason Xerox stock is up 30% year-to-date is
the Conduent
spin-off that I spent over a year fighting for." However, there is no
disclosure detailing
Robert Leclerc, Esq.
King & Spalding LLP
April 26, 2017
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the discussions between Icahn and Xerox which prompted the announcement
of the spin-
off on January 29, 2016.
6. Disclosure on page 11 states that in late November 2017 Icahn learned
that certain
members of the Board were advocating that the Company abruptly and
dramatically
change course on a number of significant issues, which issues you later
discussed with
Mr. Keegan and appear to have been a major factor in Mr. Christodoro's
resignation from
the Board. Please expand your disclosure to describe what these abrupt
and dramatic
changes were.
Proposal 1 Election of Directors, page 13
7. Please elaborate upon the Nominees' intent to effect "positive change" at
the Company to
discuss specific plans or intentions, to the extent known. To the extent
you do not have
current plans or intentions, so state.
8. Please disclose Mr. Christodoro's principal occupation or employment
following his
departure from Icahn Capital LP in February 2017. Refer to Item 7(b) of
Schedule 14A
and Item 401(e)(1) of Regulation S-K.
Cost and Method of Solicitation, page 22
9. Disclosure on page 22 states that the solicitation of proxies will be
made by, among other
people, certain employees of Icahn Enterprises and Deason. Please
describe the class or
classes of employees to be so employed, and the manner and nature of
their employment
for such purpose. Refer to Item 4(b)(2) of Schedule 14A.
Additional Information, page 23
10. When referring security holders to information you have omitted in
reliance on Rule 14a-
5(c), please either provide a general reference that certain omitted
information can be
found in Xerox's proxy statement, or specifically state what information
you have
omitted. For instance, we note that certain information regarding the
compensation that
Mr. Christodoro received from Xerox as a director of the company has
been omitted from
your proxy statement, but you have not referred security holders to this
information in
Xerox's proxy statement.
11. Disclosure on page 23 states that "[t]his information is expected to be
contained in
Xerox's public filings." Please revise this statement to remove the
implication that you
may omit information from your proxy statement as long as you refer
security holders to
such omitted information in any of Xerox's public filings. Please note
that Rule 14a-5(c)
only allows information contained in any other proxy soliciting material
which has been
furnished to each person solicited in connection with the same meeting
or subject matter
to be omitted from your proxy statement.
Robert Leclerc, Esq.
King & Spalding LLP
April 26, 2017
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Form of Proxy
12. Please clearly mark your form of proxy as preliminary. See Rule
14a-6(e)(1).
We remind you that the filing persons are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of
their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of
action by the staff.
Please direct any questions to Bryan Hough, Attorney-Advisor, at (202)
551-8625 or me
at (202) 551-3263.
Sincerely,
/s/ Christina Chalk
Christina Chalk
Senior Special
Counsel
Office of Mergers
and Acquisitions