Finisar Corporation Announces Common Stock Offering
The Company will grant the underwriters the right to purchase up to an additional 931,093 shares of Common Stock, and certain selling stockholders will grant the underwriters the right to purchase up to an additional 148,907 shares, solely to cover over-allotments, if any. The Company will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and Jefferies & Company, Inc. are serving as joint book-running managers for the offering. Piper Jaffray & Co. and Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc. are acting as co-managers.
The proposed offering will be made pursuant to an automatic shelf registration statement that was filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and became effective immediately upon filing. A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the offering has also been filed with the SEC, and the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus are available on its website, www.sec.gov. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and base prospectus may also be obtained from:
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
180 Varick Street
New York, New York 10014
Attention: Prospectus Department
E-mail: prospectus@morganstanley.com
Phone: (866) 718-1649 (toll free)
Jefferies & Company, Inc.
520 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10022
Attention: Stephen M. Ficara
E-mail: sficara@jefferies.com
Phone: (212) 284-3418
