UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

Form 8‑K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 19, 2017

 

Commission File Number 000‑27261

 

CH2M HILL Companies, Ltd.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

(303) 771‑0900

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

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Item 8.01 Other Events.

CH2M HILL Companies, Ltd. and subsidiaries (“We”, “Our”, “CH2M” or the “Company”) is filing this Exhibit 99.1 of our Current Report on Form 8-K to retrospectively revise and reclass certain previously reported financial information included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2016, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 7, 2017 (“Original Filing”), to reflect the subsequent changes in reportable operating segments resulting from the implementation of a new organizational structure and the presentation of our fixed-price Power Engineering-Procurement-Construction (“EPC”) business as discontinued operations.

In the first quarter of 2017, we implemented a new organizational structure to more fully align global operations with our client-centric strategy, resulting in three sectors: National Governments, Private, and State & Local Governments.  Each of these sectors has been identified in 2017 as a reportable operating segment.  Additionally, the termination on January 24, 2017 of the Australian fixed-price Power EPC contract in the first quarter of 2017 resulted in the substantial completion and discontinuation of our former Power EPC business, which was previously a stand-alone reportable operating segment.  As a result, in 2017 the financial position and results of operations from this former segment are reflected within our consolidated financial statements as amounts attributable to discontinued operations and are excluded from the amounts attributable to continuing operations.

As previously disclosed, on August 1, 2017, we entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), among CH2M, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (“Jacobs”) and Basketball Merger Sub Inc., pursuant to which Jacobs has agreed to acquire CH2M, subject to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement.  As provided in the Merger Agreement, Jacobs is filing a registration statement on Form S-4, which will include a proxy statement of CH2M and a prospectus of Jacobs.  The Form S-4 will include and incorporate by reference certain financial information of CH2M and Jacobs, as applicable, based on the combination of CH2M and Jacobs’ historical financial statements.

The rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission require that when a registrant prepares a new registration or proxy statement that includes or incorporates by reference financial statements on or after the date a registrant reports an accounting change such as the changes noted above, the registrant must reissue the prior period financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the registration or proxy statement to retrospectively revise and reclass such pre-event financial statements to reflect these types of changes.  Accordingly, we are filing this Exhibit 99.1 of our Current Report on Form 8-K to revise our consolidated balance sheets as of December 30, 2016 and December 25, 2015, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three year period ended December 30, 2016 to reflect the subsequent changes in reportable operating segments and the presentation of discontinued operations as described above.  Additionally, we are revising certain related Items within the Original Filing to reflect the subsequent changes in reportable operating segments and the presentation of discontinued operations.

The information included in this Exhibit 99.1 of our Current Report on Form 8-K is presented in connection with the reporting changes described above and does not otherwise amend or restate our audited consolidated financial statements, which were included in our Original Filing.  This Current Report does not reflect events occurring after we filed our Original Filing and does not modify or update the disclosures therein in any way, other than to reflect the subsequent changes in reportable operating segments and the presentation of our fixed-price Power EPC business as discontinued operations as described above.  Therefore, this Exhibit 99.1 of our Current Report on Form 8-K should be read in conjunction with our other filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, and subsequent to the date of the Original Filing.

 

We have revised the following portions of the Original Filing to reflect the revised reportable operating segments and the presentation of discontinued operations:

 

PART I

 

PART II

 

PART IV

 

The revised portions of the Original Filing described above are attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.  All other information in the Original Filing remains unchanged.  References to the exhibits attached hereto to the Original Filing or parts thereof refer to the Original Filing, except to the extent portions of such Original Filing have been recast in Exhibit 99.1

to this Current Report on Form 8-K, in which case they refer to the applicable revised portion in Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits. The following exhibits are being filed herewith:

 

 

 

 

Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Exhibit Index