United States

Securities and Exchange Commission

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

SCHEDULE 13D/A

(Rule 13d-101)

Information to be Included in Statements Filed Pursuant to § 240.13d-1(a) and

Amendments Thereto Filed Pursuant to § 240.13d-2(a)

Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

(Amendment No. 1)*

 

 

Ormat Technologies, Inc.

(Name of Issuer)

Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share

(Title of Class of Securities)

686688102

(CUSIP Number)

Nobuomi Iokamori

Hamamatsucho Building, 1-1-1 Shibaura, Minato-ku

Tokyo 105-0023, Japan

Telephone: +81-3-5730-0183

(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)

April 14, 2020

(Date of Event which Requires Filing of this Statement)

 

 

If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of §§ 240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box. ☐

 

 

Note: Schedules filed in paper format shall include a signed original and five copies of the schedule, including all exhibits. See § 240.13d-7 for other parties to whom copies are to be sent.

 

 

 

*

The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person’s initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter disclosures provided in a prior cover page.

The information required on the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the Notes).

 

 

 


CUSIP No. 686688102    13D    Page 1 of 4 Pages

 

    1  

Names of Reporting Persons

 

ORIX Corporation

    2  

Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group

(a)  ☐        (b)  ☐

 

    3  

SEC Use Only

 

    4  

Source of Funds (See Instructions)

 

OO

    5  

Check if disclosure of legal proceedings is required pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)

 

    6  

Citizenship or Place of Organization

 

Japan

Number of

Shares

Beneficially

Owned by

Each

Reporting

Person

With

 

      7             

Sole Voting Power

 

10,988,577

      8     

Shared Voting Power

 

0

      9     

Sole Dispositive Power

 

10,988,577

    10     

Shared Dispositive Power

 

0

  11  

Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person

 

10,988,577

  12  

Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares

 

  13  

Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11)

 

21.5%

  14  

Type of Reporting Person

 

CO


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Item 1.

Security and Issuer.

This Amendment No. 1 to the statement on Schedule 13D (the “Amendment”) relates to the Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”) of Ormat Technologies, Inc. (the “Issuer”), whose principal executive offices are located at 6225 Neil Road, Reno, Nevada, 89511-1136.

This Amendment amends and supplements the Schedule 13D originally filed by the Reporting Person (as defined below) on July 26, 2017 (the “Original Schedule 13D”). Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms shall have the meaning given to them in the Original Schedule 13D.

 

Item 2.

Identity and Background.

The Amendment is being filed by ORIX Corporation (the “Reporting Person”), a Japanese corporation. The business address of the Reporting Person is World Trade Center Building, 2-4-1 Hamamatsu-cho, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-6135, Japan. The Reporting Person is principally engaged in the business of providing diversified global financial services.

The name, business address, present principal occupation or employment and citizenship of each director and executive officer of the Reporting Person (collectively, the “Related Persons”) are set forth on Annex A hereto.

During the last five years, neither the Reporting Person nor the Related Persons (i) has been convicted in any criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors) or (ii) was a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state securities laws or finding any violation with respect to such laws.

 

Item 4.

Purpose of Transaction.

This Item 4 is amended and supplemented as follows:

Governance Amendment Agreement

On April 14, 2020, the Issuer and the Reporting Person entered into a Governance Amendment Agreement (the “Amendment Agreement”) pursuant to which it was agreed to permit an increase to the size of the Board to allow for Isaac Angel to serve as a Board director (if approved by shareholders at the Issuer’s annual general meeting of shareholders to be held in June 2020). Pursuant to the Amendment Agreement, the Reporting Person has agreed to procure the necessary consent from the directors appointed by the Reporting Person for the Board expansion, as required by Section 2.1(c) of the Governance Agreement. The consent to increase the number of Board directors only applies to the initial election of Mr. Angel and does not constitute approval for any nomination, re-nomination, appointment or re-appointment of any director or any expansion of the Board thereafter. The Amendment Agreement allows for the temporary expansion to ten (10) directors provided that the total number of directors decreases to nine (9) no later than the Issuer’s annual general meeting in 2021 or 15 months after the Issuer’s annual general meeting in 2020, whichever is earlier.

General

The Reporting Person acquired the securities described in this Amendment for investment purposes and it will review their investments in the Issuer on a continuing basis. Any actions the Reporting Person might undertake will be dependent upon the Reporting Person’s review of numerous factors, including, but not limited to: an ongoing evaluation of the Issuer’s business, financial condition, operations and prospects; price levels of the Issuer’s securities; general market, industry and economic conditions; the relative attractiveness of alternative business and investment opportunities; and other current and future developments.

Subject to the limitations in the Governance Agreement, the Reporting Person may, at any time and from time to time, acquire additional securities of the Issuer, or retain or sell all or a portion of the securities then held, in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. Subject to the limitations in the Governance Agreement, in connection with such considerations or activity, the Reporting Person may use third-party advisers, consultants or agents (each an “Adviser”) to assist it and may engage, directly or indirectly, in discussions or negotiations, or pursue agreements with other parties regarding the securities then held and such other matters as it considers relevant to making its determinations.


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In addition, and subject to the limitations in the Governance Agreement, the Reporting Person, its designees to the Issuer’s Board or its Advisers may engage in discussions with management, the Board, other shareholders of the Issuer and other relevant parties or encourage such persons to consider or explore extraordinary corporate transactions, such as: a merger; sales or acquisitions of securities, assets or businesses; changes to the capitalization or dividend policy of the Issuer; or other material changes to the Issuer’s business or corporate structure, including changes in management or the composition of the Board.

Other than as described above, the Reporting Person does not currently have any plans or proposals that relate to, or would result in, any of the matters listed in Items 4(a)–(j) of Schedule 13D, although, depending on the factors discussed herein, the Reporting Person may change its purpose or formulate different plans or proposals with respect thereto at any time.

 

Item 5.

Interest in Securities of the Issuer.

(a) – (b)

The Reporting Person has sole voting and dispositive power over 10,988,577 shares of Common Stock, representing 21.5% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock based on 51,031,652 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of February 26, 2020, as reported in the Issuer’s Form 10-K filed on March 2, 2020. The Reporting Person is a publicly traded company with common stock listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and American depositary shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The directors of the Reporting Person are listed on Annex A hereto.

 

(a)

Except as described in Item 4, during the past 60 days neither the Reporting Person nor any of the Related Persons has effected any transactions in the Common Stock.

 

(b)

None.

 

(c)

Not applicable.

 

Item 6.

Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer.

Except as set forth in the Original Schedule 13D and herein, neither the Reporting Person nor the Related Persons has any contracts, arrangements, understandings or relationships (legal or otherwise) with any person with respect to any securities of the Issuer, including but not limited to any contracts, arrangements, understandings or relationships concerning the transfer or voting of such securities, finder’s fees, joint ventures, loan or option arrangements puts or calls guarantees of profits division of profits or losses or the giving or withholding of proxies arrangements, puts or calls, guarantees of profits, division of profits or losses, or the giving or withholding of proxies.

 

Item 7.

Materials to be Filed as Exhibits

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Description

1    Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 4, 2017, by and among FIMI ENRG, Limited Partnership, FIMI ENRG, L.P., Bronicki Investments Ltd., Isaac Angel, Doron Blachar and ORIX Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1l to the Reporting Person’s Schedule 13D related to the Issuer’s securities filed on May 5, 2017).*
2    Governance Agreement, dated as of May 4, 2017, by and between ORIX Corporation and Ormat Technologies, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Issuer’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 4, 2017).**
3    Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of May 4, 2017, by and between ORIX Corporation and Ormat Technologies, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Issuer’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 4, 2017).**
4    Governance Amendment Agreement, dated as of April 14, 2020 by and between ORIX Corporation and Ormat Technologies, Inc. (incorporated by reference into this Amendment No. 1 to the Reporting Person’s Schedule 13D related to the Issuer’s securities originally filed on May 5, 2017).


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Exhibit
Number

  

Description

*     Filed with the initial statement on Schedule 13D on May 5, 2017.
**     Filed with the Issuer’s Form 8-K on May 4, 2017.


SIGNATURES

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

 

Date: April 16, 2020    
    ORIX Corporation
    By:  

/s/ Hidetake Takahashi

    Name:   Hidetake Takahashi
    Title:   Executive Officer


SCHEDULE A

The name, present principal occupation or employment and citizenship of each of the executive officers and directors of the Reporting Person are set forth below. The business address of each individual is c/o ORIX Corporation, World Trade Center Building, 2-4-1 Hamamatsu-cho, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-6135, Japan.

Directors

 

Name

  

Present Principal Occupation or Employment

   Citizenship
Makoto Inoue    Director, Representative Executive Officer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Responsible for Group Strategy Business Unit of ORIX Corporation    Japan
Yuichi Nishigori    Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, Responsible for Energy and Eco Services Business Headquarters of ORIX Corporation, Director, Ubiteq, INC.    Japan
Shuji Irie    Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, Head of Investment and Operation Headquarters of ORIX Corporation    Japan
Shoji Taniguchi    Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, Responsible for Treasury and Accounting Headquarters, Enterprise Risk Management Headquarters, Corporate Planning Department, Corporate Communications Department, Assistant to CEO of ORIX Corporation    Japan
Satoru Matsuzaki    Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, Head of Corporate Business Headquarters of ORIX Corporation, Chairman, ORIX Auto Corporation, Chairman, ORIX Rentec Corporation    Japan
Stan Koyanagi    Director, Managing Executive Officer, Global General Counsel of ORIX Corporation    USA
Eiko Tsujiyama    Outside Director and Independent Director of ORIX Corporation    Japan
   Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Commerce at Waseda University   
   Corporate Auditor, Lawson, Inc. (Outside)   
   Audit & Supervisory Board Member, NTT DOCOMO, INC. (Outside)   
Nobuaki Usui    Outside Director and Independent Director of ORIX Corporation    Japan
   Outside Auditor, Miroku Jyoho Service Co., Ltd.   
Ryuji Yasuda    Outside Director and Independent Director of ORIX Corporation    Japan
   Outside Director, Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.   
   Outside Director, Benesse Holdings, Inc.   
   Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University Department of International Corporate Strategy   
   Outside Director, Kansai Mirai Financial Group, Inc.   
   President, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University   
Heizo Takenaka    Outside Director and Independent Director of ORIX Corporation    Japan
   Professor, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies at Toyo University   
   Chairman and Director, PASONA Group Inc.,   
   Director, Academyhills   
   Director, Center for Global Innovation Studies at Toyo University   


Name

  

Present Principal Occupation or Employment

   Citizenship
   Outside Director, SBI Holdings, Inc.   
Michael Cusumano    Outside Director and Independent Director of ORIX Corporation    USA
   Professor, Sloane School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology   
   Senior Specially Appointed Professor, Tokyo University of Science   
   Outside Director, Ferratum Plc   
Sakie Akiyama    Outside Director and Independent Director of ORIX Corporation    Japan
   Founder, Saki Corporation   
   Outside Director, Sony Corporation   
   Outside Director, JAPAN POST HOLDINGS Co., Ltd.   

Executive Officers

 

Name

  

Present Principal Occupation or
Employment

  

Citizenship

Kiyoshi Fushitani    Senior Managing Executive Officer    Japan
Yoshiteru Suzuki    Senior Managing Executive Officer    Japan
Yasuaki Mikami    Managing Executive Officer    Japan
Harukazu Yamaguchi    Executive Officer    Japan
Hitomaro Yano    Executive Officer    Japan
Toyonori Takahashi    Executive Officer    Japan
Yasuhiro Tsuboi    Executive Officer    Japan
Michio Minato    Executive Officer    Japan
Tetsuya Kotera    Executive Officer    Japan
Eiji Arita    Executive Officer    Japan
Seiichi Miyake    Executive Officer    Japan
Hidetake Takahashi    Executive Officer    Japan
Tomoko Kageura    Executive Officer    Japan
Nobuki Watanabe    Executive Officer    Japan
Toshinari Fukaya    Group Managing Executive    Japan
Hiroko Yamashina    Group Executive    Japan
Yuji Kamiyauchi    Group Executive    Japan
Takaaki Nitanai    Group Executive    Japan
Nobuhisa Hosokawa    Group Executive    Japan
EX-99.4

Exhibit 4

Execution Version

 

GOVERNANCE AMENDMENT AGREEMENT

THIS GOVERNANCE AMENDMENT AGREEMENT, dated as of April 14, 2020, is entered into by and between Ormat Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and ORIX Corporation, a Japanese corporation (the “Investor”). This Amendment Agreement hereby amends and supplements the Governance Agreement dated May 4, 2017 entered into by and between the Company and the Investor (the “Governance Agreement”).

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms shall have the meaning given to them in the Governance Agreement.

RECITALS:

WHEREAS, in connection with succession planning for the Company, it has been proposed that Isaac Angel, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, will be nominated for election to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”);

WHEREAS, the maximum number of directors is currently nine (9) and the Company and the Investor consider it desirable and in the best interests of the Company that Mr. Angel be able to join the Board without displacing any existing member who may be re-nominated for election to the Board;

WHEREAS, in connection therewith, pursuant to Section 2.1(c) of the Governance Agreement, in order to expand the size of the Board to more than nine (9), consent by a majority of the Investor Directors is required; and

WHEREAS, in order to ensure an orderly transition of the Board and appropriate succession planning to be implemented, the Company and the Investor have agreed to enter into this Governance Amendment Agreement to allow a temporary expansion of the number of Directors to a maximum of ten (10); provided that, the total number of Directors (inclusive of the Investor Directors) decreases to nine (9) no later than the date of the Company’s Annual General Meeting in 2021 or 15 months from the date hereof, whichever is earlier.

NOW, THEREFORE in consideration of the foregoing premises and the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, intending to be legally bound, the parties hereto agree as follows:

Section 2.1 of the Governance Agreement is hereby amended and supplemented by the inclusion of the following provisions:

(i)    The Investor agrees to take such action as is necessary to procure that at least a majority of the Investor Directors consent to increase the number of Directors on the Board of the Company to a maximum of ten (10) Directors, effective on the date of the Company’s annual general meeting in 2020; subject to any such expansion solely being made solely for the purpose of Isaac Angel and no other party serving on the Board as an additional Director to those currently serving. For the avoidance of doubt, any consent provided shall only apply to the initial election of Mr. Angel and shall not be interpreted or understood to restrict or otherwise limit the actions of the Investor or the Investor Directors in any respect, and shall

 

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Execution Version

 

not be considered to constitute approval for any nomination or re-nomination or appointment or re-appointment of any Director or any expansion of the Board of Directors thereafter.

(j)    The Company agrees to take all such steps as are necessary to ensure that only nine (9) or fewer members (inclusive of the Investor Directors) are nominated for approval at its annual general meeting to occur in 2021.

(k)    The Company agrees that in the event that it has not convened and completed its annual general meeting in 2021 on or prior to a date that is fifteen months from the date of the Company’s annual general meeting in 2020 and the number of Directors exceeds nine (9) (inclusive of the Investor Directors), the Chair of the Board of Directors shall at the earliest time practicable convene a special meeting of the Board of Directors to take any and all such action as is necessary to reduce the size of the Board of Directors to no more than nine (9) Directors (including the Investor Directors) with then-immediate effect.

(l)     For the avoidance of doubt, without derogating from the temporary expansion of the Board of Directors to more than nine (9) members pursuant hereto, the Parties agree that, subject to other terms and conditions of the Governance Agreement, Section 2.1(c) will continue to apply in any and all circumstances where a proposed appointment to the Board of Directors would result in the number of Directors being greater than nine (9) (inclusive of the Investor Directors).

 

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Execution Version

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this GOVERNANCE AMENDMENT AGREEMENT to be duly executed as of the date and year first above written.

 

ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
By:   /s/ Isaac Angel
By:  

/s/ Doron Blachar

Name/Title:

  Isaac Angel, CEO
Name/Title:   Doron Blachar, President & CFO
ORIX CORPORATION
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

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Execution Version

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this GOVERNANCE AMENDMENT AGREEMENT to be duly executed as of the date and year first above written.

 

ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
      
By:  

     

Name:

      
Title:       
ORIX CORPORATION
By:  

/s/ Hidetake Takahashi

Name:   Hidetake Takahashi
Title:   Executive Officer

 

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