SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 8, 2011 — Juniper Networks (NASDAQ:JNPR, news, filings) today announced that it has been notified of an unsolicited “mini-tender” offer by TRC Capital Corporation to purchase up to three million shares, or less than 0.563 percent, of outstanding Juniper Networks common stock at a price of $28.25 per share in cash. TRC’s offer price is approximately 4.33 percent less than the $29.53 closing price of Juniper Networks common stock on June 22, 2011, the day before the offer commenced. In addition, TRC’s offer is subject to numerous conditions, including the availability of financing on terms satisfactory to TRC.
Juniper Networks does not endorse TRC’s offer and recommends that Juniper Networks stockholders do not tender their shares in response to the offer because it is a mini-tender offer at a price below the current market price for Juniper shares and is subject to numerous conditions. According to TRC’s current offer documents, Juniper stockholders who have already tendered their shares may withdraw their shares at any time prior to 12:01 a.m., New York City time, on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, the expiration date set forth in the offer documents (unless extended), by following the procedures described in the offer documents.
TRC has made many similar mini-tender offers for shares of other companies. Mini-tender offers are designed to seek to acquire less than five percent of a company’s outstanding shares, thereby avoiding many disclosure and procedural requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that apply to offers for more than five percent of a company’s outstanding shares. As a result, mini-tender offers do not provide investors with the same level of protections as provided by larger tender offers under United States securities laws.
The SEC has cautioned investors about these offers, noting that “some bidders make mini-tender offers at below-market prices, hoping that they will catch investors off guard if the investors do not compare the offer price to the current market price.” The SEC’s Investor Tips regarding mini-tender offers may be found on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/minitend.htm 
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Juniper Networks encourages broker and dealers, as well as other market participants, to review the SEC’s letter regarding broker-dealer mini-tender offer dissemination and disclosures at www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/minitenders/sia072401.htm , the NASD Notice to Members 99-53 issued July 1999, regarding guidance to members forwarding mini-tender offers to their customers, which can be found at www.finra.org/web/groups/industry/@ip/@reg/@notice/documents/notices/p004221.pdf and Information Memo Number 01-27 issued by the NYSE on Sept. 28, 2001, regarding the dissemination of mini-tender offer materials, which can be found on the NYSE’s Website at www.nyse.com .
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