UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 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): June 30, 2017 ALON USA ENERGY, INC. (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter) Delaware (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) 001-32567 (Commission File Number) 12700 Park Central Dr., Suite 1600 Dallas, Texas 75251 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code) Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (972) 367-3600 74-2966572 (IRS Employer Identification No.) Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions: o Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) o Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) o Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b)) o Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c)) Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 ( 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ( 240.12b-2 of this chapter). Emerging growth company o If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. o
Item 2.01. Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets. On June 30, 2017, the mergers pursuant to the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of January 2, 2017 (the Merger Agreement ), by and among Alon USA Energy, Inc. (the Company ), Delek US Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Delek Holdco, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Dione Mergeco, Inc., a Delaware corporation and Astro Mergeco, Inc., a Delaware corporation ( Alon Merger Sub ), as amended by the First Amendment, dated as of February 27, 2017, and the Second Amendment, dated as of April 21, 2017, were closed and are effective as of July 1, 2017 (the Effective Time ). Immediately prior to the Effective Time, Delek US Holdings, Inc. s name will be changed to Delek US Energy, Inc. and Delek Holdco, Inc. s name will be changed to Delek US Holdings, Inc. As such, Delek Holdco, Inc. (which is to be renamed Delek US Holdings, Inc.) is referred to herein as New Delek, and Delek US Holdings, Inc. (which is to be renamed Delek US Energy, Inc.) is referred to herein as Delek. Effective as of the Effective Time, the Company will be a wholly owned subsidiary, directly and indirectly, of New Delek, as a result of the merger of Alon Merger Sub with and into the Company (the Merger ), with the Company surviving. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, at the Effective Time, each issued and outstanding share of Company common stock, par value $0.01 per share ( Company Common Stock ), other than certain shares held by New Delek and its subsidiaries or held in the treasury of the Company, will be converted into the right to receive 0.504 of a share of New Delek common stock, par value $0.01 per share (such common stock, New Delek Common Stock, and such consideration, the Merger Consideration ), or, in the case of fractional shares of New Delek Common Stock, cash (without interest) in an amount equal to the product of (i) such fractional part of a share of New Delek Common Stock multiplied by (ii) $25.96 per share, which is the volume-weighted average price of Delek common stock for the twenty consecutive days ending as of June 30, 2017. In addition, at the Effective Time, each outstanding share of restricted Company Common Stock ( Company Restricted Stock ) will be assumed by New Delek and converted into a restricted stock award denominated in shares of New Delek Common Stock. The foregoing description of the Merger Agreement and the Merger is only a summary, does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Merger Agreement, which was filed as Exhibit 2.1 to the Company s Current Report on Form 8-K, as amended, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC ) on January 3, 2017 and is incorporated herein by reference. Item 3.01. Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing. In connection with the consummation of the Merger, the Company notified the New York Stock Exchange (the NYSE ) that trading in Company Common Stock should be suspended and the listing of Company Common Stock on the NYSE should be removed. The trading of Company Common Stock on the NYSE will be suspended before the opening of the market on July 3, 2017. The Company also requested that the NYSE file with the SEC an application on Form 25 to delist and deregister the Company Common Stock under Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act ). Furthermore, the Company intends to file with the SEC a Form 15 requesting that the reporting obligations of the Company under Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Exchange Act be suspended as soon as practicable. 1
Item 3.03. Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, at the Effective Time (i) each outstanding share of Company Common Stock, other than shares held by New Delek and its subsidiaries or held in the treasury of the Company, will be converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration and (ii) each outstanding share of Company Restricted Stock will be assumed by New Delek and converted into a restricted stock award denominated in shares of New Delek Common Stock. As of the Effective Time, holders of Company Common Stock immediately prior to the Effective Time, other than New Delek and its subsidiaries, will cease to have any rights as stockholders of the Company (other than the right to receive the Merger Consideration or as otherwise provided by the Merger Agreement or by law). The information set forth in Items 2.01, 3.01 and 5.01 is incorporated herein by reference. Item 5.01. Changes in Control of Registrant. A change of control of the Company occurred upon the filing of the certificate of merger, which is effective as of the Effective Time, with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, at which time Alon Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company, with the Company continuing to exist as a Delaware corporation. As a result of the Merger, the Company will become a wholly owned subsidiary, directly and indirectly, of New Delek. Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangement of Certain Officers. At the Effective Time, and in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement, each of the following members of the board of directors of the Company ceased to be directors: Ilan Cohen, Assaf Ginzburg, Ron W. Haddock, William J. Kacal, Zalman Segal, Avigal Soreq, Franklin R. Wheeler and David Wiessman. At the Effective Time, and in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement, Kevin Kremke was appointed as a member of the board of directors of the Company, joining Ezra Uzi Yemin and Frederec Green who remained as directors of the Company. At the Effective Time, and in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement, all of the officers of the Company were removed from their respective positions and Shai Even was appointed as Senior Vice President. Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year. In connection with the consummation of the Merger, at the Effective Time, the certificate of incorporation of Alon Merger Sub as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time will become the certificate of incorporation of the Company as set forth in Exhibit 3.1, and as so amended and restated will become the certificate of incorporation of the surviving entity in the Merger, effective as of the Effective Time (the Surviving Corporation Certificate of Incorporation ). The foregoing disclosures are qualified in their entirety by reference to the Surviving Corporation Certificate of Incorporation, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 and is incorporated herein by reference. Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits. (d) Exhibits. Exhibit Number Description 3.1 Surviving Corporation Certificate of Incorporation. 2
SIGNATURE Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized. ALON USA ENERGY, INC. Date: June 30, 2017 By: /s/ James Ranspot James Ranspot Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary 3
INDEX TO EXHIBITS Exhibit Number Description 3.1 Surviving Corporation Certificate of Incorporation. 4
RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF ASTRO MERGECO, INC. (originally incorporated on December 29, 2016) Dated June 29, 2017 FIRST: The name of the corporation is Astro Mergeco, Inc. (the Corporation ). SECOND: The address of the Corporation s registered office in the State of Delaware is 874 Walker Road, Suite C, City of Dover, County of Kent, Delaware 19904. The name of the Corporation s registered agent at such address is United Corporate Services, Inc. THIRD: The nature of the business and purpose to be conducted or promoted by the Corporation is any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock that the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 80,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share. FIFTH: The Corporation is to have perpetual existence. provide. SIXTH: Election of directors need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the Corporation shall so SEVENTH: All of the powers of the Corporation, insofar as the same may be lawfully vested by this Restated Certificate of Incorporation in the Board of Directors of the Corporation, are hereby conferred upon the Board of Directors of the Corporation. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing provisions of this Article Seventh, and for the purpose of the orderly management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation, the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall have the power to adopt, amend or repeal from time to time the bylaws of the Corporation, subject to the right of the stockholders of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon to adopt, amend or repeal bylaws of the Corporation. EIGHTH: To the full extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law (the DGCL ) or any other applicable law currently or hereafter in effect, no director of the Corporation will be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for or with respect to any acts or omissions in the performance of his or her duties as a director of the Corporation. Any repeal or modification of this Article Eighth will not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation existing prior to such repeal or modification. 1
NINTH: Section 1. Right to Indemnification. Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a Proceeding ), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or an officer of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation, while a director or officer of the Corporation, as a director, officer, employee or agent of another company or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan (an Indemnitee ), whether the basis of such Proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent permitted or required by the DGCL, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than such law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such Indemnitee in connection therewith; provided, however, that, except as provided in Section 3 of this Article Ninth with respect to Proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification, the Corporation shall indemnify any such Indemnitee in connection with a Proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such Indemnitee only if such Proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation. Section 2. Right to Advancement of Expenses. The right to indemnification conferred in Section 1 of this Article Ninth shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys fees and expenses) incurred in defending any such Proceeding in advance of its final disposition (an Advancement of Expenses ); provided, however, that, if the DGCL so requires, an Advancement of Expenses incurred by an Indemnitee in his or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such Indemnitee, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (an Undertaking ), by or on behalf of such Indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (a Final Adjudication ) that such Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this Section 2 or otherwise. The rights to indemnification and to the Advancement of Expenses conferred in Sections 1 and 2 of this Article Ninth shall be contract rights and such rights shall continue as to an Indemnitee who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the Indemnitee s heirs, executors and administrators. Section 3. Right of Indemnitee to Bring Suit. If a claim under Section 1 or 2 of this Article Ninth is not paid in full by the Corporation within 60 calendar days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an Advancement of Expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be 20 calendar days, the Indemnitee may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim. If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover an Advancement of 2
Expenses pursuant to the terms of an Undertaking, the Indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit. In (i) any suit brought by the Indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit brought by the Indemnitee to enforce a right to an Advancement of Expenses) it shall be a defense that, and (ii) any suit brought by the Corporation to recover an Advancement of Expenses pursuant to the terms of an Undertaking, the Corporation shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon a Final Adjudication that, the Indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the DGCL. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its directors, independent legal counsel or stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the Indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the Indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the DGCL, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its directors, independent legal counsel or stockholders) that the Indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall create a presumption that the Indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the Indemnitee, be a defense to such suit. In any suit brought by the Indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification or to an Advancement of Expenses hereunder, or brought by the Corporation to recover an Advancement of Expenses pursuant to the terms of an Undertaking, the burden of proving that the Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified, or to such Advancement of Expenses, under this Article Ninth or otherwise shall be on the Corporation. Section 4. Non-Exclusivity of Rights. The rights to indemnification and to the Advancement of Expenses conferred in this Article Ninth shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, the Corporation s Certificate of Incorporation, bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise. Section 5. Insurance. The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the DGCL. Section 6. Indemnification of Employees and Agents of the Corporation. The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors, grant rights to indemnification and to the Advancement of Expenses to any employee or agent of the Corporation or to any person who serves at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another company or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan, to the fullest extent of the provisions of this Article Ninth with respect to the indemnification and Advancement of Expenses of directors and officers of the Corporation as otherwise permitted or required by the DGCL. TENTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Restated Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation. 3
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Restated Certificate of Incorporation, which has been duly adopted in accordance with Sections 228, 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, to be executed by its duly authorized officers as of the date set forth above. ASTRO MERGECO, INC. By: /s/ Ezra Uzi Yemin Name: Ezra Uzi Yemin Title: President & CEO By: /s/ Danny Norris Name: Danny Norris Title: VP & Chief Accounting Officer 4