Sec Form 13D Filing - HITACHI LTD filing for WESTERN DIGITAL CORP (WDC) - 2014-11-14

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE 13D

(RULE 13d-101)

UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

(Amendment No. 2)

Western Digital Corporation

Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share

958102105

Taro Kaiho

Hitachi, Ltd.

6-6, Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku,

Tokyo, 100-8280, Japan

Telephone: 81-3-3258-1111

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

November 13, 2014

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  ¨

This Amendment No. 2 to Schedule 13D (this “Amended Statement”) amends and supplements the statement on Schedule 13D (filed on or about March 15, 2012, as amended by Amendment No. 1 filed on November 7, 2013, the “Original Statement”) relating to the shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Western Digital Corporation, a Delaware corporation (such common stock, the “Shares”; such corporation, the “Issuer”) whose principal executive offices are located at 3355 Michelson Drive, Suite 100, Irvine, California 92612, previously filed by Hitachi, Ltd., a joint stock corporation incorporated under the laws of Japan (the “Reporting Person”).

This Amended Statement is being filed by the Reporting Person. The principal business of the Reporting Person is manufacturing and offering electrical and electronic products and services ranging from information & telecommunication systems and electricity generation systems to consumer products.

The address of the principal office and principal business of the Reporting Person is 6-6, Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-8280, Japan.

Schedule 1, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, sets forth the following information with respect to each director and executive officer of the Reporting Person: the person’s (a) name, (b) business address and (c) present principal occupation or employment and the name, principal business and address of any corporation or other organization in which such employment is conducted.

Neither the Reporting Person nor, to the knowledge of the Reporting Person, any of its directors or executive officers listed in Schedule 1 has, during the last five years, been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors).

Neither the Reporting Person nor, to the knowledge of the Reporting Person, any of its directors or executive officers listed in Schedule 1 has, during the last five years, been 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.

Each of the directors and executive officers of the Reporting Person listed in Schedule 1 are citizens of Japan, except for (i) Cynthia Carroll, who is a citizen of the United States, (ii) George Buckley, who is a citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and (iii) Philip Yeo, who is a citizen of the Republic of Singapore.

Item 4 of the Original Statement is hereby amended and supplemented by the addition of the following:

On November 6, 2014, the Reporting Person entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with the Issuer and Goldman, Sachs & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and RBC Capital Markets, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named in Schedule I thereto (the “Underwriters”), under which it agreed to sell to the Underwriters an aggregate of 5,434,783 Shares at a price of $96.00 per Share. In addition, the Reporting Person granted the Underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 815,217 Shares at a price of $96.00 per Share. The sale of an aggregate of 6,250,000 Shares (including 815,217 Shares as a result of the Underwriters’ full exercise of the 30-day option) was completed on November 13, 2014. The Shares purchased by the Underwriters were offered and sold to the public pursuant to the Issuer’s registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-199884) filed on November 5, 2014.

The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Underwriting Agreement, a copy of which is filed herewith as an exhibit and is incorporated into this Item 4 by reference.

Following the sale, the Reporting Person’s right to designate nominees to the Issuer’s board terminated pursuant to the Investor Rights Agreement referenced in Item 7 below and the Reporting Person has no representation on the Issuer’s board.

Item 6 of the Original Statement is amended and supplemented as follows:

Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Underwriters agreed to purchase from the Reporting Person, and the Reporting Person agreed to sell to the Underwriters, an aggregate of 5,434,783 Shares at a price of $96.00 per Share. In addition, the Reporting Person granted the Underwriters a 30-day option to purchase from the Reporting Person up to an additional 815,217 Shares at a price of $96.00 per Share, which the Underwriters fully exercised on November 7, 2014.

In the Underwriting Agreement, the Reporting Person agreed, subject to certain exceptions, not to offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any of the Issuer’s securities that are substantially similar to the Shares, including but not limited to any options or warrants to purchase Shares or any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, Shares or any such substantially similar securities, or to publicly disclose the intention to make any offer, sale, pledge or disposition or hedge any Shares or any such other securities of the Issuer, until 90 days after November 6, 2014, except with the pri or written consent of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated.

The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Underwriting Agreement, a copy of which is filed herewith as an exhibit and is incorporated into this Item 5 by reference.

Except as described in this Amended Statement, neither the Reporting Person nor, to the knowledge of the Reporting Person, any of its executive officers or directors listed on Schedule 1 to the Original Statement, has any contract, arrangement, understanding or relationship (legal or otherwise) with any person with respect to the Shares held by the Reporting Person, including, but not limited to, transfer or voting of any of such securities, finder’s fees, joint ventures, loan or option arrangements, puts or calls, guarantees of profits, division of profits or loss, or the giving or withholding of proxies.

SIGNATURE

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: November 14, 2014

Schedule 1

The following table sets forth (i) the name and present principal occupation or employment, for each of the Reporting Person’s directors and executive officers and (ii) the name, principal business and address of any corporation or other organization in which such employment is conducted. Unless otherwise indicated, the business address of each such director and executive officer is 6-6, Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-8280, Japan. Each of the directors and executive officers of the Reporting Person listed below is a citizen of Japan, except for (i) Cynthia Carroll, who is a citizen of the United States, (ii) George Buckley, who is a citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and (iii) Philip Yeo, who is a citizen of the Republic of Singapore.

Directors

Note: The Director marked with * concurrently serves as an Executive Officer. See “Executive Officers” below.

Executive Officers