This Amendment No. 5 (this “Amendment”) amends and supplements
the Schedule 13D filed on February 6, 2017, as amended by
Amendment No. 1 filed on May 17, 2017, Amendment
No. 2 filed on November 19, 2018, Amendment No. 3
filed on February 19, 2019 and Amendment No. 4 filed on
July 15, 2019, with respect to the Issuer by the Reporting
Persons (the “Original Filing”). Information reported in the
Original Filing remains in effect except to the extent that it is
amended, restated or superseded by information contained in this
Amendment. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Amendment
have the respective meanings set forth in the Original Filing.
Percentages of the Ordinary Shares outstanding reported in this
Amendment are calculated based upon the number of Ordinary Shares
outstanding as of March 25, 2022, which reflects the number
reported in the Annual Report on Form 20-F filed by the Issuer with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2022 (“Form
20-F”), as adjusted to
reflect the Issuer’s repurchase of 27,743,301 Ordinary Shares in
the form of American Depositary Shares (the “Repurchased Shares”),
as announced by the Issuer in its Form 20-F and Current Report on Form
6-K filed on May 6,
2022 (calculated assuming that the Repurchased Shares were
cancelled).
Item 1. |
Security and Issuer
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Item 1 is hereby amended by replacing it in its entirety with the
following:
This Schedule 13D relates to the ordinary shares (the “Ordinary
Shares”) of Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited, a
Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Issuer”). The address of the
Issuer’s principal executive offices is 38th Floor, The Centrium,
60 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong.
Item 2. |
Identity and Background
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Items 2(a) and 2(c) are hereby amended by replacing them in their
entirety with the following:
(a) |
This Schedule 13D is being filed on behalf of each of
the following persons (collectively, the “Reporting Persons”):
Melco International Development Limited, a Hong Kong-listed company
(“Melco International”), its wholly-owned subsidiary Melco Leisure
and Entertainment Group Limited, a company incorporated under the
laws of the British Virgin Islands (“Melco Leisure”), and Mr. Ho,
Lawrence Yau Lung, a citizen of Canada (“Mr. Ho”).
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As of the date of this Amendment, Mr. Ho personally holds
91,445,132 ordinary shares of Melco International, representing
approximately 6.0% of Melco International’s ordinary shares
outstanding. In addition, 122,243,024 ordinary shares of Melco
International are held by Lasting Legend Ltd., 301,368,606 ordinary
shares of Melco International are held by Better Joy Overseas Ltd.,
53,491,345 ordinary shares of Melco International are held by
Mighty Dragon Developments Limited, and 1,566,000 ordinary shares
of Melco International are held by Maple Peak Investments Inc.,
representing approximately 8.1%, 19.9%, 3.5% and 0.1%,
respectively, of Melco International’s shares, all of which are
entities owned by Mr. Ho, and/or persons and/or trusts affiliated
with Mr. Ho.
Mr. Ho also has an interest in L3G Holdings Inc., a company
controlled by a discretionary family trust, the beneficiaries of
which include Mr. Ho and his immediate family members, that
holds 312,666,187 ordinary shares of Melco International,
representing approximately 20.6% of Melco International’s
shares.