ModusLink Announces $30 Million Investment Agreement With Steel Partners Holdings L.P.

ModusLink Global Solutions ^(TM), Inc. (NASDAQ: MLNK) today announced that it has entered into an investment agreement with Steel Partners Holdings L.P. (NYSE: SPLP, “Steel Holdings”), which together with certain affiliates, including Handy & Harman Ltd. (NASDAQ: HNH, “Handy & Harman”) (together, the “Steel Group”), beneficially owns 14.9 percent of ModusLink’s outstanding shares.

Under the terms of the agreement, Steel Holdings would purchase 7.5 million newly issued shares of common stock at a price of $4.00 per share, representing a cash investment in the Company, before fees and expenses, of $30 million. The $4.00 purchase price per share represents a 45 percent premium to the closing market price for ModusLink common stock on Friday, February 8, 2013.

In addition, at the closing of the transaction the Company would issue Steel Holdings warrants to acquire 2.0 million shares at an exercise price of $5.00 per share. In addition, the Steel Group may purchase up to approximately 1.4 million shares of ModusLink’s outstanding common stock, subject to proportionate adjustment. If all stock is purchased and all warrants are exercised as permitted under the agreement, the Steel Group would own approximately 32.6 percent of ModusLink’s outstanding shares. The investment is subject to certain enumerated closing conditions, including shareholder approval of the investment pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(b) and the election of two Steel Group designees to the ModusLink board of directors at the Company’s 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”).

In connection with the investment agreement, ModusLink also announced that it has reached a settlement agreement with Handy & Harman in relation to the Annual Meeting. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, ModusLink has agreed to nominate and solicit proxies solely for the Steel Group representatives Warren G. Lichtenstein and Glen M. Kassan for election at the Annual Meeting as Class I directors. Mr. Lichtenstein is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Handy & Harman and Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the general partner of Steel Holdings. Mr. Kassan is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Handy & Harman and Managing Director at Steel Partners LLC. Handy & Harman has agreed to withdraw its preliminary proxy statement and to end its proxy solicitation, and has entered into certain other standstill arrangements with the Company.

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