Graphic Packaging International launches a $500 million senior notes offering, intending to use the proceeds for corporate purposes, while ensuring compliance with securities laws and regulations.
Graphic Packaging International, LLC ("Graphic Packaging"), a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Graphic Packaging International Partners, LLC ("Parent") and the primary operating subsidiary of Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE: GPK), announced today that it launched an offering to sell $500 million aggregate principal amount of its senior notes due 2032 (the "Senior Notes") in a private offering in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), subject to market and other conditions.
The Senior Notes will be senior unsecured obligations of Graphic Packaging. The Senior Notes will be guaranteed by Parent and Field Container Queretaro (USA), L.L.C., as well as by any of Graphic Packaging's additional existing and future material domestic subsidiaries that guarantee obligations under its Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, as amended, by and among Graphic Packaging and certain of its subsidiaries as Borrowers, the lenders and agents named therein, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, dated as of April 1, 2021 (the "Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement"), and its existing senior notes due 2024, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, and 2030.
Graphic Packaging expects to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay a portion of the outstanding borrowings under its domestic senior secured revolving credit facility under its senior secured credit facility, to pay fees and expenses incurred in connection with the offering of the Senior Notes and, to the extent there are any remaining proceeds therefrom, for general corporate purposes.
The Senior Notes and the related guarantees will be offered and sold only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers in reliance on the exemption from registration set forth in Rule 144A under the Securities Act and outside the United States, to non-U.S. persons in reliance on the exemption from registration set forth in Regulation S under the Securities Act. The Senior Notes and the related guarantees have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction and may not be offered or sold in the United States without registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the Senior Notes, nor shall it constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
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