Commercial Metals Company Announces Expiration and Results of Registered Exchange Offer for Previously Issued 5.750% Senior Notes Due 2026
Jan 16, 2019, 06:45 ET
IRVING, Texas, Jan. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Commercial Metals Company (NYSE: CMC) ("CMC" or the "Company") today announced the final results of its previously announced offer to exchange up to $350.0 million in aggregate principal amount of new 5.750% Senior Notes due 2026 (the "New Notes"), which have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), for a like principal amount of unregistered 5.750% Senior Notes due 2026 (the "Old Notes"). The New Notes were offered in order to satisfy registration rights previously granted to the holders of the Old Notes.
As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on January 15, 2019 (the "Expiration Date"), $350.0 million in aggregate principal amount (which is 100% of the total outstanding principal amount) of the Old Notes had been validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) and accepted for exchange in the exchange offer. The final settlement of the exchange offer is expected to take place on or about January 16, 2019.
The terms of the New Notes are substantially identical to those of the Old Notes, except that the New Notes have been registered under the Securities Act, will not have securities law transfer restrictions or registration rights and will not provide for the payment of additional interest under circumstances relating to the timing of the exchange offer.
The exchange offer was made under the terms and conditions set forth in the Company's prospectus dated December 13, 2018. U.S. Bank National Association acted as Exchange Agent in the exchange offer.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to exchange nor a solicitation of an offer to exchange the Old Notes. The exchange offer was made only by the prospectus dated December 13, 2018 and the related letter of transmittal and only to such persons and in such jurisdictions as was permitted under applicable law.
About Commercial Metals Company
Commercial Metals Company and its subsidiaries manufacture, recycle and market steel and metal products, related materials and services through a network of facilities that includes eight electric arc furnace ("EAF") mini mills, two EAF micro mills, a rerolling mill, steel fabrication and processing plants, construction-related product warehouses, and metal recycling facilities in the United States and Poland.
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