United States Steel Corporation Announces Pricing of Senior Secured Notes Offering
21/05/2020 22:26 RSF
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PITTSBURGH, May 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) (the “company” or "U. S. Steel") today announced the pricing of its previously announced private offering of $1,056,357,000.00 aggregate principal amount of 12.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 (the "notes.") The notes will be issued at a price equal to 94.665% of their face value. The notes will pay interest semi-annually in arrears on June 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on December 1, 2020 and will mature on June 1, 2025, unless earlier redeemed or repurchased. The sale of the notes is expected to close on May 29, 2020, subject to customary closing conditions.
The notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior secured basis by all of the company’s existing and future direct and indirect subsidiaries, other than certain “excluded subsidiaries.” Additionally, the notes and the note guarantees will be secured by first-priority liens, subject to permitted liens, on substantially all of the company’s and the guarantors’ assets, other than certain “excluded assets.”
U. S. Steel intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to strengthen its balance sheet, increase liquidity and for general corporate purposes.
The notes have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act,") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to any U.S. persons unless pursuant to registration under the Securities Act, or an applicable exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. The notes are being offered only to persons reasonably believed to be "qualified institutional buyers" under Rule 144A of the Securities Act or, outside the United States, to persons other than “U.S. persons” in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities Act.