Oil States Announces Pricing of $135 Million Principal Amount of Convertible Senior Notes Due 2026
The Notes will be senior, unsecured obligations of the Company. The Notes, which priced at par, will bear interest at a rate of 4.75% per year, payable semiannually in arrears on
The Notes will be convertible based on an initial conversion rate of 95.3516 shares of the Company’s common stock per
The Notes will be convertible into, subject to various conditions, cash, shares of the Company’s common stock, or a combination thereof, at the Company’s election.
The Company estimates that the net proceeds from the offering of the Notes will be approximately
Contemporaneously with the pricing of the Notes in the offering, the Company entered into separate and individually negotiated transactions (the “concurrent note repurchases”) with certain holders of the 2023 Convertible Notes to repurchase
The Company expects that certain holders of any 2023 Convertible Notes that the Company agreed to repurchase that have hedged their equity price risk with respect to such 2023 Convertible Notes (the “hedged holders”) will, concurrently with the pricing of the Notes, unwind all or part of their hedge positions by buying the Company’s common stock and/or entering into or unwinding various derivative transactions with respect to the Company’s common stock. The amount of the Company’s common stock to be purchased by the hedged holders may be substantial in relation to the historical average daily trading volume of the Company’s common stock. Any repurchase of the 2023 Convertible Notes and the potential related market activities by holders of the 2023 Convertible Notes participating in the concurrent note repurchases could increase (or reduce the size of any decrease in) the market price of the Company’s common stock and may have increased the initial conversion price of the Notes. The Company cannot predict the magnitude of such market activity or the overall effect it will have on the price of the Notes or the Company’s common stock.
The offer and sale of the Notes were not, and the offer and sale of any shares of the Company’s common stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes are not expected to be, registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction, and the Notes and any such shares may not be offered or sold in
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities, nor shall it constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful. Any offer, if at all, will be made only pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
Forward Looking Statements
The foregoing contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements are those that do not state historical facts and are, therefore, inherently subject to risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements included herein are based on current expectations and entail various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among other things, the Company’s ability to consummate the offering, the Company’s ability to effectuate the concurrent note repurchases or future note repurchases of the 2023 Convertible Notes, the other risks associated with the general nature of the energy service industry and other factors discussed in the “Business” and “Risk Factors” sections of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
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Source: Oil States International, Inc.