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Lincoln Electric Completes $550 Million Private Placement of Senior Unsecured Notes and Related Refinancing Transactions
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) (Nasdaq: LECO) today announced that it has issued a new series of senior
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[{"type":"text","content":" CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nLincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) (Nasdaq: LECO) today announced that it has issued a new series of senior unsecured private placement notes (collectively the “Notes”) in the aggregate principal amount of $550 million. The proceeds of the Notes will be used to repay the Company’s $400 million term loan and for general corporate purposes. In addition, the Company entered into a new revolving credit facility to provide up to $1 billion of borrowing capacity, in alignment with the capital allocation priorities of the Company’s Higher Standard 2025 Strategy.\n\n\nThe Company and certain of its subsidiaries issued senior unsecured private placement notes in the aggregate principal amount of $550 million consisting of:\n\n\nSeries A: $75 million at 5.55% per annum to mature August 2029\nSeries B: $75 million at 5.62% per annum to mature August 2031\nSeries C: $400 million at 5.74% per annum to mature June 2034\n\n\nThe Notes may be prepaid at any time and interest will be paid semi-annually.\n\n\nFollowing the completion of these transactions, the Company will have $1.25 billion in total debt outstanding under the new and existing senior unsecured private placement notes, with a weighted average interest rate, including the impact of interest rate swaps, of 4.08% and an average tenor of 9.5 years. The Company expects its full year 2024 ‘interest expense, net’ position to be relatively steady versus the prior year.\n\n\nIn addition, the Company has terminated its 2021 $500 million revolving credit facility and has entered into a new five-year credit agreement for a $1 billion revolving credit facility, which increases the Company’s liquidity to align with higher EBITDA performance. The new revolving credit facility will initially bear interest on outstanding borrowings at a per annum rate equal to SOFR plus 1.10% and could fluctuate based on the Company’s total net leverage ratio at a spread ranging from SOFR plus 1.10% to SOFR plus 1.60%. The financial covenants consist of a maximum net leverage ratio of 3.5x EBITDA and a minimum interest coverage ratio of 2.5x EBITDA. The Company had no outstanding borrowings under the new revolving credit facility at closing.\n\n\nThe Notes were not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or any state securities law...