Holders tendered US$1,007,324,000 of the 6.750% senior notes due 2028 issued by CSN Inova Ventures by the expiration of a private exchange offer, the company said. That amount represents 77.49% of the outstanding 2028 notes and had not been validly withdrawn as of the expiration time.
The issuer is a Cayman Islands exempted company and a directly wholly-owned subsidiary of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, the Brazilian steelmaker listed in New York as SID. The subsidiary was previously named CSN Islands XI Corp.
According to the announcement, the minimum participation condition has been satisfied. The issuer said it expects to accept for exchange all notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn, subject to the remaining conditions set out in the offering memorandum. Those conditions were not itemised in the release.
The transaction was structured as a private exchange offer combined with a consent solicitation, meaning the issuer was simultaneously asking holders to approve changes to the terms governing the existing notes. The release did not describe the proposed amendments, the terms of the new securities being offered, or a settlement date.
On the participation figure given, the residual stub left outstanding after settlement would be roughly 22.5% of the original series, implying an original outstanding amount of about US$1.3 billion and something in the order of US$290 million of 2028 notes remaining in the hands of non-participating holders. Those holders would continue to be bound by the indenture as amended if the consent solicitation carried.
Exchange offers of this kind are typically used to push out a maturity wall — replacing paper coming due at a fixed date with longer-dated debt — rather than to reduce the total amount owed. The release gave no information on the maturity or coupon of the new notes, so the effect on CSN's interest cost and debt schedule cannot be assessed from this disclosure alone.
CSN said the results announced are final for the expiration time. No further timetable was provided for closing the exchange or for the effectiveness of any amendments obtained through the consent solicitation.
Source: GlobeNewswire
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