Prospect Capital Corporation Prices Public Offering of $150 Million of 6.25% Unsecured Notes Due 2024
(firmenpresse) - NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 12/03/15 -- Prospect Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: PSEC) ("Prospect") announced today that it has priced an underwritten public offering of $150 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.25% unsecured notes due 2024. The notes will mature on June 15, 2024 and may be redeemed in whole or in part at any time or from time to time at our option on or after December 15, 2018. The notes will bear interest at a rate of 6.25% per year payable quarterly on March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 of each year, with the first interest payment occurring on March 15, 2016.
UBS Investment Bank, BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets are acting as joint book-running managers for this offering. BB&T Capital Markets, Deutsche Bank Securities, FBR, Ladenburg Thalmann, Maxim Group LLC, MLV & Co., Oppenheimer & Co. and Wunderlich are acting as co-managers for this offering. The offering is expected to close on December 10, 2015, subject to customary closing conditions. Prospect has granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional $22.5 million in aggregate principal amount of notes.
Prospect expects to use the net proceeds of this offering to redeem its $150 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.25% Convertible Notes due on December 15, 2015 and to pay down the outstanding balance on its credit facility.
The information in the preliminary prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and this press release is not complete and may be changed. The preliminary prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and this press release are not offers to sell any securities of Prospect and are not soliciting an offer to buy such securities in any state where such offer and sale is not permitted.
ABOUT PROSPECT CAPITAL CORPORATION
Prospect Capital Corporation is a business development company that focuses on lending to and investing in private businesses. Prospect's investment objective is to generate both current income and long-term capital appreciation through debt and equity investments.
Prospect has elected to be treated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"). Prospect is required to comply with a series of regulatory requirements under the 1940 Act as well as applicable NASDAQ, federal and state rules and regulations. We have elected to be treated as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Failure to comply with any of the laws and regulations that apply to us could have an adverse effect on us and our shareholders.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, whose safe harbor for forward-looking statements does not apply to business development companies. Any such statements, other than statements of historical fact, are highly likely to be affected by other unknowable future events and conditions, including elements of the future that are or are not under our control, and that we may or may not have considered; accordingly, such statements cannot be guarantees or assurances of any aspect of future performance. Actual developments and results are highly likely to vary materially from these statements. Such statements speak only as of the time when made, and we undertake no obligation to update any such statement now or in the future.
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Datum: 03.12.2015 - 19:29 Uhr
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