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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Tranche A Term Loans
On June 1, 2023, Element Solutions Inc (the "Company"), MacDermid, Incorporated
("MacDermid," and together with the Company, the "Borrowers"), certain subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, Citibank, N.A., as collateral agent and administrative agent (the "Agent"), and the lenders party thereto, entered into an Amendment No. 7 and Joinder to Credit Agreement ("Amendment No. 7"), which amends that certain credit agreement, dated as of January 31, 2019 (as amended and/or supplemented from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among the Borrowers, the Agent and the lending institutions from time to time parties thereto.
Pursuant to Amendment No. 7, the Borrowers borrowed
new U.S. dollar-denominated term loans (the "Tranche A Term Loans") under an incremental term loan facility (the "Term Loan A Facility") in an aggregate principal amount of $150 million under the Credit Agreement. The proceeds of the Tranche A Term Loans were used to finance the termination of a long-standing distribution agreement, which transaction closed on June 1, 2023.
The applicable interest rate for the Tranche A Term Loans funded on June 1, 2023 is Term SOFR (as defined in the Credit Agreement), plus a spread of 1.75% per annum.
Borrowings under the Term Loan A Facility bear interest for each interest period at an interest rate per annum plus a spread based on the type of loan selected by the
Company. The applicable spread will be 1.75% for Term SOFR loans and 0.75% for base rate loans, plus, in each case, an interest rate per annum equal to (a) for Term SOFR loans, a SOFR rate, subject to a rate floor of 0, and (b) for base rate loans, the highest of the applicable (i) Federal Funds rate plus 0.50%, (ii) prime rate as quoted by The Wall Street Journal, and (iii) SOFR rate for a one-month interest period, plus 1.00%.
Under Amendment No. 7, the Tranche A Term Loans and any other borrowing under the Term Loan A Facility are subject to a maintenance financial covenant, which requires the Borrowers to maintain a first lien net leverage ratio lower than or equal to 5.00 to 1.00 as of the last day of any fiscal quarter, subject to a right to cure.
Except as set forth in Amendment No.7, the Tranche A Term Loans have identical terms as the
Company’s existing $750 million tranche B term loans, including a maturity date of January 31, 2026, and are otherwise subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement. Certain restricted subsidiaries of the Borrowers acting as guarantors under the Credit Agreement (the "Guarantors") will guarantee the Borrowers’ obligations under the Tranche A Term Loans. The Tranche A Term Loans will also be secured by the collateral pledged by the Borrowers and the Guarantors under that certain Pledge and Security Agreement, dated as of January 31, 2019, among the Borrowers, the Guarantors and the predecessor agent (as amended and/or supplemented from time to time, the "Security Agreement"), which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.7.
The foregoing
descriptions of Amendment No. 7 and the Credit Agreement do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full texts of Amendment No. 7, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1, and the Credit Agreement, dated as of January 31, 2019, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.2, as amended by Amendments No. 1, 3, 4 and 6, which are included herewith as Exhibits 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6, respectively, and which are all incorporated herein by reference. Neither Amendment No. 2 nor Amendment No. 5 to the Credit Agreement was a material amendment.
Swap Transactions
On June 1, 2023, the Company entered
into swap transactions (the "Swaps") with certain banks, including lenders of the Tranche A Term Loans (the "Hedge Counterparties"). The Swaps are governed by ISDA Master Agreements with each of the Hedge Counterparties and enable the Company to effectively convert the Tranche A Term Loans, a U.S. dollar denominated debt obligation, into fixed-rate euro-denominated debt through a combination of interest rate swaps and cross-currency swaps. Under the Swap agreements, the Company is required to make periodic euro-denominated coupon payments to the Hedge Counterparties on an aggregate initial notional amount of approximately €140.2 million in exchange for periodic U.S. dollar-denominated coupon payments from the Hedge Counterparties on an aggregate initial notional amount of $150 million
at a fixed EUR all-in rate of 4.59%. Each Swap matures on January 31, 2026.
Item 2.03. Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation.
The information set forth under Item 1.01 regarding Amendment No. 7 and the Swaps is incorporated by reference herein.
Item 9.01. Financial
Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
The following exhibits are filed or furnished herewith:
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.