Item 1.01 Entry into Material Definitive Agreement.
On August 15, 2017, the lenders under the Company’s Credit Agreement, dated as of November 24, 2015 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “
Credit Agreement
”), by and among the Company, Dice Inc. (“
Dice
”), Dice Career Solutions, Inc. (“
DCS
” and, together with the Company and Dice, the “
Borrowers
”), the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “
Administrative Agent
”), granted a consent (the “
Consent
”) for the Borrowers to consummate the Specified Dispositions, subject to the terms of the Credit Agreement and so long as the Specified Dispositions are consummated on or prior to August 15, 2018. In addition, the lenders agreed to authorize the Administrative Agent to, upon the consummation of the Specified Dispositions, (i) release any lien held by the Administrative Agent on assets related to the Specified Dispositions and (ii) release Rigzone from the Subsidiary Guaranty (as defined in the Credit Agreement).
In addition, in light of the Borrowers’ anticipated reduced need for borrowings, the Borrowers have instructed the lenders to reduce the available commitments under the Credit Agreement from $250 million to $150 million, pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement.
Forward-Looking Statements
This filing contains or may contain “forward-looking statements” intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. These statements contain words such as “plan,” “intend” or the negative of these words or other words or expressions of similar meaning may identify forward-looking statements and are found at various places throughout this Form 8-K. These forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, those relating to the Specified Dispositions, wherever they occur in this filing, are based on management’s current expectations about future events and are necessarily estimates reflecting the best judgment of management and involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve risks and uncertainties that cannot be predicted or quantified, and, consequently, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, our ability to execute our tech-focused strategy, the review of potential dispositions of certain of our businesses and the terms and timing of any such transactions and other factors discussed in more detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016, under the headings “Risk Factors,” “Forward-Looking Statements” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”
You are cautioned to not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this filing. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this filing or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.