Fifth Street Senior Floating Rate Corp. Prices Initial Public Offering of Common Stock
July 11 2013 - 6:45PM
Fifth Street Senior Floating Rate Corp. (Nasdaq:FSFR) (the
"Company") today announced that it priced its initial public
offering of 6,666,668 shares of its common stock at a public
offering price of $15.00 per share for total proceeds of $100
million. All shares are being offered by the Company. Morgan
Stanley, Deutsche Bank Securities, UBS Investment Bank and Barclays
are acting as lead book-running managers for the offering, RBC
Capital Markets and Oppenheimer & Co. are acting as joint
book-running managers for the offering and Maxim Group LLC, JMP
Securities, Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., Wunderlich
Securities and National Securities Corporation are acting as
co-managers for the offering.
The closing of the offering is subject to customary closing
conditions and the shares are expected to be delivered on or about
July 17, 2013. The Company has also granted the underwriters an
overallotment option to purchase up to 1,000,000 additional shares
of common stock.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering
to make investments in middle market companies in accordance with
its investment objective and strategies described in the prospectus
and for general working capital purposes.
A registration statement relating to these securities
was filed and has been declared effective by the
Securities and Exchange Commission. This offering may be made
solely by means of a prospectus forming part of the effective
registration statement, which may be obtained from the following
investment banks: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC,
180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014, or by
emailing prospectus@morganstanley.com (telephone number
1-866-718-1649); Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Attn: Prospectus
Group, 60 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005-2836, or by
emailing prospectus.cpdg@db.com (telephone number 1-800-503-4611);
UBS Securities LLC, 299 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10171
(telephone number 1-888-827-7275); Barclays Capital Inc., c/o
Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood,
New York 11717, or by emailing
Barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com
(telephone number 1-888-603-5847); RBC
Capital Markets, LLC, Attn: Prospectus Department, 200 Vesey
Street, 8th Floor, New York, New York 10281 (telephone number
1-877-822-4089); or Oppenheimer & Co., Attn: Syndicate
Prospectus Department, 85 Broad Street, 26th Floor, New York, New
York 10004, or by emailing EquityProspectus@opco.com (telephone
number 212-667-8563 or facsimile number 212-667-6141).
Investors are advised to carefully
consider the investment objective, risks, charges and expenses of
the Company before investing. The preliminary
prospectus dated July 8, 2013, which has been filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, contains such information and
other information about the Company and should be read carefully
before investing.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a
solicitation of an offer to buy nor will there be any sale of the
shares referred to in this press release in any state or
jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be
unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the
securities laws of such state or jurisdiction.
About Fifth Street Senior Floating Rate Corp.
Fifth Street Senior Floating Rate Corp. is a newly organized
business development company that will invest primarily in senior
secured loans, including first lien, unitranche and second lien
debt instruments, that pay interest at rates which are determined
periodically on the basis of a floating base lending rate, made to
private middle market companies whose debt is rated below
investment grade. The Company's investment objective is to maximize
its portfolio's total return by generating current income from its
debt investments while seeking to preserve its capital. The Company
will be managed by Fifth Street Management LLC, which also manages
Fifth Street Finance Corp. (Nasdaq:FSC), a publicly-traded business
development company.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including statements with regard to the Company's securities
offering and the anticipated use of the net proceeds of the
offering. Words such as "believes," "intends," "expects,"
"projects," "anticipates," and "future" or similar expressions are
intended to identify forward-looking statements. These
forward-looking statements are subject to the inherent
uncertainties in predicting future results and conditions and no
assurance can be given that the securities offering discussed above
will be consummated on the terms described or at all. Completion of
the securities offering and the terms thereof are subject to
numerous factors, many of which are beyond the control of the
Company, including, without limitation, market conditions, changes
in interest rates, failure of customary closing conditions and
other matters set forth in the Company's prospectus. The Company
undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
CONTACT: Investor Contact:
Dean Choksi, Senior Vice President
of Finance & Head of Investor Relations
Fifth Street Senior Floating Rate Corp.
(914) 286-6855
dchoksi@fifthstreetfinance.com
Media Contact:
James Velgot, Chief Marketing Officer
Fifth Street Senior Floating Rate Corp.
(914) 286-6848
jvelgot@fifthstreetfinance.com
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