Item 1.01.
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Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
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On October 11, 2017, CoreCivic, Inc., a
Maryland corporation (the Company), announced the commencement and pricing of an offering of $250.0 million aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes due 2027 (the Notes), subject to market and other customary
conditions, to be issued and sold at a coupon rate and yield to maturity of 4.75%, pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) on May 15, 2015, as amended (File
No. 333-204234)
(the Registration Statement). In connection with the offering, the Company and its subsidiary guarantors named therein (the Guarantors) entered into an underwriting
agreement (the Underwriting Agreement) with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., as representatives of the underwriters listed on Schedule A
thereto. The offering of the Notes closed on October 13, 2017.
The Company and the Guarantors have made certain customary
representations, warranties and covenants in the Underwriting Agreement concerning the Company, the Guarantors, the Registration Statement and offering documents related to the offering of the Notes and the related guarantees. The Company and the
Guarantors have agreed to indemnify the Underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
The Company issued the Notes pursuant to an indenture dated as of September 25, 2015 (the Base Indenture), between the
Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the Trustee), as supplemented by the second supplemental indenture dated as of October 13, 2017 (the Second Supplemental Indenture and together with the Base
Indenture the Indenture), by and among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee. Pursuant to the Second Supplemental Indenture, interest on the Notes will be payable semi-annually in cash in arrears on April 15 and
October 15 of each year, beginning April 15, 2018 and will mature on October 15, 2027.
The Notes and the guarantees are
unsecured, unsubordinated obligations of the Company and the Guarantors, respectively. The Notes rank equally in right of payment with any unsecured, unsubordinated senior indebtedness of the Company, including the Companys 4.625% Senior Notes
due 2023, the Companys 4.125% Senior Notes due 2020 and the Companys 5.00% Senior Notes due 2022 (collectively, the Existing Notes), and the guarantees rank equally in right of payment with any unsecured, unsubordinated
senior indebtedness of the Guarantors, including the Guarantors guarantees of the Existing Notes. The Notes and guarantees rank senior in right of payment to any future indebtedness of the Company or the Guarantors that is expressly
subordinated to the Notes and the guarantees, respectively, and are subordinated to any secured indebtedness of the Company and the Guarantors, including indebtedness under, and guarantees of, the Companys Amended and Restated Credit
Agreement, dated as of March 22, 2013, as amended on July 22, 2015 and on October 6, 2015, by and among the Company, as borrower, Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, and the lenders who are, or may from time to time
become, a party thereto, to the extent of the value of the assets securing such indebtedness, and structurally junior to all obligations of the Companys
non-guarantor
subsidiaries, including trade
payables (other than indebtedness and liabilities owed to us).
The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement, the Base
Indenture, the Second Supplemental Indenture and the Form of 4.75% Note due 2027 are each qualified in their entirety by reference to the Underwriting Agreement, the Base Indenture, the Second Supplemental Indenture and the Form of 4.75% Note due
2027, as applicable, copies of which are filed as Exhibit 1.1, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 respectively, to this Current Report on Form
8-K
and incorporated by reference herein.