Diversified Healthcare Trust Prices $941 Million Zero Coupon Senior Secured Notes with a Maturity Date of January 15, 2026 and a One-Year Extension Option
December 19 2023 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Proceeds Will be Used to Repay in Full All 2024
Maturities, Including $450 Million Secured Credit Facility and $250
Million of Senior Unsecured Notes
Will Immediately Regain Compliance with Debt
Incurrence Covenants upon Closing
Diversified Healthcare Trust (Nasdaq: DHC) today announced that
it has priced an aggregate principal amount of $941 million of
senior secured notes due January 2026, with a 12-month extension
option, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions and
payment of an extension fee. The notes will generate approximately
$750 million in gross proceeds before issuance costs and will
accrete at a rate of 11.25% annually, compounded semi-annually. If
the 12-month extension option is exercised, interest payments will
be due semi-annually during the extension period at an initial
interest rate of 11.25% with increases of 50 basis points every 90
days that the notes remain outstanding. The closing is expected to
occur on December 21, 2023, subject to the satisfaction of
customary closing conditions. The notes will be guaranteed on a
joint, several and senior secured basis by subsidiaries of DHC that
own the properties comprising the collateral for the notes and on a
joint, several and unsecured basis by all subsidiaries of DHC that
guarantee its existing senior notes due 2025 and 2031. DHC believes
that the collateral properties have an estimated fair value of
approximately $1.57 billion.
The net proceeds from this transaction, after initial purchaser
discounts and offering costs, are expected to be $732 million and
used to repay all of DHC’s outstanding debt maturing in 2024, and
for general business purposes. The debt being repaid includes DHC’s
$450 million secured credit facility and its outstanding 4.750%
Senior Notes due in May 2024. The offering is expected to close on
December 21, 2023, subject to customary closing conditions.
Following the closing of this transaction and the repayment of
these outstanding debts, DHC will immediately regain compliance
with the incurrence covenants under its remaining public debt
agreements.
The notes have not and will not be registered under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), any
state securities laws or the securities laws of any other
jurisdiction, and may not be offered or sold in the United States
absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration
under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities laws.
The new notes will be offered only to persons reasonably believed
to be qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A under the
Securities Act and outside the United States only to non-U.S.
investors in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities
Act.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a
solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of
these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an
offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration
or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or
jurisdiction. This press release also does not constitute a notice
of redemption with respect to the redemption of DHC’s 4.750% Senior
Notes due 2024.
About Diversified Healthcare Trust:
DHC is a real estate investment trust focused on owning
high-quality healthcare properties located throughout the United
States. DHC seeks diversification across the health services
spectrum by care delivery and practice type, by scientific research
disciplines and by property type and location. As of September 30,
2023, DHC’s approximately $7.2 billion portfolio included 376
properties in 36 states and Washington, D.C., occupied by
approximately 500 tenants, and totaling approximately 9 million
square feet of life science and medical office properties and more
than 27,000 senior living units. DHC is managed by The RMR Group
(Nasdaq: RMR), a leading U.S. alternative asset management company
with approximately $36 billion in assets under management as of
September 30, 2023 and more than 35 years of institutional
experience in buying, selling, financing and operating commercial
real estate. To learn more about DHC, visit www.dhcreit.com.
WARNING CONCERNING
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains statements, including our statements
about the expected settlement date of the offering of the new notes
and the use of proceeds therefrom, that constitute forward-looking
statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995 and other securities laws. Also, whenever DHC
uses words such as “believe”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “intend”,
“plan”, “estimate”, “will”, “may” and negatives or derivatives of
these or similar expressions, DHC is making forward-looking
statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon DHC’s
present intent, beliefs or expectations, but forward-looking
statements are not guaranteed to occur and may not occur. The
settlement of the offering is subject to various customary
conditions and contingencies. If these conditions are not satisfied
or the specified contingencies do not occur, this offering may not
close. Further, DHC’s current intentions with respect to the use of
the net proceeds from the offering to repay DHC’s secured credit
facility and to fund the redemption of its outstanding 4.750%
Senior Notes due in May 2024 is dependent on the closing of the
offering and may not occur. In addition, although DHC will
immediately be in compliance with the debt incurrence covenants
under its remaining public debt agreements as a result of this
transaction and the repayment of these outstanding debts, DHC may
not be able to execute on additional financing strategies or have
sufficient liquidity available to fund its capital projects as it
currently expects, and DHC may not be able to continue to invest in
the growth and recovery of its senior living communities as a
result of economic and market conditions or other reasons.
Actual results may differ materially from those contained in or
implied by DHC’s forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors, some of which are beyond DHC’s control.
The information contained in DHC’s filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including under “Risk Factors”
in DHC’s periodic reports, or incorporated therein, identifies
other important factors that could cause DHC’s actual results to
differ materially from those stated in or implied by DHC’s
forward-looking statements. DHC’s filings with the SEC are
available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
You should not place undue reliance upon forward-looking
statements.
Except as required by law, DHC does not intend to update or
change any forward-looking statements as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.
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Melissa McCarthy, Manager, Investor Relations (617) 796-8234
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