Senior Housing Properties Trust Prices 6,500,000 Common Share Offering
September 10 2009 - 9:11AM
Business Wire
Senior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE: SNH) today announced that
it has priced a public offering of 6,500,000 common shares of
beneficial interest at a price of $19.44 per share. The settlement
of this sale is expected to occur on Tuesday, September 15, 2009.
SNH expects to use the proceeds of this offering for general
business purposes, including funding in part pending acquisitions
or possible future acquisitions of properties. The underwriters
have been granted a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional
975,000 shares to cover over allotments, if any. The offering size
has been increased from the previously announced 4,500,000 share
offering.
The joint book-running managers for this offering are BofA
Merrill Lynch, UBS Investment Bank and Wells Fargo Securities. The
co-lead managers for this offering are Citi, Morgan Stanley, RBC
Capital Markets and Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc. The
co-managers for this offering are Janney Montgomery Scott LLC,
Jefferies & Company and Oppenheimer & Co.
This press release is not an offer to sell nor a solicitation of
an offer to buy shares, nor shall there be any sale of these
securities in any state or jurisdiction in which the offer,
solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or
qualification under the securities laws of such state or
jurisdiction. Copies of the prospectus supplement and related
prospectus may be obtained from the offices of BofA Merrill Lynch,
Attn: Prospectus Department, 4 World Financial Center, New York, NY
10080; UBS Investment Bank, Attn: Prospectus Department, 299 Park
Avenue, New York, NY 10171 (telephone: 888-827-7275); and Wells
Fargo Securities, LLC, Attn: Equity Syndicate Department, 375 Park
Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10152 (e-mail:
equity.syndicate@wachovia.com or telephone: 800-326-5897) or by
contacting any of the other managing underwriters.
WARNING REGARDING FORWARD LOOKING
STATEMENTS
THIS PRESS RELEASE INCLUDES FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS WITHIN
THE MEANING OF THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995
AND THE FEDERAL SECURITIES LAWS. THESE FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
ARE BASED UPON SNH’S PRESENT BELIEFS AND EXPECTATION, BUT THESE
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS ARE NOT GUARANTEED TO OCCUR AND MAY NOT
OCCUR FOR VARIOUS REASONS. FOR EXAMPLE:
- THIS PRESS RELEASE STATES THAT
THE SETTLEMENT OF THE SALE OF COMMON SHARES IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR ON
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009. IN FACT, THE SETTLEMENT OF THIS OFFERING IS
SUBJECT TO VARIOUS CONDITIONS AND CONTINGENCIES AS ARE CUSTOMARY IN
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES. IF THESE CONDITIONS
ARE NOT SATISFIED OR THE SPECIFIED CONTINGENCIES OCCUR, THIS
OFFERING MAY NOT CLOSE.
- THIS PRESS RELEASE STATES THAT
THE UNDERWRITERS HAVE BEEN GRANTED AN OPTION TO PURCHASE UP TO AN
ADDITIONAL 975,000 COMMON SHARES TO COVER OVER ALLOTMENTS, IF ANY.
AN IMPLICATION OF THIS STATEMENT MAY BE THAT THIS OPTION MAY BE
EXERCISED IN WHOLE OR IN PART. IN FACT, SNH DOES NOT KNOW WHETHER
THIS OPTION, OR ANY PART OF IT, WILL BE EXERCISED, AND THE
UNDERWRITERS MAY NOT DO SO.
FOR THESE REASONS, AMONG OTHERS, INVESTORS ARE CAUTIONED NOT TO
PLACE UNDUE RELIANCE UPON FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS.
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