Item 1.01.
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Revolving Credit Agreement
On May 17, 2019, FMC Corporation (the “
Company
”) entered into a Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement among the Company, as U.S. Borrower, certain foreign subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, as Euro Borrowers (the “
Revolving Euro Borrowers
” and together with the Company, the “
Revolving Borrowers
”), the lenders (the “
Revolving Credit Lenders
”) and issuing banks party thereto, Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent, Citibank, N.A. and BofA Securities, Inc., as joint lead arrangers, Bank of America, N.A., as syndication agent, and certain other financial institutions party thereto as co-documentation agents (the “
Revolving Credit Agreement
”).
The Revolving Credit Agreement provides for a $1.5 billion revolving credit facility, $400 million of which is available for the issuance of letters of credit for the account of the Revolving Borrowers and $50 million of which is available for swing loans to certain of the Revolving Borrowers, with an option, subject to certain conditions and limitations, to increase the aggregate amount of the revolving credit commitments to $2.25 billion (the “
Revolving Credit Facility
”). The Revolving Credit Facility is a senior unsecured obligation that ranks equally with the Company’s other senior unsecured obligations. The issuance of letters of credit and the proceeds of revolving credit loans made pursuant to the Revolving Credit Facility are available and will be used for general corporate purposes of the Company and its subsidiaries.
Amounts under the Revolving Credit Facility may be borrowed, repaid and re-borrowed from time to time until the current termination date of the Revolving Credit Facility on May 17, 2024, which is the date five years after the Revolving Credit Facility’s effective date of May 17, 2019. The Company also has the option, subject to certain conditions and prior to each of the first and second anniversaries of such effective date, to extend the termination date of the Revolving Credit Facility to the date that is one year after the current termination date. Voluntary prepayments and commitment reductions under the Revolving Credit Facility are permitted at any time without payment of any prepayment fee upon proper notice and subject to minimum dollar amounts.
Revolving loans under the Revolving Credit Agreement will bear interest at a floating rate, which will be a base rate or a Eurocurrency rate equal to the London interbank offered rate for the relevant interest period, plus, in each case, an applicable margin, as determined in accordance with the provisions of the Revolving Credit Agreement. The base rate will be the highest of: the rate of interest announced publicly by Citibank, N.A. in New York, New York from time to time as its “base rate”; the federal funds effective rate plus 1/2 of 1%; and the Eurocurrency rate for a one-month period plus 1%. The Company is required to pay a facility fee on the average daily amount (whether used or unused) of each Revolving Credit Lender’s revolving credit commitment from the effective date for such Revolving Credit Lender until the termination date of such Revolving Credit Lender at a rate per annum equal to an applicable percentage in effect from time to time for the facility fee, as determined in accordance with the provisions of the Revolving Credit Agreement. The initial facility fee is 0.125% per annum. The applicable margin and the facility fee are subject to adjustment as provided in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
The Credit Facility is unsecured, except that the Company has provided the Revolving Credit Lenders a guaranty with respect to payment of the loans made to the Revolving Euro Borrowers and the swing loan borrowers under the Revolving Credit Agreement. The Revolving Credit Agreement contains financial and other covenants, including a maximum leverage ratio and minimum interest coverage ratio, and includes limitations on, among other things, liens, fundamental changes, changes in the nature of the Company’s business and compliance with certain anti-corruption laws, anti-money laundering laws and regulations or executive orders administered by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control or other similar economic sanctions administered or enforced by the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom or the United Nations Security Council. The Revolving Credit Agreement also contains certain representations, warranties and events of default, in each case as set forth in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
The foregoing description of the Revolving Credit Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Revolving Credit Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
Some of the Revolving Credit Lenders and their affiliates have various relationships with the Company involving the provision of financial services, including cash management, investment banking and trust and leasing services. In addition, the Company has entered into interest rate, foreign exchange and energy derivative arrangements with some of the Revolving Credit Lenders and their affiliates.