WINDSTREAM ANNOUNCES DEBT EXCHANGE OFFERS FOR SECOND LIEN NOTES
Published on June 15, 2018
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIN) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Windstream Services, LLC (the “Issuer”) and Windstream Finance Corp. (the “Co-Issuer” and, together with the Issuer, the “Issuers,” “Windstream,” or the “Company”), are commencing certain debt exchange offers with respect to certain series of the Company’s senior notes.
Windstream believes these debt exchange offers, if accepted, will provide the Company with an extended maturity profile and enhance its liquidity over the coming years.
2020 Exchange Offer
The Company is offering to exchange (the “2020 Exchange Offer”) any and all of its 7.75% senior notes due 2020 (the “2020 Notes”) for new 9.375% senior second lien notes due 2024 (the “2024 Second Lien Notes”). The 2020 Exchange Offer will be subject to certain conditions as will be set forth in the applicable offering memorandum and letter of transmittal, including the condition (the “Minimum Tender Condition”) that 2020 Notes with an aggregate principal amount of at least $443.7 million are tendered in the 2020 Exchange Offer (the “Minimum Tender Amount”). The Company reserves the right to increase, decrease or otherwise change the Minimum Tender Amount and/or waive the Minimum Tender Condition in its sole discretion without extending the early tender date or the withdrawal deadline or otherwise reinstating withdrawal rights,