Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIRT) announced today that its subsidiaries, VFH Parent LLC and Valor Co-Issuer, Inc., intend to offer $500 million aggregate principal amount of senior first lien notes due 2031.
This is an opportunistic private offering that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
The notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior secured first-lien basis by Virtu Financial LLC and each of Virtu Financial’s existing and future wholly owned domestic subsidiaries that guarantee, or are borrowers under, the Issuer’s senior secured first lien credit facilities. The Offering remains subject to market and other customary conditions.
The Issuers intend to use the proceeds of the Offering to repay $500 million aggregate principal amount outstanding under the Issuer’s existing senior secured first lien term loan facility.
Concurrently with the consummation of the Offering, the Issuer intends to amend its existing credit agreement to (i) provide for a $1,245 million senior secured first lien term loan facility, (ii) increase the commitments under its existing senior secured first lien revolving credit facility to $300 million and extend the maturity thereof and (iii) amend certain other provisions of its existing credit agreement.
The Issuer intends to use cash on hand to pay discounts, fees, commissions and expenses of the Offering, the closing of the amended credit facilities and the refinancing of the existing term loan facility.
