Spirit Airlines, Inc. (NYSE: SAVE) ("Spirit") today announced it has priced its underwritten public offering of $440,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.00% convertible senior notes due 2026 (the "Convertible Notes" and such offering, the "Convertible Notes Offering"). The net proceeds to Spirit from the Convertible Notes Offering, after deducting underwriting discounts and other offering expenses, are expected to be approximately $428.3 million.
Spirit has granted the underwriters of the Convertible Notes Offering a 30-day option to purchase up to $60,000,000 aggregate principal amount of additional Convertible Notes, solely to cover over-allotments, in the Convertible Notes Offering. The Convertible Notes will be convertible by holders if certain conditions are met, and during certain periods, based on an initial conversion rate of 20.3791 shares of common stock per $1,000 principal amount of the Convertible Notes, which is equivalent to a conversion price of approximately $49.07 per share, representing a premium of approximately 40.0% over the last reported sale price of $35.05 per share of Spirit's common stock on April 28, 2021. Spirit will settle conversions of the Convertible Notes in cash or a combination of cash and shares of common stock, at Spirit's election.
Spirit also separately priced its registered direct offering of 10,594,073 shares of its common stock at an offering price of $35.05 per share (the "Common Stock Offering").
Spirit expects to use approximately $368.7 million of the net proceeds from the Common Stock Offering to redeem $340.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 8.00% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 at a redemption price equal to 108.0%, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount being redeemed up to, but excluding, the redemption date. Spirit expects to use the net proceeds from the Convertible Notes Offering (together with existing cash on hand, if the underwriters do not exercise their option to purchase additional Convertible Notes) to repurchase approximately $146.8 million aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the "2025 Convertible Notes") for approximately $440.7 million, including accrued and unpaid interest on the 2025 Convertible Notes repurchased, pursuant to privately negotiated agreements with a limited number of current holders of such 2025 Convertible Notes, which agreements are conditioned upon the consummation of the Convertible Notes Offering. Spirit expects to use the remaining net proceeds from the Common Stock Offering and any remaining net proceeds from the Convertible Notes Offering for general corporate purposes. Each of the Common Stock Offering and the Convertible Notes Offering is expected to close on April 30, 2021, subject to customary closing conditions. The closing of neither the Common Stock Offering nor the Convertible Notes Offering is conditioned upon the closing of the other offering.
Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and Deutsche Bank Securities are acting as underwriters for the Convertible Notes Offering. We have filed with the SEC a registration statement (including a prospectus) relating to the Common Stock Offering and Convertible Notes Offering and, in the case of the Convertible Notes Offering, a preliminary prospectus supplement. Before you invest, you should read the preliminary prospectus supplement (in the case of the Convertible Notes Offering) and the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents we have filed with the SEC for more complete information about us and these offerings. You may get these documents free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, we, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the Convertible Notes Offering will arrange to send you the preliminary prospectus supplement (or, when available, the final prospectus supplement) for the Convertible Notes Offering and the accompanying prospectus upon request to: Barclays Capital Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York, 11717, or by telephone at (888) 603-5847, or by email at barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com; Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014, Attention: Prospectus Department; Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Attn.: Prospectus Department, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, telephone: (800) 831-9146 (toll-free); or Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., 60 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005, Attn: Prospectus Group, or by telephone: 800-503-4611, or by email: prospectus.CPDG@db.com. In addition, we will arrange to send you the prospectus (and, when available, the final prospectus supplement) relating to the Common Stock Offering upon request to Spirit Airlines, Inc., Attention: Investor Relations, 2800 Executive Way, Miramar, Florida 33025, or by telephone at (954) 447-7920.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the shares of common stock or the Convertible Notes or any other securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration and qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction.