Item 1.01 |
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
Issuance of 2024-1C Tower Securities and Purchase Agreement for and Issuance of 2024-2C Tower Securities
On October 11, 2024, pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement among SBA Senior Finance, LLC (“SBA Senior Finance”), an indirect subsidiary of SBA Communications Corporation (the “Company”), Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the “Trustee”), and Barclays Capital Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several initial purchasers named on Schedule I thereto (the “Initial Purchasers”), SBA Tower Trust (the “Trust”), a New York common law trust established by SBA Depositor LLC, an indirect subsidiary of the Company (“SBA Depositor”), issued, and the Initial Purchasers purchased, $1.45 billion aggregate principal amount of Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2024-1C (the “2024-1C Tower Securities”). The 2024-1C Tower Securities have an anticipated repayment date in October 2029, a final maturity date in October 2054 and an interest rate of 4.831% per annum.
In addition, on October 11, 2024, SBA Senior Finance, the Trustee and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., an affiliate of Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (the “Purchaser”) entered into a Purchase Agreement (the “2024-2C Purchase Agreement”), pursuant to which the Trust issued, and the Purchaser purchased, $620.0 million aggregate principal amount of Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2024-2C (the “2024-2C Tower Securities”). The 2024-2C Tower Securities have an anticipated repayment date in October 2027, a final maturity date in October 2054 and an interest rate of 5.115% per annum. In conjunction with the anticipated closing of the 2024-2C Tower Securities, SBA Senior Finance entered into a Treasury Rate Lock on September 10, 2024, resulting in an effective rate of 4.654% per annum for the 2024-2C Tower Securities.
To satisfy the applicable risk retention requirements of Regulation RR promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Risk Retention Rules”), SBA Guarantor LLC, an affiliate of SBA Depositor (“SBA Guarantor”) also purchased $108.7 million principal amount of Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2024-1R (the “2024-1R Tower Securities” and, together with the 2024-1C Tower Securities and the 2024-2C Tower Securities, the “2024 Tower Securities”) in order to retain an “eligible horizontal residual interest” (as defined in the Risk Retention Rules) in an amount equal to at least 5% of the fair value of the offered and retained securities. Principal and interest payments made on the 2024-1R Tower Securities eliminate in consolidation. The 2024-1R Tower Securities have an anticipated repayment date in October 2029, a final maturity date in October 2054 and an interest rate of 6.252% per annum.
The net proceeds from the offering were approximately $2.057 billion after deducting initial purchasers’ discounts and expenses. A portion of the net proceeds from the offering were used to repay the entire aggregate principal amount of the Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2014-2C ($620.0 million) (the “2014-2C Tower Securities”), as well as accrued and unpaid interest, to pay fees and expenses relating to the transactions and to make a cash distribution to SBA Guarantor, which will further distribute such amount to one or more other Company entities to be used for general corporate purposes, which may include repaying outstanding corporate debt. A portion of the net proceeds from the offering will be deposited to a segregated account and used to repay the Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2019-1C ($1.165 billion) (the “2019-1C Tower Securities”) and the Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2019-1R ($61.4 million) (the “2019-1R Tower Securities”) on the Distribution Date in January 2025, as well as accrued and unpaid interest.
Eleventh Loan and Security Agreement Supplement
In connection with the issuance of the 2024 Tower Securities, SBA Properties, LLC, SBA Sites, LLC, SBA Structures, LLC, SBA Infrastructure, LLC, SBA Monarch Towers III, LLC, SBA 2012 TC Assets PR, LLC, SBA 2012 TC Assets, LLC, SBA Towers IV, LLC, SBA Monarch Towers I, LLC, SBA Towers USVI, Inc., SBA GC Towers, LLC, SBA Towers VII, LLC, SBA Towers V, LLC, and SBA Towers VI, LLC (the “Borrowers”) and Midland Loan Services, a division of PNC Bank, National Association, as servicer on behalf of the Trustee, entered into a Eleventh Loan and Security Agreement Supplement and Amendment, dated October 11, 2024 (the “Eleventh Loan Supplement”), which supplemented and amended the Second Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement, dated October 15, 2014.
Pursuant to the Eleventh Loan Supplement, among other things, (1) the outstanding principal amount of the mortgage loan (the “Mortgage Loan”) was increased by $2.18 billion (or by a net of $332.3 million after giving effect to the repayment of the 2014-2C Tower Securities, the 2019-1C Tower Securities and the 2019-1R Tower