ITEM 8.01 Other Events
Results of Tender Offer
On October 15, 2020, Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate Limited (“KWE”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. (the “Company” or “we”), announced the results of the previously announced cash tender offer (the “Tender Offer”) for up to £325.0 million in aggregate nominal amount of its £500.0 million outstanding sterling-denominated 3.95% bonds due 2022 (the “Bonds”). The Tender Offer expired at 4:00 p.m., London time, on October 14, 2020 (the “Expiration Deadline”). As of the Expiration Deadline, £130,190,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the Bonds, or 26.04% of the £500.0 million aggregate nominal amount of the Bonds outstanding prior to the Tender Offer, had been validly tendered for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer. KWE accepted for purchase all of the Bonds validly tendered pursuant to the Tender Offer.
As previously announced, the purchase price for the Bonds validly tendered and accepted for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer was a price equal to 101% of the nominal amount of the relevant Bonds, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, October 22, 2020 (the anticipated settlement date for the Tender Offer). The total Tender Offer consideration of £133.1 million, including accrued and unpaid interest, will be funded from current cash on KWE’s balance sheet and proceeds from two of the four previously announced separate new secured financings over certain properties located in the United Kingdom and Ireland (the “Secured Financing”). KWE will receive a total of approximately £100.5 million of proceeds from the two loans and may, at its sole discretion but no later than November 30, 2020, enter into the additional two loans. Each of the loans under the Secured Financing has or will have a 3 year-term with two 1-year extension options at a rate of GBP LIBOR / EURIBOR, as applicable, plus 3%. There can be no assurance that KWE will incur indebtedness under one or both of the remaining Secured Financings.
This Current Report on Form 8-K is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation to buy any of the Bonds nor is it a solicitation for acceptance of the Tender Offer.
A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is not incorporated in this Item 8.01 by this reference.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This Current Report on Form 8-K contains certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). These forward-looking statements are necessarily estimates reflecting the judgment of our senior management based on our current estimates, expectations, forecasts and projections and include comments that express our current opinions about trends and factors that may impact future operating results. Disclosures that use words such as “believe,” “may,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “could,” “plan,” “expect,” “project” or the negative of these, as well as similar expressions, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve significant known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company’s actual results in future periods to differ materially from those projected or contemplated in the forward-looking statements as a result of, but not limited to, the following factors: timing and consummation of the Tender Offer and risks and uncertainties related to market conditions and satisfaction of customary closing conditions related to the Tender Offer.
Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, rely on a number of assumptions concerning future events, many of which are outside of our control, and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results, performance or achievement, or industry results to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements, expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties may include the risks and uncertainties described elsewhere in this report and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including the Item 1A. “Risk Factors” section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, as supplemented by the risk factors disclosed in Item 1A. of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020. Any such forward-looking statements, whether made in this report or elsewhere, should be considered in the context of the various disclosures made by us about our businesses including, without limitation, the risk factors discussed in our filings with the SEC. Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the SEC, we do not have any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in assumptions, or otherwise.