Alternate Reduces Debt via roughly $312 million
DALLAS, March 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Jacobs (NYSE:J) these days introduced that it has effectively exited its fairness stake in Amentum Holdings, Inc. (“Amentum”) via exchanging 19,464,174 stocks of usual secure of Amentum held via its wholly-owned subsidiary, Jacobs Engineering Crew Inc. (“JEG”), for roughly £240 million mixture major quantity of JEG time period loans. The Amentum usual secure was once offered via BofA Securities, Inc., as promoting shareholder, to buyers in a registered people providing that closed on March 13, 2025. Nearest giving impact to the transaction and the depart of the exchanged JEG time period loans, Jacobs’ mixture exceptional borrowings lowered via roughly £240 million, or the similar of roughly $312 million.1
Jacobs’ Chair and CEO Bob Pragada commented, “We are pleased to have successfully completed this equity for debt exchange, achieving value for our shareholders through further debt reduction, within our previously announced timeline. Exiting our position in Amentum is another step in our business transformation strategy resulting in an industry leading science-based consulting and advisory company delivering resilient, digitally enabled infrastructure solutions having a positive impact on the world.”
An alternative 9,732,087 stocks of Amentum usual secure stay in escrow, topic to ultimate decision of sure efficiency milestones in reference to a post-closing adjustment to the merger attention equipped within the transaction paperwork in terms of the combo of Jacobs’ Crucial Project Answers and Cyber & Insigt companies with Amentum Guardian Holdings LLC on September 27, 2024. As in the past disclosed, Jacobs intends to distribute any alternative stocks of Amentum usual secure to which it turns into entitled on a professional rata foundation to Jacobs’ shareholders as of a document future that will probably be all set as soon as the general decision is reached.
BofA Securities, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas and TD Cowen acted as joint book-running managers within the registered people providing of Amentum usual secure.
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1 Calculated in keeping with $1.2990 in line with £1.
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