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Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. Announces $500 Million 4.500% Senior Notes Offering
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (NYS: RS) announced today that it has entered into an underwriting agreement for the sale of $500 million principal amount of its 4.500% Senior Notes due 2023 at an issue price of 99.585%. The notes will be guaranteed by Reliance’s subsidiaries that guarantee its credit agreement and its senior notes due 2016 and 2036. Reliance intends to use the net proceeds to finance a portion of its pending acquisition of Metals USA Holdings Corp. If Reliance does not consummate its acquisition of Metals USA on or prior to December 15, 2013, the merger agreement with Metals USA is terminated at any time prior thereto or Reliance determines in its reasonable judgment that the acquisition will not occur, Reliance will be required to redeem all of the notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of their aggregate principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest. The offering is expected to close on April 12, 2013.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC acted as joint book-running managers of the offering.
The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus supplement and an effective registration statement (including a prospectus), which have been filed with the SEC. A copy of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus for the offering may be obtained by contacting J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Attention: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, by phone at 1-212-834-4533, or by fax at 1-212-834-6081; or Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Attention: Prospectus Department, 222 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, New York 10038, by email at dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com, or by phone at 1-800-294-1322; or Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Attention: Capital Markets Client Support, 1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd., NC0675, Charlotte, North Carolina 28262, by email at cmclientsupport@wellsfargo.com, or by phone at 1-800-326-5897. Alternatively, you may get these documents for free by visiting the SEC‘s website at www.sec.gov. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities described herein, and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any state or other jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
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