ITEM 1.01 — ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT
On March 20, 2024, Crown Castle Inc. (“Company”) entered into sales agreements (“Sales Agreements”) with each of BofA Securities, Inc., Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., BTIG, LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Jefferies LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, MUFG Securities Americas Inc., RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., SG Americas Securities, LLC, TD Securities (USA) LLC and Truist Securities, Inc. (each, a “Sales Agent” and collectively, “Sales Agents”), pursuant to which the Company may issue and sell from time to time shares (“Shares”) of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), having an aggregate gross sales price of up to $750,000,000.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Sales Agreements, the Sales Agents will use their commercially reasonable efforts to sell, on the Company’s behalf, the Shares that may be offered by the Company from time to time under the Sales Agreements. The sales, if any, of the Shares made under the Sales Agreements will be made by means of ordinary brokers’ transactions on the New York Stock Exchange or otherwise at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to prevailing market prices or, subject to specific instructions of the Company, at negotiated prices. Under the terms of the Sales Agreements, the Company may also sell Shares to any Sales Agent as principal for its own account. If the Company sells Shares to any Sales Agent as principal, it will enter into a separate terms agreement setting forth the terms of such transaction with the applicable Sales Agent. Actual sales will depend on a variety of factors to be determined by the Company from time to time.
The Shares will be sold pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-277989). The above description of the Sales Agreements does not purport to be a complete statement of the parties’ rights and obligations under the Sales Agreements and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the terms of the Form of Sales Agreement, filed as Exhibit 1.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
Pursuant to separate sales agreements between the Company and each of Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Commerz Markets LLC, Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Fifth Third Securities, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, MUFG Securities Americas Inc., RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., SG Americas Securities, LLC, SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., TD Securities (USA) LLC, Truist Securities, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as sales agents, each dated as of March 19, 2021, the Company contemplated sales of shares of Common Stock by means of a prospectus supplement dated March 19, 2021 to the Company’s prior shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-254500) (“Prior Offering”). The Prior Offering has been terminated, with no shares of the Company’s Common Stock having been sold under the Prior Offering.
ITEM 9.01 — FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS
(d) Exhibits
Exhibit Index
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Exhibit
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| 1.1 | | Form of Sales Agreement, dated March 20, 2024, between the Company and each of BofA Securities, Inc., Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., BTIG, LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Jefferies LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, MUFG Securities Americas Inc., RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., SG Americas Securities, LLC, TD Securities (USA) LLC and Truist Securities, Inc. |
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| 5.1 | | Opinion of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP relating to the Common Stock. |
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| 8.1 | | Opinion of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP as to certain tax matters relating to the Common Stock. |
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| 8.2 | | Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP as to certain tax matters relating to the Common Stock. |
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| 23.1 | | Consent of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1). |
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| 23.2 | | Consent of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (included in Exhibit 8.1). |
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| 23.3 | | Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (included in Exhibit 8.2). |
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| 104 | | Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document |
