Exhibit 99.1
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MSCI Completes Private Offering of $500 Million
5.375% Senior Notes Due 2027
New York – May 18, 2018 – MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI) (“MSCI”), a leading provider of indexes and portfolio construction and risk management tools and services for global investors, announced today that it has successfully completed its private offering of $500.0 million aggregate amount of its 5.375% senior notes (the “notes”) due 2027 (the “Offering”). The notes will mature on May 15, 2027.
MSCI intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering for general corporate purposes, including, without limitation, buybacks of its common stock and potential acquisitions.
MSCI also announced that it entered into Amendment No. 2 (the “Amendment”) to its Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2014 (as amended, the “Revolving Credit Facility”), to, among other things, (i) increase aggregate commitments available to be borrowed by $30.0 million, to an aggregate of $250.0 million of availability thereunder, (ii) extend the term to May 2023 and (iii) decrease the applicable rate and applicable fee rate for loans and commitments under the Revolving Credit Facility.
On an adjusted basis, after giving effect to the Offering and the Amendment, MSCI expects interest expense, including the amortization of financing fees, to be approximately $133.0 million for the year ending December 31, 2018 and approximately $143.5 million on an annualized basis thereafter (assuming no additional debt is incurred, including borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility, and no adjustment to the applicable rate under the Revolving Credit Facility).
The notes were offered only to (i) persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and (ii) certainnon-U.S. persons outside the United States pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act. The notes have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and therefore may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the notes, nor shall it constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful.
About MSCI
For more than 45 years, MSCI’s research-based indexes and analytics have helped the world’s leading investors build and manage better portfolios. Clients rely on our offerings for deeper insights into the drivers of performance and risk in their portfolios, broad asset class coverage and innovative research.
Our line of products and services includes indexes, analytical models, data, real estate benchmarks and ESG research.
MSCI serves 99 of the top 100 largest money managers, according to the most recent P&I ranking.
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MSCI Inc. Contact
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Andrew Wiechmann | andrew.wiechmann@msci.com | + 1 212 804 3986 | ||
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Samuel Wang | samuel.wang@msci.com | + 1 212 804 5244 | ||
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including without limitation, our interest expense guidance. These forward-looking statements relate to future events or to future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by the use of words such as “may,” “could,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “seek,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential” or “continue,” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that are, in some cases, beyond our control and that could materially affect our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements.
Other factors that could materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements can be found in MSCI’s Annual Report on Form10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on February 26, 2018 and in quarterly reports on Form10-Q and current reports on Form8-K filed or furnished with the SEC. If any of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or if our underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect, actual results may vary significantly from what MSCI projected. Any forward-looking statement in this press release reflects MSCI’s current views with respect to future events and is subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to MSCI’s operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. MSCI assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law.
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