Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
The information set forth in Item 2.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01.
Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
On September 15, 2021, Broadstone Net Lease, LLC (the “Issuer”), the operating partnership of Broadstone Net Lease, Inc. (the “Company”), closed an underwritten public offering of $375 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.600% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “Notes”).
The Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed (the “Guarantee”) by the Company (in such capacity, the “Guarantor”). The terms of the Notes are governed by an indenture, dated as of September 15, 2021 (the “Base Indenture”), by and among the Issuer, the Guarantor and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by a first supplemental indenture, dated as of September 15, 2021 (the “First Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), by and among the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee. The Indenture contains various restrictive covenants, including requirements to maintain a certain percentage of total unencumbered assets by the Company. Copies of the Base Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture, including the form of Notes and the Guarantee, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference, are attached as Exhibits 4.1 and 4.2, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
Under certain circumstances, the Indenture will require certain of the Company’s subsidiaries (other than the OP) to guarantee the Notes in the future if, and for so long as, such subsidiary, directly or indirectly, guarantees or otherwise becomes obligated in respect of the Issuer’s revolving credit facility, senior unsecured notes and unsecured term loans.
The purchase price paid by the underwriters for the Notes was 99.166% of the principal amount thereof. The Notes are the Issuer’s senior unsecured obligations and rank equally in right of payment with all of the Issuer’s other existing and future senior unsecured indebtedness. However, the Notes are effectively subordinated in right of payment to: (i) all of the Issuer’s existing and future mortgage indebtedness and other secured indebtedness (to the extent of the value of the collateral securing such indebtedness); (ii) all existing and future indebtedness and other liabilities, whether secured or unsecured, of the Issuer’s subsidiaries that do not guarantee the Notes and of any entity the Issuer accounts for using the equity method of accounting; and (iii) all preferred equity not owned by the Issuer, if any, in any of the Issuer’s subsidiaries that do not guarantee the Notes and in any entity the Issuer accounts for using the equity method of accounting. The Notes bear interest at 2.600% per annum. Interest is payable on March 15 and September 15 of each year, beginning March 15, 2022, until the maturity date of September 15, 2031.
The Notes will be redeemable in whole at any time or in part from time to time, at the Issuer’s option, at a redemption price equal to the sum of:
| | • | | 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, up to, but not including, the redemption date; and |
| | • | | a make-whole premium calculated in accordance with the Indenture. |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any of the Notes are redeemed on or after June 15, 2031 (three months prior to the maturity date of the Notes), the redemption price will not include a make-whole premium.
Certain events are considered events of default, which may result in the accelerated maturity of the Notes, including:
| | • | | default for 30 days in the payment of any installment of interest under the Notes; |
| | • | | default in the payment of the principal amount or any other portion of the redemption price due with respect to the Notes, when the same becomes due and payable; |
| | • | | failure by the Issuer or the Guarantor to comply with any of the Issuer’s or the Guarantor’s respective other agreements in the Notes, the Guarantee or the Indenture with respect to the Notes upon receipt by the Issuer of notice of such default by the Trustee or by holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding and the Issuer’s failure to cure (or obtain a waiver of) such default within 60 days after the Issuer receives such notice; |
| | • | | failure to pay any Debt (as defined in the Indenture) (other than Non-Recourse Debt (as defined in the Indenture)) for monies borrowed by the Issuer, the Company or any of their respective Significant Subsidiaries (as defined in the |
