Exhibit 10.3
Execution Version
EXCHANGE AGREEMENT
This EXCHANGE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is entered into on March 10, 2022, by and between Post Holdings, Inc., a Missouri corporation (“Post”), and each of the financial institutions party hereto and identified on Schedule I hereto (the “Funding Incremental Term Loan Lenders”).
WHEREAS, pursuant to the separation (the “Separation”) of BellRing Brands, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“BellRing”), from Post, the terms of which are set forth in that certain Transaction Agreement and Plan of Merger (as it may be amended from time to time, the “Transaction Agreement”), dated as of October 26, 2021, among Post, BellRing, BellRing Distribution, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“SpinCo”) and BellRing Merger Sub Corporation, a Delaware corporation, in partial consideration for the transfer by Post to SpinCo of (i) Post’s membership units of BellRing Brands, LLC, (ii) the share of Class B common stock, par value $0.01 per share of BellRing held by Post and (iii) cash, SpinCo will issue to Post $840,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 7.00% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “SpinCo Notes”) under an indenture (the “Indenture”), to be dated the date hereof, among SpinCo and Computershare Trust Company N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”);
WHEREAS, Post, as borrower, has entered into that certain Joinder Agreement No. 1, dated as of March 8, 2022 (as it may be amended from time to time, the “Incremental Term Loan Joinder”), with the Funding Incremental Term Loan Lenders, as lenders, Barclays Bank PLC, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Credit Agreement Administrative Agent”) and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as sub-administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Incremental Administrative Agent” and, together with the Credit Agreement Administrative Agent, the “Administrative Agents”)), pursuant to which the Funding Incremental Term Loan Lenders made available and Post borrowed incremental term loans under the Credit Agreement (as defined in the Incremental Term Loan Joinder) in an aggregate principal amount of $840,000,000 (the “Series A Incremental Term Loans”), which Post intends to use to redeem some or all of its 5.750% Senior Notes due 2027;
WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 5 of the Incremental Term Loan Joinder, Post desires to prepay all of the outstanding Series A Incremental Term Loans and all accrued and unpaid interest and expenses owed thereunder through a combination of (i) with respect to the principal amount owed thereunder, the assignment and transfer of all of the SpinCo Notes by Post to the Funding Incremental Term Loan Lenders and (ii) with respect to accrued and unpaid interest and expenses owed thereunder, cash on hand; and each of the Funding Incremental Term Loan Lenders, as lenders under the Credit Agreement, desires to accept such SpinCo Notes and cash as prepayment of all of the Series A Incremental Term Loans;
WHEREAS, SpinCo, as issuer of the SpinCo Notes, and the Funding Incremental Term Loan Lenders (or their respective designees), as selling noteholders, have entered into a Purchase Agreement, dated March 1, 2022 (as it may be amended from time to time, the “Purchase Agreement”) with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (“J.P. Morgan”) as representative of the several initial purchasers specified in such Purchase Agreement (together, the “Initial Purchasers”), in connection with the sale of the SpinCo Notes pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), pursuant to which the Initial