Item 1.01 | Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement |
On February 28, 2025, HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. (the “Company”) and each of B. Riley Securities, Inc. (“B. Riley”), Barclays Capital Inc. (“Barclays”), BofA Securities, Inc. (“BofA”), Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (“Citigroup”), Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc. (“Credit Agricole”), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (“GS”), Jefferies LLC (“Jefferies”), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (“JPMorgan”), KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. (“KeyBanc”), Mizuho Securities USA LLC (“Mizuho”), Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), Nomura Securities International, Inc. (“Nomura”), RBC Capital Markets, LLC (“RBC”), Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated (“Baird”) and Truist Securities, Inc. (“Truist”) (each, individually, an “Agent” and collectively, the “Agents”) entered into Amendment No. 7 to the At Market Issuance Sales Agreement (the “Seventh Amendment”), pursuant to which the Company may sell through the Agents either as agents or principals, from time to time, shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“common stock”), having an aggregate offering price of up to $500,000,000, (the “ATM Program”).
The Seventh Amendment amends that certain At Market Issuance Sales Agreement, entered into by the Company and certain banks as sales agents on May 13, 2020 (the “Original Agreement”), as amended on February 26, 2021 (the “First Amendment”), March 1, 2022 (the “Second Amendment”), February 22, 2023 (the “Third Amendment”), May 10, 2023 (the “Fourth Amendment”), September 5, 2023 (the “Fifth Amendment”), and July 3, 2024 (the “Sixth Amendment” and the Original Agreement as amended by the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Third Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Sixth Amendment and the Seventh Amendment, the “Sales Agreement”) and was entered into in order to add Baird, Citigroup, Credit Agricole, Mizuho and RBC as Agents and to refresh the aggregate offering price of shares of common stock the Company may sell under the ATM Program to $500,000,000.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Sales Agreement, the Agents will use their commercially reasonable efforts to sell, on the Company’s behalf, the shares of common stock offered by the Company under the Sales Agreement. Sales of common stock, if any, made under the Sales Agreement may be made in sales deemed to be “at-the-market offerings” as defined in Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), including by sales made directly on or through the New York Stock Exchange or another market for the common stock, sales made to or through a market maker other than on an exchange or otherwise, in negotiated transactions, which may include block trades, at market prices prevailing at the time of sale or at negotiated prices, or as otherwise agreed with the applicable Agent.
Under the terms of the Sales Agreement, the Company may also sell shares of common stock to an Agent as principal for its own account at a price agreed upon at the time of such sale. If the Company sells shares of common stock to an Agent as principal, the Company will enter into a separate terms agreement with the Agent, and the Company will describe such agreement in a separate prospectus supplement or pricing supplement. Actual sales will depend on a variety of factors to be determined by the Company from time to time.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, which may include the repayment of outstanding borrowings or the acquisition of the Company’s target assets in accordance with the Company’s investment strategy. The Sales Agreement provides that the applicable Agent will be entitled to compensation for its services of an amount that is up to, but may be less than, 2.0% of the gross sales price of all shares of common stock sold through it as Agent under the Sales Agreement. The Company has no obligation to sell any shares of common stock under the Sales Agreement, and may at any time suspend solicitation and offers under the Sales Agreement.
Shares of common stock sold under the ATM Program will be issued pursuant to the Company’s automatic shelf registration statement, as defined under Rule 405 under the Securities Act, on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-285461) (the “Registration Statement”). The Company filed a prospectus supplement (the “Prospectus Supplement”), dated February 28, 2025, with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the offer and sale of shares of common stock under the ATM Program.
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