Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On December 14, 2021 (the “Closing Date”), Installed Building Products, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), as borrower, entered into a new term loan credit agreement (the “Term Loan Agreement”) with the lenders from time to time party thereto, Royal Bank of Canada as term administrative agent and term collateral agent and RBC Capital Markets, BofA Securities, Inc. and Goldman Sachs Bank USA as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners and Loop Capital Markets LLC, U.S. Bank National Association, KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. and PNC Capital Markets LLC as co-managers. The Term Loan Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, provides for a new seven-year $500,000,000 term loan facility (the “Term Loan”).
On the Closing Date, Royal Bank of Canada, as collateral agent under the Term Loan Agreement, entered into a Lien Sharing and Priority Confirmation Joinder (the “Joinder Agreement”) to a ABL/Term Loan Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of April 13, 2017 (as amended by a First Amendment ABL/Term Loan Intercreditor Agreement dated as of June 19, 2018, by a Second Amendment ABL/Term Loan Intercreditor Agreement dated as of December 17, 2019 and a Third Amendment ABL/Term Loan Intercreditor Agreement dated as of the Closing Date (the “Third Intercreditor Amendment”) (the “Intercreditor Agreement”), among the Company, the subsidiaries of the Company named therein, Bank of America, N.A., as ABL agent, and Royal Bank of Canada, as collateral agent, under the Term Loan Agreement. The Intercreditor Agreement sets forth the relative priorities of each agent’s respective security interests and other matters relating to the administration of those respective security interests.
In connection with the Term Loan Agreement and Third Intercreditor Amendment, the Company also entered into on the Closing Date a Consent and Amendment No. 2 to Credit Agreement (“Amendment No. 2”) with respect to the Credit Agreement dated as of September 26, 2019 (the “ABL Credit Agreement”) among the Company, the financial institutions party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent. Amendment No. 2 provides for the consent of the lenders to the Third Intercreditor Amendment, as required by the ABL Credit Agreement, and conforming updates to definitional provisions in the ABL Credit Agreement.
Proceeds from the Term Loan were used to refinance and repay in full all amounts outstanding under the Amended and Restated Term Loan Agreement, dated as of December 17, 2019 (the “2019 Term Loan Agreement”), by and among the Company, the lenders party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, and to discharge and release all security and guarantees in respect thereof. The Company also intends to use the Term Loan pay for certain fees and expenses associated with the closing of the Term Loan and for general corporate purposes, including acquisitions and other growth initiatives.
Maturity, Amortization and Prepayment
The Term Loan amortizes in quarterly principal payments of $1,250,000 starting on March 31, 2022, with any remaining unpaid balances due on December 14, 2028, which is the maturity date.
Subject to certain exceptions, the Term Loan will be subject to mandatory pre-payments equal to (i) 100% of the net cash proceeds from issuances or incurrence of debt by the Company or any of its restricted subsidiaries (other than with respect to certain permitted indebtedness (excluding any refinancing indebtedness); (ii) 100% (with step-downs to 50% and 0% based on achievement of specified net leverage ratios) of the net cash proceeds from certain sales or dispositions of assets by the Company or any of its restricted subsidiaries in excess of a certain amount and subject to reinvestment provisions and certain other exceptions; and (iii) 50% (with step-downs to 25% and 0% based upon achievement of specified net leverage ratios) of excess cash flow of the Company and its restricted subsidiaries in excess of $15,000,000, subject to certain exceptions and limitations.
Security and Guarantees
Subject to certain exceptions, all of the obligations under the Term Loan will be guaranteed by all of the existing and future restricted subsidiaries of the Company (the “Guarantors”).
All obligations under the Term Loan and the guarantees of those obligations, will be secured by substantially all of the assets of the Company and the Guarantors subject to certain exceptions and permitted liens, including, a first-priority security interest in such assets that constitute Term Loan First Lien Collateral and a second-priority security interest in such assets that constitute ABL First Lien Collateral. “ABL First Lien Collateral” includes, subject to certain exceptions, substantially all presently owned and after-acquired accounts, inventory, rights of an unpaid vendor