Exhibit 99.2
News Release
Carvana Co. Announces Private Exchange Offers Relating to Existing Notes
PHOENIX - March 22, 2023 - Carvana Co. (NYSE: CVNA) (“Carvana” or the “Company”), the leading e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars, announced today that it is offering noteholders the option to exchange their unsecured notes at a premium to current trading prices and receive new secured notes that would provide exchanging noteholders with collateral while reducing Carvana’s cash interest expense and maintaining significant flexibility for the Company.
Specifically, Carvana announced that it has commenced exchange offers (the “Exchange Offers”) to exchange its outstanding existing notes listed below (the “Existing Notes”) for up to an aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000,000 (subject to increase or decrease by the Company, the “Maximum Amount”) of new 9.0%/12.0% Cash/PIK Toggle Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2028 (the “New Secured Notes”) issued by the Company, pursuant to the terms and conditions described in an Exchange Offer Memorandum, dated March 22, 2023 (the “Exchange Offer Memorandum”), including a condition that a minimum of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Existing Notes be validly tendered and not withdrawn in the Exchange Offers (the “Minimum Participation Condition”).
The New Secured Notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior basis, jointly and severally, by Carvana Group, LLC, Carvana, LLC, Carvana Co. Sub LLC, Carvana Operations HC LLC and Carvana FAC, LLC (collectively, the “Guarantors”). With the exception of Carvana FAC, LLC (“FinCo”), all of the Guarantors are the same entities that guarantee the Existing Notes. FinCo will become a guarantor under the Existing Notes concurrently with the consummation of the Exchange Offers.
Prior to the commencement of the Exchange Offers, the Company designated ADESA US Auction, LLC (“ADESA US”) as an unrestricted subsidiary under the indentures governing the Existing Notes. As a result, ADESA US and all of the subsidiaries of ADESA US, which comprise the Company’s ADESA U.S. Auction business (the “ADESA Subsidiaries”) were released from their guarantees of the Existing Notes. None of the ADESA Subsidiaries will guarantee the New Secured Notes. The ADESA Subsidiaries will no longer be subject to the restrictive covenants in the indentures governing the Existing Notes, and will not be subject to the restrictive covenants in the indenture that will govern the New Secured Notes. Prior to the completion of the Exchange Offers, the Company also expects to complete a series of internal corporate transactions permitted under its existing debt arrangements, including contributing the assets of the Carvana finance platform, which consists of certain intellectual property assets, to consolidate its financing business at FinCo.
The New Secured Notes and the guarantees will be secured by second-priority liens on certain assets and property owned by Carvana, LLC to which the Ally Parties (as defined herein) were granted a first-priority perfected security interest (such property constituting the “Ally Collateral”) (such assets and property securing the New Secured Notes and guarantees, together with the assets and property owned by any other person that we elect, in our sole discretion, to become a grantor to secure our senior secured obligations, the “Collateral”), which Collateral consists of any automobile, van, or light duty truck that is not manufactured for a particular commercial purpose, accounts and general intangibles together with any and all accessions, additions, attachments, replacements, substitutions, returns, profits and proceeds in whatever form or type, subject to certain additional exclusions and permitted liens as described in the Exchange Offer Memorandum, including that certain assets that constitute Ally Collateral will not constitute Collateral for the New Secured Notes, such as chattel paper, deposit accounts and the assets and property of FinCo. The New Secured Notes and guarantees will be effectively senior to all existing and future unsecured indebtedness and junior lien indebtedness of Carvana, LLC and any additional grantors that may provide collateral in the future to the extent of the value of the Collateral and any future collateral. The New Secured Notes and related guarantees will be effectively subordinated to indebtedness that is secured by assets that do not secure the New Secured Notes or have priority liens on the Collateral, including indebtedness under our existing and future vehicle inventory financing and security agreements with Ally Bank (Ally Capital in Hawaii, Mississippi, Montana and New Jersey) and Ally Financial Inc. (collectively, the “Ally Parties” and such existing and future vehicle inventory financing and security agreements, collectively, the “Floor Plan Facility”), to the extent of the value of the liens on such Collateral. The New Secured Notes and the guarantees will rank equally in right of payment with all of the Company’s and the Guarantors’ existing and future senior indebtedness, including indebtedness under the Floor Plan Facility, and senior in right of payment to any future indebtedness that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the New Secured Notes; provided, however, that to the extent a “Default” (as defined in the Floor Plan Facility) under the Floor Plan Facility has occurred and is continuing or if a “Default” has occurred and is continuing immediately before or after the making of any payment on the New Secured Notes or would be expected to result therefrom and any of the Ally Parties have provided written notice of such “Default” to the Collateral Agent, such payments on the New Secured Notes (including payments of principal, premium, interest and/or fees) with Ally Collateral (or the proceeds thereof) will be prohibited (or subject to turnover if the Ally Parties provide notice of a “Default” after such payment is made); provided, further, that payments of principal, premium, interest and fees on the New Secured Notes will be able to be made using cash or other assets that are not pledged to the Ally Parties as Ally Collateral.