Item 1.01 | Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
Amendment to Credit Agreement
On May 4, 2020, Delphi Technologies PLC, a public limited company incorporated under the Laws of the Bailiwick of Jersey (the “Company”), entered into an Amendment No. 2 (the “Second Amendment”) to its Credit Agreement, dated as of September 7, 2017 as amended by a First Amendment dated February 10, 2020, among the Company, the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Delphi Powertrain Corporation, the lenders party thereto, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent (the “Credit Agreement”). The Credit Agreement is described in the Company’s Annual Report on Form10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 that was filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on February 13, 2020.
The Second Amendment amends the Credit Agreement to, among other things: (i) adjust the applicable interest rate margins for the Term Loan A Facility so that the applicable interest rate margins will increase or decrease from time to time between 2.00% and 2.75% per annum (for LIBOR loans) and between 1.00% and 1.75% per annum (for ABR Loans), in each case based upon changes to the Company’s corporate credit ratings; (ii) adjust the applicable interest rate margins for the Revolving Credit Facility so that the applicable interest rate margins will increase or decrease from time to time between 1.80% and 2.25% per annum (for LIBOR loans) and between 0.80% and 1.25% per annum (for ABR loans), in each case based upon changes to the Company’s corporate credit ratings; (iii) provide that in lieu of the Company maintaining a consolidated net leverage ratio, the Company must maintain a consolidated secured leverage ratio as of the last day of any fiscal quarter from March 31, 2020 through December 31, 2021 of not greater than 4.25 to 1.00 stepping down by 0.5 every quarter starting the quarter ending June 30, 2021; (iv) provide that the Company must maintain a consolidated net leverage ratio of 4.0 to 1.00 as of the last day of any fiscal quarter ending after December 31, 2021; and (v) include or revise certain definitions and certain customary representation, warranties and acknowledgments.
The foregoing description of the Second Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Second Amendment, a copy of which will be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form10-Q for the three months ending June 30, 2020.
Amendment and Consent Agreement
As previously disclosed, the Company, entered into a Transaction Agreement, dated January 28, 2020 (the “Transaction Agreement”), by and between the Company and BorgWarner Inc., a Delaware corporation (“BorgWarner”), pursuant to which BorgWarner, or one of its subsidiaries, will acquire the Company in anall-stock transaction (the “Transaction”). Also as previously disclosed, in response to the Company’s draw down on its full $500 million revolving credit facility on March 30, 2020 (the “Revolver Draw”), BorgWarner notified the Company of its assertion that the Company materially breached the Transaction Agreement as a result of effecting the Revolver Draw without BorgWarner’s prior written consent and also asserted that, if such alleged breach was not cured within 30 days of the Revolver Draw, BorgWarner would have the right to terminate the Transaction Agreement. The Company disputed BorgWarner’s breach assertion on the basis that, among other things, BorgWarner unreasonably withheld and conditioned its consent to the Revolver Draw, in material breach of the Transaction Agreement.
On May 6, 2020, the Company and BorgWarner resolved their breach dispute by entering into an Amendment and Consent Agreement (the “Amendment and Consent Agreement”) pursuant to which, among other things, BorgWarner consented to the Revolver Draw and certain other matters, subject to the terms and conditions contained in the Amendment and Consent Agreement. The Amendment and Consent Agreement also amends the Transaction Agreement to (a) reduce the exchange ratio at which each Company ordinary share will be exchanged from 0.4534 shares of BorgWarner common stock to 0.4307 shares of BorgWarner common stock and (b) include the following additional conditions to BorgWarner’s obligations to close the Transaction: (i) the Company has satisfied a specifiednet-debt-to-adjusted EBITDA ratio, and (ii) as of 11:59 p.m. (New York time) on the date immediately prior to the closing of the Transaction, the Company’s outstanding revolver borrowings do not exceed $225 million and, net of cash balances, the revolver borrowings do not exceed $115 million. Other than as set forth in the Amendment and Consent Agreement, no additional changes or waivers with respect to the Transaction Agreement and the obligations thereunder were made, granted or consented to by the Company and BorgWarner and the Transaction Agreement remains in full force and effect in all respects. The Transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2020.
The foregoing description of the Amendment and Consent Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Amendment and Consent Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
On May 6, 2020, the Company and BorgWarner issued a joint press release announcing the execution of the Amendment and Consent Agreement. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
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