Financing Matters
N&B Term Loan Credit Agreement
As previously disclosed, on January 17, 2020, N&B entered into a term loan credit agreement (as amended by the N&B Term Loan Amendment (as defined below), the “N&B Term Loan Credit Agreement”), with Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. as administrative agent, establishing a term loan facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $1.25 billion (the “N&B Term Loan Facility”) in order to finance the Special Cash Payment and to pay related transaction fees and expenses.
On August 25, 2020, N&B entered into Amendment No. 1 to Credit Agreement (the “N&B Term Loan Amendment”), which provided, among other things, that after the Closing Date, IFF’s maximum permitted ratio of Net Debt to Consolidated EBITDA shall be 4.75 to 1.0, stepping down to 3.50 to 1.0 over time (with a step-up following the consummation of certain qualified acquisitions).
On the Closing Date, N&B borrowed $1.25 billion under the N&B Term Loan Credit Agreement to fund a portion of the Special Cash Payment. On the Closing Date, IFF also executed documentation to provide a guarantee of N&B’s obligations under the N&B Term Loan Credit Agreement.
The descriptions of the N&B Term Loan Credit Agreement and N&B Term Loan Amendment contained in this Item 1.01 do not purport to be complete and are subject to, and qualified in their entirety by, the full text of the N&B Term Loan Credit Agreement and N&B Term Loan Amendment filed as Exhibits 10.3 and 10.4, respectively, hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
IFF Credit Agreement Guarantees
As previously disclosed, on August 25, 2020, IFF and certain of its subsidiaries entered into the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement”), which amended and restated the Credit Agreement, dated as of November 9, 2011, which had been previously amended and restated as of December 2, 2016, and further amended as of May 21, 2018, June 6, 2018, July 13, 2018 and January 17, 2020 among IFF, certain of its subsidiaries, the banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders party thereto, and Citibank, N.A. as administrative agent.
The Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement provided for the incurrence of an additional $1.0 billion of revolving commitments (the “Revolver Increase”), upon the consummation of and in connection with the Merger. In addition, the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement requires N&B to guarantee the obligations under the Revolving Credit Agreement. On the Closing Date, the Revolver Increase became effective, and N&B executed documentation to provide the required guarantee pursuant to the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement.
As previously disclosed, IFF is also a borrower under the Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of June 6, 2018, and amended as of July 13, 2018, as of January 17, 2020, and as of August 25, 2020, among IFF, the banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders party thereto, and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. as administrative agent (the “IFF Term Loan Agreement”) and the Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of May 15, 2020, and amended as of August 25, 2020, among IFF, the lenders party thereto and China Construction Bank Corporation, New York Branch, as administrative agent (the “CCB Term Loan Agreement”).
Each of the IFF Term Loan Agreement and the CCB Term Loan Agreement requires N&B to guarantee IFF’s obligations thereunder upon the closing of the Transactions. On the Closing Date, N&B executed documentation to provide the required guarantee pursuant to the IFF Term Loan Agreement and the CCB Term Loan Agreement.
Guarantees of N&B Notes
As previously disclosed, in connection with the Merger, on September 9, 2020, N&B announced the pricing of $6.25 billion of senior unsecured notes, comprised of the following tranches (collectively, the “Notes”): $300.0 million aggregate principal amount of 0.697% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “2022 Notes”); $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 1.230% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “2025 Notes”); $1.2 billion aggregate principal amount of 1.832% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “2027 Notes”); $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.300% Senior Notes due