| Item 1.01. | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
Note Purchase Agreement
On May 7, 2021, UGI Utilities, Inc. (“UGI Utilities”), a wholly owned subsidiary of UGI Corporation (the “Company”), entered into a Note Purchase Agreement (the “Note Purchase Agreement”) with certain persons (the “Note Purchasers”) relating to the private placement of $100 million aggregate principal amount of 1.59% Senior Notes, Series A, with a maturity date of June 15, 2026 (the “Series A Notes”) and $75 million aggregate principal amount of 1.64% Senior Notes, Series B, with a maturity date of September 15, 2026 (the “Series B Notes,” and together with the Series A Notes, the “Notes”). The private placement of the Notes is exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Funding of the Series A Notes is expected on or before June 15, 2021, and funding of the Series B Notes is expected on or before September 15, 2021. Interest payments on the Series A Notes will be payable semiannually on December 15th and June 15th of each year. Interest payments on the Series B Notes will be payable semiannually on March 15th and September 15th of each year. The Notes will be unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of UGI Utilities, ranking pari passu in all respects with UGI Utilities’ existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness. If any subsidiary guarantees or otherwise becomes liable for UGI Utilities’ obligations under a primary credit facility, the subsidiary will provide a guaranty of payment of the Notes and compliance with the Note Purchase Agreement. Proceeds from the Notes will be used primarily to refinance indebtedness and for general corporate purposes. The pricing of the Notes occurred on April 13, 2021.
The Note Purchase Agreement includes the usual and customary covenants for note purchase agreements of this type, including, among others, covenants relating to the maintenance of existence, payment of taxes when due, compliance with laws, maintenance of properties in good repair, compliance with the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury, maintenance of insurance, maintenance of books and records, pari passu ranking, merger and consolidation, line of business, antiterrorism sanctions, and change in control. The Note Purchase Agreement also contains restrictive and financial covenants, specifying, among other things, that the sale of assets is limited to 15% of consolidated total assets as of the end of any period of twelve consecutive months subject to safe harbors for debt prepayment or property reinvestments and specified exclusions, that indebtedness (excluding certain indebtedness of subsidiaries) plus basket liens will not at any time exceed 10% of consolidated total assets, and that the ratio of total debt to total capitalization will not at any time exceed 0.65 to 1.00.
The Note Purchase Agreement also contains customary events of default, including, without limitation, failure to pay principal and make whole amount when due at maturity or otherwise, failure to pay interest within five business days of the due date, failure to satisfy any financial covenant, failure to comply with the non-financial covenants within a 30-day grace period, default beyond the applicable grace period for payments on other borrowings and cross acceleration for acceleration of other borrowings as a result of non-monetary defaults provided that either of such defaults relates to indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount of more than 2% of consolidated total assets, certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency of UGI Utilities and its principal subsidiaries, judgment defaults provided such judgment relates to the payment of money aggregating in excess of 2% of consolidated total assets, and material ERISA defaults.
The Notes are callable by UGI Utilities at any time, in whole or in part, at the make-whole price, which is the greater of (i) par plus accrued interest or (ii) the present value of the remaining principal and interest payments due on the Notes discounted by the yield on the U.S. Treasury obligation having a final maturity corresponding to the remaining average life of the Notes plus 50 basis points. Holders of the Notes have a right to require prepayment of the principal amount of the Notes, together with interest accrued thereon, if UGI Utilities ceases to be directly or indirectly majority owned, beneficially and of record, by the Company, including, without limitation, if the Company ceases to own (beneficially and of record), directly or indirectly, voting stock of UGI Utilities (or other securities convertible into such voting stock) representing 51% or more of the combined voting power of all voting stock of UGI Utilities and 51% or more of the economic interests in UGI Utilities.
The foregoing description of the Note Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Note Purchase Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 4.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
On May 4, 2021 (the “Restatement Effective Date”), the Company amended and restated that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of August 1, 2019, by and among the Company, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, Citizens Bank, N.A., Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, PNC Bank, National Association and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as co-documentation agents, and the other financial institutions from time to time party thereto (as amended and restated, the “Credit Agreement”), comprising of a $250 million term loan facility maturing on August 1, 2024, a $300 million term loan facility maturing on the four year anniversary of the Restatement Effective Date (the “Term A-2 Loans”), and a $300 million revolving credit facility (including a $10 million sublimit for letters of credit) maturing on August 1, 2024 (the “Senior Credit Facility”). The amendment, among other things, (i) creates a new four-year, $300 million delayed draw term loan facility under the Senior Credit
