HOUSTON, July 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwestern Energy
Company (NYSE: SWN) (the "Company") today announced an amendment
with respect to its previously announced cash tender offers to
purchase (as amended, the "Amended Tender Offers") its outstanding
3.30% Senior Notes due 2018, 7.50% Senior Notes due 2018 and 4.05%
Senior Notes due 2020 (collectively, the "Notes") for a maximum
aggregate purchase price (excluding accrued interest) of up to
$750.0 million (the "Aggregate
Maximum Purchase Price").
The amendment provides for an extension of the period during
which validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) Notes are
eligible to receive the Early Tender Premium as (as defined in the
Offer to Purchase (as defined below)) from 5:00 p.m., New York
City time, on July 13, 2016 to
5:00 p.m., New York City time, on July 15, 2016 (such date and time, as it may be
further extended, the "Early Tender Time").
Additionally, the Company announced that the financing condition
to which the tender offers were subject has been satisfied and that
the Amended Tender Offers will not include any amendments to the
financing condition.
This announcement amends the Company's Offer to Purchase, dated
June 29, 2016 (as amended, the "Offer
to Purchase"). Other than the amendment described above, all
terms and conditions in the Offer to Purchase remain
unchanged.
The withdrawal deadline for tendered Notes was 5:00 p.m., New York
City time, on July 13, 2016
(the "Withdrawal Deadline"). As a result, tendered Notes may not be
withdrawn, except as required by applicable law.
The Company reserves the right, but is under no obligation, at
any point following the Early Tender Time and before July 28, 2016, to accept for purchase any Notes
validly tendered prior to the Early Tender Time. The early
settlement date will be determined at the Company's option and is
currently expected to occur on July 18,
2016, subject to all conditions to the Amended Tender Offers
having been either satisfied or waived by the Company as of the
early settlement date.
Credit Suisse Securities (USA)
LLC ("Credit Suisse") and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc. ("MUFG") are the Lead Dealer
Managers in the Amended Tender Offers. D.F.
King & Co., Inc. ("D.F.
King") has been retained to serve as both the Tender Agent
and Information Agent for the Amended Tender Offers. Persons with
questions regarding the Amended Tender Offers should contact Credit
Suisse at (toll free) (800) 820-1653 or (collect) (212) 538-2147 or
MUFG at (toll free) (877) 744-4532 or (collect) (212) 405-7481.
Requests for the Offer to Purchase should be directed to
D.F. King at (toll free) (866)
406-2283 or (collect) (212) 269-5550 or SWN@dfking.com.
This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell, a
solicitation to buy or an offer to purchase or sell any securities.
The Amended Tender Offers are being made only pursuant to the Offer
to Purchase and only in such jurisdictions as is permitted under
applicable law. In any jurisdiction in which the Amended Tender
Offers are required to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the
Amended Tender Offers will be deemed to be made on behalf of the
Company by the Dealer Managers, or one or more registered brokers
or dealers that are licensed under the laws of such
jurisdiction.
Southwestern Energy Company is an independent energy company
whose wholly owned subsidiaries are engaged in natural gas and oil
exploration, development and production, natural gas gathering and
marketing. Additional information on the company can be found on
the Internet at http://www.swn.com.
This news release contains forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements relate to future events and anticipated
results of operations, business strategies, and other aspects of
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Statements may be forward looking even in the absence of these
particular words. Where, in any forward-looking statement, the
company expresses an expectation or belief as to future results,
such expectation or belief is expressed in good faith and believed
to have a reasonable basis. However, there can be no assurance that
such expectation or belief will result or be achieved. The actual
results of operations can and will be affected by a variety of
risks and other matters including, but not limited to, changes in
commodity prices; changes in expected levels of natural gas and oil
reserves or production; operating hazards, drilling risks,
unsuccessful exploratory activities; limited access to capital or
significantly higher cost of capital related to illiquidity or
uncertainty in the domestic or international financial markets;
international monetary conditions; unexpected cost increases;
potential liability for remedial actions under existing or future
environmental regulations; potential liability resulting from
pending or future litigation; and general domestic and
international economic and political conditions; as well as changes
in tax, environmental and other laws applicable to our business.
Other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those described in the forward-looking statements include
other economic, business, competitive and/or regulatory factors
affecting our business generally as set forth in our filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. Unless legally required,
Southwestern Energy Company undertakes no obligation to update
publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.
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