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Société Générale to Provide Hill Int’l With $165MM in Debt Facilities

Date: Jul 28, 2014 @ 07:24 AM
Filed Under: Specialty Industries

Hill International, a leader in managing construction risk, announced that it has received a commitment from Société Générale to provide a refinancing of the company's existing senior debt facilities. This transaction, which is being arranged by Société Générale's U.S. broker-dealer affiliate SG Americas Securities, LLC, will provide senior secured debt facilities to Hill in the aggregate principal amount of $165.0 million.

The debt facilities consist of a six-year term loan facility of $120.0 million and five-year revolving credit facilities totaling $45.0 million consisting of a $30.0 million U.S. dollar-denominated facility to be made available to Hill and a $15.0 million Euro-denominated facility to be made available to Hill's subsidiary Hill International N.V. The revolving credit facilities include a $35.0 million sub-limit for letters of credit with $25.0 million allocated to the U.S. revolver and $10.0 million allocated to the international revolver. The credit facilities are subject to the satisfaction of certain specified conditions and are expected to close during August 2014.

The net proceeds of the new debt facilities, together with the net proceeds of the equity offering described below, will be used to pay off and terminate Hill's existing senior credit facility with a bank group led by Bank of America, N.A. and the existing second lien term loan with funds managed by Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC.

More detailed information on the commitment for these debt facilities can be found in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Hill today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Hill also announced the launch of a follow-on offering of 8,000,000 shares of its common stock led by KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. as sole book-running manager. William Blair & Company, L.L.C., Houlihan Lokey Capital, Inc., Boenning & Scattergood, Inc., Sidoti & Company, LLC and SG Americas Securities, LLC are serving as co-managers in connection with the offering.

The shares of common stock to be issued in the equity offering are registered pursuant to a shelf registration statement that has been filed with and declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The equity offering may be made only by means of a prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any shares of common stock or any other securities of the company.

Hill International with 4,400 employees in 100 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management, construction claims and other consulting services primarily to the buildings, transportation, environmental, energy and industrial markets. Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as the ninth largest construction management firm in the United States.

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