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Borr Drilling — Share Issue/Capital Change 2022
Aug 10, 2022
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Borr Drilling Limited Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Shares
Borr Drilling Limited Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Shares
NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY, IN ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR
DISTRIBUTION WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER
OF ANY OF THE SECURITIES DESCRIBED HEREIN.
Hamilton, Bermuda, August 10, 2022. Borr Drilling Limited (the "Company") (NYSE
and OSE: BORR) announces today that it has priced its previously announced
offering of 69,444,444 shares, at a price of $3.60 per common share for total
gross proceeds of $250 million. The Company has also granted the underwriters a
30-day option to purchase up to an additional 6,944,444 common shares at the
offering price minus underwriting discounts.
No securities in the NYSE offering will be offered or listed on Oslo Stock
Exchange.
The Company plans to use the proceeds from the offering to consummate a
refinancing with its lenders under its Syndicated Facility, New Bridge Facility,
Hayfin Facility and shipyard delivery financing arrangements with Keppel and
PPL, and for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things,
repayments of its debt obligations, payments to its creditors in return for
potential concessions or extensions of current facilities, capital expenditures,
including costs in connection with activations and re-activations of rigs being
brought into operations, or funding of its working capital.
Closing of the offering is subject to (i) the Company's authorized share capital
being increased by 40,000,000 common shares, pursuant to a special general
meeting to be held on August 16, 2022, (ii) the Company's authorized share
capital being further increased by 35,000,000 common shares pursuant to a second
special general meeting to be held on August 25, 2022, and (iii) the Company
having entered into binding term sheets or other binding agreements with all
applicable lenders (or obtaining written commitments approved by the Company's
Board of Directors) under its Syndicated Facility, New Bridge Facility, Hayfin
Facility and shipyard delivery financing arrangements with Keppel and PPL for a
refinancing of those facilities on the terms previously announced by the
Company, no later than the time of the special general meeting to be held on
August 16, 2022.
A first settlement of the offering is expected on August 17, 2022, subject to
fulfilment of the conditions described in (i) and (iii) above. A second
settlement is expected on August 26, 2022, for the remainder of the shares,
provided all the conditions described above are satisfied.
DNB Markets, Clarksons Securities, Pareto Securities, ABG Sundal Collier ASA,
Arctic Securities AS, Fearnley Securities and SpareBank 1 Markets are the book
-running managers for the offering. Cleaves Securities AS is co-manager for the
offering.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of
an offer to buy securities, nor will there be any sale of the securities in any
jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior
to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such
jurisdiction.
This information is considered to be inside information pursuant to the EU
Market Abuse Regulation and subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to
section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
This stock exchange notice was published by Andreas Lavik Lie, Vice President
Treasury & Investor Relations of the Company, on 10 August 2022 at 08:30 CEST
About Borr Drilling Limited
Borr Drilling Limited is an international drilling contractor incorporated in
Bermuda in 2016 and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange on August 30, 2017 and on
the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2019 under the ticker "BORR". The
Company owns and operates jack-up rigs of modern and high specification designs
and provides services focused on the shallow water segment to the offshore oil
and gas industry worldwide. Please visit the Company's website at:
www.borrdrilling.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these forward
-looking statements by words or phrases such as "may," "will," "anticipate,"
"plan," "expect," or other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements
include statements with respect to the offering, the conditions to the offering,
including the refinancing with certain of its lenders, the intended use of
proceeds, and other non-historical statements. The forward-looking statements
included in this press release are subject to significant risks, uncertainties,
contingencies and factors that may cause the Company's actual results,
performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or
implied by the forward-looking statements including risks related to the conduct
of the offering, the use of proceeds, whether the conditions to closing of the
offering will be met, the risk that the Company will not consummate the proposed
refinancing, the number of shares to be sold in the offering and other risks
described in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F and other
filings of the Company with the SEC. The forward-looking statements made in this
press release speak only as of the date of this press release. Except as
required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise
publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise, after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence
of unanticipated events.
August 10, 2022
The Board of Directors
Borr Drilling Limited
Hamilton, Bermuda
Questions should be directed to: Magnus Vaaler, CFO, +47 22 48 30 00