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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On June 28, 2024, W. P. Carey Inc. (the “Company”) consummated the public offering (the “Offering”) of $400 million aggregate principal amount of 5.375% Senior Notes due 2034 (the “Senior Notes”). The Offering settled on June 28, 2024 and was made pursuant to (i) the Company’s automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-264613), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 2, 2022; and (ii) a final prospectus supplement relating to the Senior Notes, dated as of June 18, 2024. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this Offering for general corporate purposes, including to fund potential future investments (including acquisitions and development and redevelopment activities) and to repay certain indebtedness.
The terms of the Senior Notes are governed by an indenture, dated as of March 14, 2014 (the “Base Indenture”), by and between the Company, as issuer, and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Tenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 28, 2024 (the “Tenth Supplemental Indenture” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), by and between the Company and the Trustee.
The Senior Notes bear interest at 5.375% per annum, accruing from June 28, 2024. Interest on the Senior Notes is payable semi-annually on June 30 and December 30 of each year, commencing on December 30, 2024. The Senior Notes will mature on June 30, 2034. The Senior Notes are the Company’s direct, unsecured and unsubordinated obligations and will rank equally in right of payment with all of the Company’s existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness.
The Company may redeem the Senior Notes at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, at the make-whole redemption price specified in the Tenth Supplemental Indenture. If the Senior Notes are redeemed on or after March 30, 2034 (three months prior to the maturity date), the redemption price will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but not including, the redemption date.
The Indenture contains covenants that, among other things, require the Company to maintain at all times a specified ratio of unencumbered assets to unsecured debt and limit the Company from incurring secured and unsecured indebtedness. However, those covenants are subject to significant exceptions. In addition, our ability to consummate a merger, consolidation or a transfer of all or substantially all of our consolidated assets to another person is limited unless certain conditions are satisfied. The Indenture also provides for customary events of default which, if any of them occurs, would permit or require the principal of and accrued interest on the Notes to become or to be declared due and payable.
The foregoing descriptions of the Base Indenture and the Tenth Supplemental Indenture in this Current Report on Form 8-K do not purport to be complete, and are qualified in their entirety by reference to Exhibits 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K, which are incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| Date: June 28, 2024 | W. P. Carey Inc. | |
| By: | /s/ ToniAnn Sanzone | |
| ToniAnn Sanzone | ||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||