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Subsequent Events
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Subsequent Events  
Subsequent Events

17. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS:

On April 4, 2022, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries, including OEG Attractions Holdings, LLC (“OEG”), entered into an investment agreement (the “Investment Agreement”) with Atairos Group, Inc. (“Atairos”) and A-OEG Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of Atairos (the “Investor”), pursuant to which OEG will issue and sell to Investor, and Investor will acquire, 30% of the equity interests of OEG for approximately $293.0 million, subject to certain adjustments as set forth in the Investment Agreement (the “OEG Transaction”). The purchase price in connection with the OEG Transaction may be increased by $30.0 million if OEG achieves certain financial objectives in 2023 or 2024.

Upon closing of the OEG Transaction, the Company will retain a controlling 70% equity interest in OEG and will continue to consolidate OEG and the other subsidiaries comprising the Company’s Entertainment segment in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2022, subject

to customary closing conditions, including the closing of the OEG Financing (as defined below). After the payment of transaction expenses, the Company anticipates using substantially all of the net proceeds from the OEG Transaction, together with the net proceeds the Company receives from the OEG Financing (as defined below), to repay the outstanding balance of the Company’s existing $300 million term loan A and to pay down substantially all borrowings outstanding under the Company’s revolving credit facility.

In connection with the execution of the Investment Agreement, OEG Borrower, LLC (“OEG Borrower”), an entity that is to be a wholly owned subsidiary of OEG, executed a commitment letter (the “Commitment Letter”) with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. (collectively, the “Commitment Parties”). Under the terms of the Commitment Letter, the Commitment Parties have agreed to structure and arrange (i) the OEG term loan in an aggregate principal amount of $300.0 million, plus, at OEG Borrower’s election, an additional amount sufficient to fund certain original issue discount or upfront fees and (ii) a senior secured revolving credit facility in an initial committed amount of $50.0 million (or, following a Successful Revolving Syndication (as defined in the Commitment Letter), such greater amount up to $65.0 million as contemplated by the Commitment Letter in connection with the appointment of additional lead arrangers) (collectively, (i) and (ii) being the “OEG Financing”).

On April 4, 2022, the Company entered into Amendment No. 5 (the “Fifth Amendment”) to the Sixth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of October 31, 2019 (as amended prior to the Fifth Amendment, the “Existing Credit Agreement” and the Existing Credit Agreement, as amended by the Fifth Amendment, the “Credit Agreement”), among the Company, as a guarantor, its subsidiary RHP Hotel Properties, LP, as borrower, certain other subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, as guarantors, certain subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, as pledgors, the lenders party thereto and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent. The Fifth Amendment provides for certain amendments to the Existing Credit Agreement, each of which is to be effective upon the closing of the OEG Transaction. These amendments include, among others, the exclusion of OEG and its subsidiaries from negative covenants and certain restrictions related to certain equity issuances, investments, acquisitions, dispositions and indebtedness; changes to certain financial covenant requirements through December 2022; and a requirement that, following January 1, 2023, the Company satisfy the financial covenants currently provided for in the Credit Agreement.