UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 2, 2015
HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 1-34910 | 90-0607005 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(IRS Employer Identification No.) |
4101 Washington Avenue, Newport News, Virginia |
23607 | |
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) |
Registrants telephone number, including area code: (757) 380-2000
None
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2.):
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Item 8.01 | Other Events |
On November 2, 2015, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (the Company) announced the pricing of $600 million aggregate principal amount of 5.000% Senior Notes due 2025 (the Notes) at a price of 100% of the par value of the Notes. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes, together with cash on hand, to purchase $600 million aggregate principal amount of the Companys outstanding 7.125% Senior Notes due 2021 (the 2021 Notes) in its previously announced tender offer and consent solicitation for the 2021 Notes and, if needed, redeem any untendered portion of the 2021 Notes. The sale of the Notes is expected to close on November 17, 2015. A press release issued pursuant to Rule 135c under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, regarding the pricing of the offering is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Statements in this Current Report on Form 8-K, other than statements of historical fact, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed in these statements. Factors that may cause such differences include: the failure to complete the sale of the Notes; the failure to consummate the tender offer and consent solicitation; changes in government and customer priorities and requirements (including government budgetary constraints, shifts in defense spending, and changes in customer short-range and long-range plans); our ability to obtain new contracts, estimate our future contract costs and perform our contracts effectively; changes in government regulations and procurement processes and our ability to comply with such requirements; our ability to realize the expected benefits from consolidation of our Ingalls facilities; natural disasters; adverse economic conditions in the United States and globally; risks related to our indebtedness and leverage; and other risk factors discussed in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. There may be other risks and uncertainties that we are unable to predict at this time or that we currently do not expect to have a material adverse effect on our business, and we undertake no obligations to update any forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements that we may make.
Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits |
(d) | Exhibits |
Number |
Exhibit | |
99.1 | Press release dated November 2, 2015 |
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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 hereunto duly authorized.
HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC. | ||||
By: | /s/ Charles R. Monroe, Jr. | |||
Name: | Charles R. Monroe, Jr. | |||
Title: | Corporate Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Secretary |
Date: November 2, 2015
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit |
Exhibit | |
99.1 | Press release dated November 2, 2015 |
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Exhibit 99.1
NEWS RELEASE |
Contacts: | ||
Jerri Fuller Dickseski (Media) jerri.dickseski@hii-co.com | ||
757-380-2341 | ||
Rick Wyatt (Bond Investors) | ||
Rick.Wyatt@hii-co.com | ||
757-380-2101 |
Huntington Ingalls Industries Announces Pricing of 5.000% Senior Notes Due 2025
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Nov. 2, 2015)Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (NYSE:HII) (HII or the Company) announced today that it will sell $600 million aggregate principal amount of 5.000% Senior Notes due 2025 (the Notes) at a price of 100.00% of the par value. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes and cash on hand to pay the consideration for the previously announced cash tender offer (the Tender Offer) and consent solicitation (Consent Solicitation) with respect to HIIs outstanding 7.125% Senior Notes due 2021 (the 2021 Notes), plus fees and expenses, and, if all 2021 Notes are not tendered pursuant to the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation, to fund the redemption of all 2021 Notes that remain outstanding after the completion of the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation.
The Notes will be offered in the United States to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), and outside the United States pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.
The Notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. This notice is being issued pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 135c under the Securities Act.
This press release is neither an offer to sell nor the solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes or any other securities, and there shall not be any offer to sell, solicitation of an offer to buy, or sale of the Notes in any jurisdiction in which, or to any person to whom, such an offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful. Any offers of the Notes will be made only by means of an offering memorandum.
Huntington Ingalls Industries is Americas largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of engineering, manufacturing and management services to the nuclear energy, oil and gas markets. For more than a century, HIIs Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs approximately 37,000 people operating both domestically and internationally.
Huntington Ingalls Industries
4101 Washington Ave. Newport News, VA 23607
http://newsroom.huntingtoningalls.com
Statements in this release, other than statements of historical fact, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed in these statements. Factors that may cause such differences include the failure to complete the sale of the Notes; the failure to consummate the tender offer and consent solicitation; changes in government and customer priorities and requirements (including government budgetary constraints, shifts in defense spending, and changes in customer short-range and long-range plans); our ability to obtain new contracts, estimate our future contract costs and perform our contracts effectively; changes in government regulations and procurement processes and our ability to comply with such requirements; our ability to realize the expected benefits from consolidation of our Ingalls facilities; natural disasters; adverse economic conditions in the United States and globally; risks related to our indebtedness and leverage and other risk factors discussed in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. There may be other risks and uncertainties that we are unable to predict at this time or that we currently do not expect to have a material adverse effect on our business, and we undertake no obligations to update any forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements that we may make.
Huntington Ingalls Industries
4101 Washington Ave. Newport News, VA 23607
www.huntingtoningalls.com/media
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