American Water (AWK) Announces 37.4M Share Secondary Stock Offering

November 16, 2009 4:33 PM EST

American Water (NYSE: AWK) today announced an offering of 37.4 million shares of common stock, by a subsidiary of RWE AG, as selling stockholder. Pursuant to the offering, all shares will be sold by the selling stockholder with proceeds going to RWE AG.

The selling stockholder has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 3.7 million additional shares. After the offering, and assuming full exercise of the underwriters' option, the selling stockholder will have completed its divestiture of American Water.

BofA Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated are acting as joint book-running managers in connection with the offering.


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