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GrafTech International Ltd. (EAF) Prices 23M Share Upsized Common Offering at $20/Sh; Announces Concurrent 11.68M Share Buyback from Brookfield Asset Management (BAM)

August 9, 2018 5:56 AM

GrafTech International Ltd. (NYSE: EAF) (the “Company”) today announced the pricing of a secondary offering of its common stock, which was upsized from 20,000,000 shares to 23,000,000 shares. The shares have been offered by the majority stockholder, an affiliate of Brookfield Business Partners LP, a publicly listed business services and industrials company of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE: BAM), at a price to the public of $20.00 per share. The offering is expected to close on August 13, 2018, subject to customary closing conditions.

In connection with the offering, the selling stockholder has granted the underwriters a 30 day option to purchase up to an additional 3,450,000 shares of common stock.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC have acted as joint lead book running managers and as representatives of the underwriters for the offering; Citigroup Global Markets Inc., RBC Capital Markets, LLC, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and BMO Capital Markets Corp. have acted as joint book running managers for the offering. CIBC Capital Markets, National Bank Financial Inc., Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. and TD Securities (USA) LLC have acted as co-managers for the offering.

In addition, the Company has entered into a share repurchase agreement with the selling stockholder pursuant to which it will repurchase 11,688,311 shares from Brookfield Asset Management. The price per share to be paid by the Company is equal to the price paid by the underwriters in the offering, net of underwriting commissions and discounts. The Company expects to fund the share repurchase from cash on hand. The share repurchase will be consummated concurrently with the offering. Although the share repurchase is conditioned upon, among other things, the closing of the offering, the closing of the offering is not conditioned upon the closing of the share repurchase.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

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