Southwest Airlines (LUV) Announces Proposed 55M Share Common Offering & $1B Convertible Senior Notes Offering Due 2025
Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) today announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of 55,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company (the "Common Stock Offering") and an underwritten public offering of $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the "Convertible Notes" and such offering, the "Convertible Notes Offering").
The Company intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 8,250,000 additional shares of common stock in the Common Stock Offering and a 30-day option to purchase up to $150 million aggregate principal amount of additional Convertible Notes, solely to cover over-allotments, in the Convertible Notes Offering. The Company expects to use the net proceeds from the Common Stock Offering and the Convertible Notes Offering for general corporate purposes. Neither of the closings of the Common Stock Offering or the Convertible Notes Offering is conditioned upon the closing of the other offering.
Morgan Stanley, BofA Securities, J.P. Morgan, BNP Paribas, and Citigroup are acting as the joint book-running managers for the Common Stock Offering and the Convertible Notes Offering, and Morgan Stanley, BofA Securities, and J.P. Morgan are acting as representatives of the underwriters of the offerings.