Arcos Dorados Announces Pricing of Secondary Offering of Class A Shares
Arcos Dorados Holdings Com Npv CL A (NYSE:ARCO)
Today : Thursday 20 October 2011
Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. (NYSE: ARCO) ("Arcos Dorados") announced today the pricing of its underwritten secondary offering of 40,432,690 Class A shares at a price to the public of $22.00 per share.
All of the Class A shares are being offered by certain selling shareholders. The selling shareholders have granted the underwriters the option to purchase up to an additional 4,043,268 class A shares at the public offering price less the underwriting discount to cover over-allotments.
J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, BofA Merrill Lynch, Itau BBA and Credit Suisse are acting as joint bookrunners for the offering.
A registration statement relating to this offering was declared effective by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on October 19, 2011. Any offer or sale may be made solely by means of a written prospectus forming part of the effective registration statement. Copies of the final prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from J.P. Morgan, telephone: 866-803-9204; from Morgan Stanley, 180 Varick Street 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014, attention: Prospectus Department, telephone: 866-718-1646; from Citigroup, Brooklyn Army Terminal, 140 58th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220, telephone: 800-831-9146; from BofA Merrill Lynch, 4 World Financial Center, New York, NY 10080, attention: Prospectus Department, or e-mail dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com; from Itau BBA, 767 Fifth Avenue 50th Floor, New York, NY 10153, USA, Att.: Equity Sales Desk by phone at +1 (212) 710-6756; or from Credit Suisse, Attention: Prospectus Department, One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010 or by calling 1-800-221-1037, or e-mail newyork.prospectus@credit-suisse.com.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of, the securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the laws of such state or jurisdiction.
About Arcos Dorados
Arcos Dorados is the world's largest McDonald's franchisee, in terms of systemwide sales and number of restaurants, and the largest quick service restaurant chain in Latin America and the Caribbean, with restaurants in 20 countries and territories.
