Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. has commenced a secondary offering of 35,000,000 common shares. The shares will be offered by certain affiliates of The Carlyle Group (the “selling shareholders”). The offering is being made pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 previously filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The selling shareholders have also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 5,250,000 common shares. Axalta will not receive any of the proceeds from the offering of shares by the selling shareholders.
Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Deutsche Bank Securities and J.P. Morgan are lead book-running managers for the proposed secondary offering. Additional book-running managers are BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Jefferies and UBS Investment Bank. Co-managers are Morgan Stanley, BB&T Capital Markets, Nomura and SMBC Nikko.
Copies of the preliminary prospectus relating to the proposed secondary offering may be obtained from Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 or telephone: (800) 831-9146; Goldman, Sachs & Co., Attn: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, telephone: (866) 471-2526 or email: [email protected]; Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Attn: Prospectus Group, 60 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005, telephone: 800-503-4611 or email: [email protected]; and J.P. Morgan, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Ave., Edgewood, NY 11717 or telephone: (866) 803-9204.
The Company also announced that Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Deutsche Bank Securities and J.P. Morgan, the lead book-running managers in the recent public sale of 57,500,000 common shares of the Company by certain affiliates of The Carlyle Group, are terminating the lock-up agreements entered into in connection with the Company’s initial public offering by the Company’s officers and directors, each of whom has entered into new lock-up agreements in connection with the new offering. The termination will take effect on April 1, 2015.
