Mr. Kelly Hanczyk reports
NEXUS INDUSTRIAL REIT COMPLETES $500 MILLION INAUGURAL UNSECURED DEBENTURE OFFERING
Nexus Industrial REIT has completed its previously announced offering of $500-million aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured debentures, consisting of $300-million aggregate principal amount of Series A debentures maturing April 14, 2029, and $200-million aggregate principal amount of Series B debentures maturing April 14, 2031. The Series A debentures bear interest at a fixed annual rate of 4.236 per cent per annum and the Series B debentures bear interest at a fixed annual rate of 4.641 per cent per annum. The debentures were offered on a private placement best efforts agency basis by a syndicate of agents led by BMO Capital Markets, Desjardins Capital Markets and RBC Capital Markets as joint bookrunners, and which included National Bank Capital Markets, Scotia Capital, CIBC Capital Markets, ATB Cormark Capital Markets and TD Securities.
Morningstar DBRS has provided the REIT with a credit rating of BBB (low) with a stable trend relating to the debentures. The REIT intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay existing indebtedness and for general trust purposes.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP acted as counsel to the REIT, and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP acted as counsel to the agents in connection with the offering.
The debentures have not been and will not be qualified for sale to the public under applicable securities laws in Canada, and, accordingly, any offer or sale of the debentures in Canada will be made on a basis that is exempt from the prospectus requirements of such securities laws.
About Nexus Industrial REIT
Nexus is a growth-oriented real estate investment trust focused on increasing unitholder value through the acquisition of industrial properties located in primary and secondary markets in Canada, and the ownership and management of its portfolio of properties. The REIT currently owns a portfolio of 88 properties (including one property held for development in which the REIT has an 80-per-cent interest) comprising approximately 12.4 million square feet of gross leasable area. The REIT has approximately 97,086,000 voting units issued and outstanding, including approximately 71,816,000 REIT units and approximately 25.27 million Class B LP (limited partnership) units of subsidiary limited partnerships of Nexus, which are convertible to REIT units on a one-to-one basis.
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