Orient-Express Hotels Announces Common Share Offering
Plans to sell 10 million shares of Class A common shares, par value $.01 per share, in an underwritten public offering pursuant to its effective Shelf registration statement previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The underwriters will be granted a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1.5 million shares to cover over-allotments, if any. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to pay the cash portion of the purchase price of two hotel properties located in Taormina, Sicily and for general corporate purposes.
The total purchase price of the two hotels, the luxury 83-key Grand Hotel Timeo and the nearby 78-key Villa Sant'Andrea, is approximately $117 million, of which approximately $37 million will be paid in cash and the balance will be in the form of the Company's assumption of existing and new indebtedness relating to the two properties.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Barclays Capital Inc. are acting as joint book-running managers and underwriters for the offering.
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