Liberty Media Corporation announces payment of Extraordinary Additional Distribution and adjusted composition of Reference Shares under 2.25% Exchangeable Senior Debentures Due 2046 arising from the acquisition of Time Warner Inc. by AT&T Inc.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Liberty Media Corporation听("Liberty Media" or "Liberty") (NASDAQ: LSXMA, LSXMB, LSXMK, FWONA, FWONK, BATRA, BATRK)听announces an Extraordinary Additional Distribution to the holders of its 2.25% Exchangeable Senior Debentures due 2046 (the "Debentures"). The amount of the Extraordinary Additional Distribution is $514.1295 per $1,000 original principal amount of Debentures (a 鈥淒ebenture鈥�), which is attributable to the cash consideration of $53.75 per share paid to former holders of common stock of Time Warner Inc. (鈥淭WX鈥�) on June 15, 2018 in connection with AT&T Inc.鈥檚 (鈥淎T&T鈥�) acquisition of TWX (鈥淎T&T/TWX Acquisition鈥�). As of March 30, 2018, the aggregate principal amount of Debentures outstanding was approximately $445 million. After giving effect to the Extraordinary Additional Distribution, the aggregate adjusted principal amount of Debentures outstanding will be approximately $216 million.
Liberty expects to pay the Extraordinary Additional Distribution on June 22, 2018, to holders of record of the Debentures on June 14, 2018. Under the indenture governing the Debentures, the original principal amount of the Debentures is reduced in an amount equal to each Extraordinary Additional Distribution that is made to holders of the Debentures. Thereafter, the adjusted principal amount is further reduced on each successive quarterly interest payment date to the extent necessary to cause the quarterly interest payment to represent the payment of an annualized yield of 2.25% of the adjusted principal amount. This latter adjustment will take effect on September 30, 2018, the second succeeding interest payment date after the payment of the Extraordinary Additional Distribution. Liberty has not made any Extraordinary Additional Distributions on the Debentures to date.
Reductions to the principal amount of the Debentures do not affect the amount of the quarterly interest payments received by holders of the Debentures, which will continue to be a rate equal to 2.25% per annum of the original principal amount of the Debentures.
Below is a detail of the amount of the Extraordinary Additional