EFN.PR.A : No Conversion to FloatingReset

Element Fleet Management Corp. has announced:

that none of its outstanding Cumulative 5-Year Rate Reset Preferred Shares, Series A (the “Series A shares”) will be converted into Cumulative Floating Rate Preferred Shares, Series B (the “Series B shares”) on December 31, 2018.

During the conversion notice period, which commenced on December 3, 2018 and ended at 5:00 p.m. (EST) on December 17, 2018, 209,460 Series A shares were tendered for conversion into Series B shares. In accordance with Section 4.03(a)(iii) of the rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions attaching to the Series A shares, as provided in the Corporation’s restated articles of incorporation dated October 4, 2016, since there would be outstanding on December 31, 2018 less than 500,000 Series B shares, after having taken into account all Series A shares tendered for conversion into Series B shares, holders of Series A shares who elected to tender their shares for conversion will not have their Series A shares converted into Series B shares on December 31, 2018.

As a result, no Series B shares will be issued on December 31, 2018.

It will be recalled that EFN.PR.A will reset at 6.933% effective December 31, 2018.

EFN.PR.A is a FixedReset, 6.60%+471, that was announced 2013-12-9; HIMIPref™ commenced tracking the issue in September 2015 after it received a DBRS rating. The notice of extension dated 2018-11-20 was reported on PrefBlog. The issue is relegated to the Scraps – FixedReset Discount subindex on credit concerns.

I recommended against conversion.

One Response to “EFN.PR.A : No Conversion to FloatingReset”

  1. […] will reset at 6.933% effective December 31, 2018; I recommended against conversion; and there was no conversion. The issue is relegated to the Scraps – FixedReset Discount subindex on credit […]

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