{"id":43024,"date":"2022-02-19T11:13:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T16:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=43024"},"modified":"2022-02-19T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T16:13:58","slug":"ala-pr-k-redemption-now-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=43024","title":{"rendered":"ALA.PR.K Redemption Now Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AltaGas Ltd. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altagas.ca\/newsroom\/news-releases\/altagas-announces-intention-redeem-all-outstanding-series-k-preferred-shares\">has announced<\/a> (on February 16):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>its intention to redeem \u2013 in accordance with the terms of the Cumulative Redeemable 5-Year Minimum Rate Reset Preferred Shares, Series K (the &#8220;Series K Shares&#8221;) as set out in the Company&#8217;s articles \u2013 all of its 12,000,000 issued and outstanding Series K Shares on March 31, 2022 (the &#8220;Redemption Date&#8221;) for a redemption price equal to $25.00 per Series K Share, together with all accrued and unpaid dividends to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (the &#8220;Redemption Price&#8221;), less any tax required to be deducted or withheld by the Company.<\/p>\n<p>As outlined in a January 11, 2022 press release, AltaGas will use the proceeds from the $300 million Financing of 5.25% Fixed-to-Fixed Rate Subordinated Notes, Series 1 due January 11, 2082 (the &#8220;Series 1 Notes&#8221;) to redeem the Series K Shares.  AltaGas expects to save approximately $66 million in the initial ten-year term of the Series 1 Notes due to lower taxes and financing charges. The Financing and Redemption will also continue to stagger, extend and de-risk AltaGas&#8217; capital structure.<\/p>\n<p>The Company has provided notice today of the Redemption Price and the Redemption Date to the sole registered holder of the Series K Shares in accordance with the terms of the Series K Shares as set out in the Company&#8217;s articles. Non-registered holders of Series K Shares should contact their broker or other intermediary for information regarding the redemption process for the Series K Shares in which they hold a beneficial interest. The Company&#8217;s transfer agent for the Series K Shares is Computershare Investor Services Inc. Questions regarding the redemption process may be directed to Computershare Investor Services Inc. at 1-800-564-6253 or by email to corporateactions@computershare.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This confirms the <a href=\"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=42857\">earlier, non-binding company statement<\/a>. Thanks to Assiduous Reader <i>CanSiamCyp<\/i> for <a href=\"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=43008#comment-196255\">bringing this to my attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AltaGas Ltd. has announced (on February 16): its intention to redeem \u2013 in accordance with the terms of the Cumulative Redeemable 5-Year Minimum Rate Reset Preferred Shares, Series K (the &#8220;Series K Shares&#8221;) as set &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}