LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) (the “Company”) today announced that it has priced its previously announced notes offering and has agreed to issue and sell $600 million aggregate principal amount of its 7.75% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”). The aggregate principal amount of Notes to be issued in the offering was increased to $600 million from the previously announced $500 million. The Notes will be sold to investors at par.
The Notes will be the Company’s general unsecured senior obligations and will not be guaranteed by any of the Company’s subsidiaries. Net proceeds from the Notes offering will be used to pay the fees and expenses of the offering and for general corporate purposes. The closing of the Notes offering is scheduled to occur on April 1, 2020, subject to customary closing conditions.
The Notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) or any state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to U.S. persons absent registration or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements. Accordingly, the Notes will be offered and sold in the United States only to qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act and to non-U.S. persons in offshore transactions outside the United States in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act. This release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of, the Notes in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
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