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13 Aug 2009material agreement▼ BadMajor
Quicksilver raised another $300 million, this time in 9.125% Senior Notes due 2019, again to pay down its revolver -- its third bond issue in about 14 months, priced well above its 2008 notes though below the 11.75% it had paid just seven weeks earlier, as it worked through the debt load from the 2008 acquisition.
Quicksilver issued $600 million of 11.75% senior notes due January 2016, guaranteed by its subsidiaries, under a seventh supplemental indenture with Bank of New York Mellon as trustee. The notes are callable from July 2013 (earlier at a make-whole price) and carry the usual limits on further borrowing, liens, asset sales and distributions.
Quicksilver priced $600 million of new 11.75% Senior Notes due 2016 -- far above the 7-8% coupons on its earlier debt -- with proceeds, plus cash from selling a 27.5% stake in its Alliance leasehold to Eni, used to retire the second-lien term loan taken on for the 2008 Barnett Shale acquisition less than a year after it was drawn.
Quicksilver said it would restate its 2008 10-K and Q1 2009 10-Q after finding footnote-disclosure errors about guarantor-subsidiary financial information required by its bond indentures, and disclosed two material weaknesses in its financial reporting controls -- the corrections didn't change reported earnings or cash flow, but the internal-controls admission was a new and negative signal.
Quicksilver's lenders relaxed its asset-coverage covenants (minimum 1.30x total-debt and 1.60x secured-debt coverage) through March 2010 and trimmed its debt capacity, but in exchange raised the second-lien term loan's interest rate sharply, from LIBOR+4.5% to LIBOR+7%, plus new fees -- the first real sign its credit was being repriced for risk rather than growth.
Owl Creek I, L.P, Owl Creek II, L.P, Owl Creek Advisors, LLC, Owl Creek Asset Management, L.P, Jeffrey A. Altman disclosed a new substantial QUICKSILVER RESOURCES INC shareholding (5.88% of votes).
SPO Partners II, L.P, SPO Advisory Partners, L.P, San Francisco Partners, L.P, SF Advisory Partners, L.P, SPO Advisory Corp, John H. Scully, William E. Oberndorf, William J. Patterson, Edward H. McDermott, The Elizabeth R. & William J. Patterson Foundation reported a QUICKSILVER RESOURCES INC shareholding of 17,898,554 shares (10.60% of votes) in a periodic institutional filing.