SBA Communications Corporation

10/11/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/11/2024 15:08

Material Agreement Form 8 K

Item 1.01

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Issuance of 2024-1CTower Securities and Purchase Agreement for and Issuance of 2024-2CTower Securities

On October 11, 2024, pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement among SBA Senior Finance, LLC ("SBA Senior Finance"), an indirect subsidiary of SBA Communications Corporation (the "Company"), Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the "Trustee"), and Barclays Capital Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several initial purchasers named on Schedule I thereto (the "Initial Purchasers"), SBA Tower Trust (the "Trust"), a New York common law trust established by SBA Depositor LLC, an indirect subsidiary of the Company ("SBA Depositor"), issued, and the Initial Purchasers purchased, $1.45 billion aggregate principal amount of Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2024-1C(the "2024-1CTower Securities"). The 2024-1CTower Securities have an anticipated repayment date in October 2029, a final maturity date in October 2054 and an interest rate of 4.831% per annum.

In addition, on October 11, 2024, SBA Senior Finance, the Trustee and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., an affiliate of Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (the "Purchaser") entered into a Purchase Agreement (the "2024-2CPurchase Agreement"), pursuant to which the Trust issued, and the Purchaser purchased, $620.0 million aggregate principal amount of Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2024-2C(the "2024-2CTower Securities"). The 2024-2CTower Securities have an anticipated repayment date in October 2027, a final maturity date in October 2054 and an interest rate of 5.115% per annum. In conjunction with the anticipated closing of the 2024-2C Tower Securities, SBA Senior Finance entered into a Treasury Rate Lock on September 10, 2024, resulting in an effective rate of 4.654% per annum for the 2024-2C Tower Securities.

To satisfy the applicable risk retention requirements of Regulation RR promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Risk Retention Rules"), SBA Guarantor LLC, an affiliate of SBA Depositor ("SBA Guarantor") also purchased $108.7 million principal amount of Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2024-1R(the "2024-1RTower Securities" and, together with the 2024-1CTower Securities and the 2024-2CTower Securities, the "2024 Tower Securities") in order to retain an "eligible horizontal residual interest" (as defined in the Risk Retention Rules) in an amount equal to at least 5% of the fair value of the offered and retained securities. Principal and interest payments made on the 2024-1RTower Securities eliminate in consolidation. The 2024-1RTower Securities have an anticipated repayment date in October 2029, a final maturity date in October 2054 and an interest rate of 6.252% per annum.

The net proceeds from the offering were approximately $2.057 billion after deducting initial purchasers' discounts and expenses. A portion of the net proceeds from the offering were used to repay the entire aggregate principal amount of the Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2014-2C($620.0 million) (the "2014-2CTower Securities"), as well as accrued and unpaid interest, to pay fees and expenses relating to the transactions and to make a cash distribution to SBA Guarantor, which will further distribute such amount to one or more other Company entities to be used for general corporate purposes, which may include repaying outstanding corporate debt. A portion of the net proceeds from the offering will be deposited to a segregated account and used to repay the Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2019-1C($1.165 billion) (the "2019-1CTower Securities") and the Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2019-1R($61.4 million) (the "2019-1RTower Securities") on the Distribution Date in January 2025, as well as accrued and unpaid interest.

Eleventh Loan and Security Agreement Supplement

In connection with the issuance of the 2024 Tower Securities, SBA Properties, LLC, SBA Sites, LLC, SBA Structures, LLC, SBA Infrastructure, LLC, SBA Monarch Towers III, LLC, SBA 2012 TC Assets PR, LLC, SBA 2012 TC Assets, LLC, SBA Towers IV, LLC, SBA Monarch Towers I, LLC, SBA Towers USVI, Inc., SBA GC Towers, LLC, SBA Towers VII, LLC, SBA Towers V, LLC, and SBA Towers VI, LLC (the "Borrowers") and Midland Loan Services, a division of PNC Bank, National Association, as servicer on behalf of the Trustee, entered into a Eleventh Loan and Security Agreement Supplement and Amendment, dated October 11, 2024 (the "Eleventh Loan Supplement"), which supplemented and amended the Second Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement, dated October 15, 2014.

Pursuant to the Eleventh Loan Supplement, among other things, (1) the outstanding principal amount of the mortgage loan (the "Mortgage Loan") was increased by $2.18 billion (or by a net of $332.3 million after giving effect to the repayment of the 2014-2CTower Securities, the 2019-1CTower Securities and the 2019-1RTower

Securities) and (2) the Borrowers became jointly and severally liable for the aggregate $8.8 billion under the Mortgage Loan corresponding to the 2019-1CTower Securities, 2019-1RSecurities, 2020-1CTower Securities, 2020-2CTower Securities, 2020-2RTower Securities, 2021-1CTower Securities, 2021-1RTower Securities, 2021-2CTower Securities, 2021-3CTower Securities, 2021-3RTower Securities, 2022-1CTower Securities, 2022-1RTower Securities and newly issued 2024 Tower Securities (together the "Tower Securities").

The Mortgage Loan is the sole asset of the Trust. The aggregate principal amount of the loan components outstanding under the Mortgage Loan is $8.8 billion, comprised of (1) $1.165 billion loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2019-1CTower Securities, (2) $61.4 million loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2019-1RSecurities, (3) the $750.0 million loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2020-1CTower Securities, (4) the $600.0 million loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2020-2CTower Securities, (5) the $71.1 million loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2020-2RTower Securities, (6) the $1.165 billion loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2021-1CTower Securities, (7) the $61.4 million loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2021-1RTower Securities, (8) the $895.0 million loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2021-2CTower Securities, (9) the $895.0 million loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2021-3CTower Securities, (10) the $94.3 million loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2021-3RTower Securities, (11) the $850.0 million loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2022-1CTower Securities, (12) the $44.8 million loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2022-1RTower Securities, (13) the $1.45 billion loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2024-1CTower Securities, (14) the $620.0 million loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2024-2CTower Securities and (15) the $108.7 million loan component with the same terms and conditions as the 2024-1RTower Securities.

The Mortgage Loan underlying the Tower Securities is to be repaid from the operating cash flows from the approximately 9,523 aggregate tower sites owned by the Borrowers, as of the closing date. The Mortgage Loan is secured by (1) mortgages, deeds of trust and deeds to secure debt on a substantial portion of the tower sites, (2) a security interest in the towers and substantially all of the Borrowers' personal property and fixtures, (3) the Borrowers' rights under tenant leases, and (4) all of the proceeds of the foregoing. For each calendar month, SBA Network Management, Inc., an indirect subsidiary of the Company, is entitled to receive a management fee for its services as manager equal to 4.5% of the Borrowers' operating revenues for the immediately preceding calendar month.

The Borrowers may prepay the $2.18 billion loan corresponding to the 2024 Tower Securities with no prepayment consideration (1) within twenty-four months of the anticipated repayment date in the case of the $1.45 billion loan corresponding to the 2024-1CTower Securities, (2) within six months of the anticipated repayment date in the case of the $620.0 million loan corresponding to the 2024-2CTower Securities, (3) with proceeds received as a result of any condemnation or casualty of any tower owned by the Borrowers or (4) during an amortization period. In all other circumstances, the Borrowers may prepay the $2.18 billion loan corresponding to the 2024 Tower Securities, in whole or in part, upon payment of the applicable prepayment consideration.

With respect to the 2024-1CTower Securities, the prepayment consideration consists of an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (i) the present value associated with the portion of the principal balance of the $1.45 billion loan being prepaid, calculated in accordance with the formula set forth in the Eleventh Loan Supplement, on the date of prepayment of all future installments of principal and interest required to be paid from the date of prepayment to and including the first due date within twenty-four months of the anticipated repayment date of the 2024-1CTower Securities, over (ii) that portion of the principal balance prepaid on the date of such prepayment. With respect to the 2024-2CTower Securities, the prepayment consideration consists of any amount as would compensate the Purchaser for any loss, cost or expense incurred as a result of the portion of the principal balance of the $620.0 million loan being prepaid, calculated in accordance with the formula set forth in a written notice delivered to the Company.

To the extent that the loans corresponding to the 2024 Tower Securities are not fully repaid by the applicable anticipated repayment date, the applicable interest rate will increase by the greater of (i) 5% and (ii) the amount, if any, by which the sum of (x) the ten-yearU.S. treasury rate plus (y) the credit-based spread for such component (as set forth in the Eleventh Loan Supplement) plus (z) 5%, exceeds such interest rate. Except as set forth herein, all other material terms and conditions of the Mortgage Loan remain unchanged.

Relationships

The Company and certain of its affiliates have previously entered into commercial financial arrangements with each of the Initial Purchasers, and/or their respective affiliates, and each of these entities and/or its affiliates has in the past provided financial, advisory, investment banking and other services to the Company and its affiliates, including serving (1) as a lender and/or in other related capacities in connection with the Senior Credit Agreement and the various term loans and revolving credit facility under the Senior Credit Agreement, (2) as a book runner and/or as an initial purchaser for the Company's various series of Secured Tower Revenue Securities and (3) as a book runner and/or an initial purchaser for the Company's various series of Senior Notes. Certain of the Initial Purchasers or their affiliates may hold from time to time a portion of the 2014-2CTower Securities, 2019-1CTower Securities and 2019-1RTower Securities, accordingly, may receive a portion of the net proceeds. In addition, certain of the Initial Purchasers or their affiliates serve in various roles under the Company's Senior Credit Agreement, including as lenders under the Revolving Credit Facility and, accordingly, may receive a portion of the net proceeds to the extent that a portion of the excess proceeds are used to repay amounts outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility.