Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Announces Proposed Offering of Senior Secured Notes

NEW ALBANY, Ohio, June 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) (“A&F”) announced today that A&F’s indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Abercrombie & Fitch Management Co. (“A&F Management”), plans to offer, subject to market and other customary conditions, up to $300 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2025 (the “Senior Secured Notes”) in a private offering exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

The Senior Secured Notes will be guaranteed on a senior secured basis, jointly and severally, by A&F and each of the existing and future wholly-owned domestic restricted subsidiaries of A&F that guarantee or will guarantee A&F Management’s existing senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility (the “Amended ABL Facility”) or certain future capital markets indebtedness.

The Senior Secured Notes and the related guarantees will be secured by a first priority lien on certain of A&F Management’s, A&F’s and the other guarantors' real property, intellectual property, equipment, equity interests in A&F Management and the guarantors other than A&F, and general intangibles, subject to certain exceptions and permitted liens, and by a second priority lien on security interests in accounts and credit card receivables, inventory, deposit accounts, securities accounts, intercompany loans and related assets, which security interests will be junior to the security interests in such assets that secure the Amended ABL Facility.

A&F Management intends to use the net proceeds from the offering of the Senior Secured Notes to repay all outstanding borrowings under A&F Management’s existing senior secured term loan facility, to repay a portion of the outstanding borrowings under the Amended ABL Facility, and to pay fees and expenses in connection with such repayments and the offering of the Senior Secured Notes.

The Senior Secured Notes will be offered and sold only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act and outside the United States to non-U.S. persons in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act. The offering of the Senior Secured Notes has not been registered under the Securities Act or under any state securities laws, and the Senior Secured Notes may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and from applicable state securities laws.