Forterra Announces Secondary Offering of 10,000,000 Shares

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Forterra, Inc. (the “Company” or “Forterra”) (NASDAQ: FRTA) announced today that the Company’s largest stockholder, an affiliate of Lone Star Funds (the “Selling Stockholder”), intends to offer for sale in an underwritten secondary offering 10,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company.  The Selling Stockholder will also grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company.  The Selling Stockholder will receive all of the proceeds from the sale of shares in this offering.  No shares are being sold by the Company. 

Credit Suisse, BofA Securities and Citigroup are acting as joint book-running managers and underwriters for the offering.

The Company has filed a shelf registration statement (including a prospectus) on Form S-3 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) for the offering to which this communication relates.  The registration statement was declared effective on December 27, 2019.  Before you invest, you should read the base prospectus in that registration statement, the accompanying prospectus supplement and other documents the Company has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Company and this offering.  You may obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.  Alternatively, copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus relating to the offering, when available, may be obtained from:

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC By mail: Attn: Prospectus Department, 6933 Louis Stephens Drive, Morrisville, North Carolina 27560, United States By phone: [phone] By e-mail: [e-mail]

BofA Securities NC1-004-03-43 200 North College Street, 3rd Floor Charlotte, NC 28255-0001  Attention: Prospectus Department Email: [e-mail]

Citigroup c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions 1155 Long Island Avenue Edgewood, New York 11717  telephone: [phone]

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of any offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or 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 jurisdiction.