Arcos Dorados Prices $375 Mln Private Placement Of 6.625% Senior Notes Due 2023

(RTTNews) - Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. (ARCO) announced the pricing of $375 million of 6.625% Senior Notes due 2023. The Notes will be issued at a price of 100.909% and mature on September 27, 2023.

The company also expects to issue an additional $98.225 million of Notes in exchange for Arcos Dorados B.V.'s outstanding 7.50% Senior Notes due 2019 pursuant to the company's previously announced exchange offer.

The settlement of the Notes offering (including any Notes issued pursuant to the Exchange Offer) is expected to take place on September 27, 2013.

The company intends to use offering proceeds to pay the principal and premium in connection with the Company's previously announced tender offer to purchase 2019 Existing Notes, to repay indebtedness, to unwind a cross-currency interest rate swap and for general corporate purposes.