GoDaddy Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation, Financial Statements and Exhibits
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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Credit Agreement Refinancing and Extension
On December 16, 2024, Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC and GD Finance Co, LLC (each, a direct or indirect subsidiary of GoDaddy Inc. and together, the “Borrowers”) entered into a Twelfth Amendment (the “Twelfth Amendment”) to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 15, 2017 (as amended by Amendment No. 1, dated as of November 22, 2017, as further amended by the Joinder and Amendment Agreement, dated as of June 4, 2019, as further amended by Amendment No. 3, dated as of October 3, 2019, as further amended by the Joinder and Fourth Amendment Agreement, dated as of August 10, 2020, as further amended by the Fifth Amendment Agreement, dated as of March 8, 2021, as further amended by the Joinder and Sixth Amendment Agreement, dated as of November 10, 2022, as further amended by the Seventh Amendment Agreement, dated as of May 5, 2023, as further amended by the Eighth Amendment Agreement, dated as of July 19, 2023, as further amended by the Ninth Amendment Agreement, dated as of August 15, 2023, as further amended by the Tenth Amendment Agreement, dated as of January 22, 2024, as further amended by the Eleventh Amendment Agreement, dated May 31, 2024, and as further amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, refinanced or replaced from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), by and among the Borrowers, Desert Newco, LLC, the lending institutions from time to time party thereto, and Royal Bank of Canada as the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Swingline Lender and a Letter of Credit Issuer. Capitalized terms used herein, but not otherwise defined herein are as defined in the Credit Agreement as amended by the Twelfth Amendment.
The Twelfth Amendment provides for a new $1,463 million tranche of term loans maturing in 2029 (the “Replacement Term Loans”), the proceeds of which were used to refinance all outstanding Existing Tranche B-6 Term Loans. The amortization rate for the Replacement Term Loans is 1.00% per annum and the first installment shall be payable on or about December 31, 2024. Pursuant to the Twelfth Amendment, the Applicable Margin is (i) 1.75% for the Replacement Term Loans that are SOFR Loans and (ii) 0.75% for the Replacement Term Loans that are ABR Loans.
The foregoing description of the Twelfth Amendment is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Twelfth Amendment, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant
The information set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| GODADDY INC. | ||||||||
| Date: | December 16, 2024 | /s/ Mark McCaffrey | ||||||
| Mark McCaffrey | ||||||||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||||||||