Luminar Improves Capital Structure with Repurchase of $50 Million in 2026 Convertible Senior Notes
Luminar Technologies (NASDAQ:LAZR), a leading global automotive technology company, today announced it has entered into separate, individually negotiated private agreements with certain holders of its outstanding 1.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 to acquire $50 million in aggregate principal amount of notes through repurchases for approximately $30 million in cash and exchanges for 1.1 million in newly issued shares of common stock. The repurchase transactions are being funded by the proceeds from the initial issuance of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock announced by Luminar on May 21, 2025.
"Earlier this week, we announced a significant capital commitment from two institutional investors and indicated that would be used to continue to improve our capital structure and liquidity profile. Today, we are doing just that, retiring a substantial amount of debt that would have otherwise matured next year," said Tom Fennimore, Luminar's Chief Financial Officer. "We will remain opportunistic in using all of our available tools to further reduce our debt and extend our liquidity runway in order to realize our long-term value."
Following the consummation of the exchange transactions, approximately $135 million in aggregate principal amount of the 2026 convertible notes will remain outstanding, marking meaningful progress by Luminar over the past year to reduce the outstanding amount of its 2026 debt. The combination of the transactions this week demonstrate Luminar's commitment to improving its capital structure and ensuring sufficient financial runway to execute its business plan.
About Luminar
Luminar is a global automotive technology company ushering in a new era of vehicle safety and autonomy. For the past decade, Luminar has built an advanced hardware and software/AI platform to enable its various partners, ranging from Volvo Cars and Mercedes-Benz to NVIDIA and Mobileye, to develop and deploy the world's most advanced passenger vehicles. Following the launch of the Volvo EX90 as the first global production vehicle to standardize its technology, Luminar is poised to lead the industry in enabling next-generation safety and autonomous capabilities for global production vehicles. For more information, please visit www.luminartech.com.
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