CVG Announces Successful Completion of Debt Refinancing Transactions
NEW ALBANY, OHIO, June 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Commercial Vehicle Group (together with its subsidiaries, the "Company" or "CVG") (NASDAQ:CVGI), a diversified industrial products and services company, today announced that on June 27, 2025 it had closed on $210 million in senior secured credit facilities, consisting of (i) a $95 million senior secured term loan facility (the "Term Loan") with TCW Asset Management Company LLC (together with certain of its affiliates, the "TCW Group"), as agent, and (ii) a $115 million senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility (the "ABL Facility" and together with the Term Loan, the "Senior Secured Credit Facilities") with Bank of America, N.A., as agent. The ABL Facility amended and restated the Company's existing senior secured revolving credit facility with Bank of America, N.A., as agent (the "Existing Facility"), and a portion of the proceeds of the Senior Secured Credit Facilities was used to refinance outstanding obligations under the Existing Facility in an aggregate principal amount of $120,100,000.
Andy Cheung, Chief Financial Officer, said, "We are pleased to announce the successful refinancing of our debt facilities maturing in 2027, which marks an important milestone as we continue to advance our strategic operational initiatives. The new facilities provide a long runway of funding certainty and increased financial flexibility as we look to drive further cost reductions, margin improvement, and overall operational efficiency. Moving forward, we remain committed to deleveraging the balance sheet through free cash generation and disciplined debt paydown."
Term Loan of $95 million
Obligations under the Term Loan will mature on June 27, 2030.
The Term Loan will have tiered interest costs based on the consolidated total leverage ratio ranging from SOFR plus 8.75% with a leverage ratio < 3.50x to SOFR plus 10.75% with a leverage ratio > 6.25x. The SOFR floor is 2.00%. The initial interest rate payable under the Term Loan is SOFR plus 9.75%.
Until June 28, 2028, voluntary prepayments of the Term Loan are subject to a premium, calculated as a percentage of the obligations so prepaid under the Term Loan, equal to (x) from June 27, 2025 until June 27, 2027, 4.00%, (y) from June 28, 2026 until June 27, 2028, 2.00% and (z) thereafter, none. The Term Loan is also subject to an excess cash flow sweep and certain other customary mandatory prepayment requirements.
The Term Loan will ...
