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by | March 26, 2021 |

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March 2, 2020
$1bn Convertible Offering
Size: $1bn + 15% shoe
Offering Type: 144A
Execution Structure:: 1 Day Marketed
Maturity: 5 Years
Structure: Provisional Call with Make-Whole in 3 Years
Coupon: 0.125%
Premium: 50%
Effective Premium: 100% with Bond Hedge + Warrants
Financial Advisor: Matthews South
Sole Bookrunner: Goldman Sachs

Case Study: $1bn Square Convertible

Convertible Preparation Process

  • Matthews South ran the structuring, documentation and preparation process and acted as an extension of the company’s finance team

Designed Call Spread Bid Process to Optimize Terms

  • Recommended adding financial institutions that have displayed aggressiveness in other bid situations
  • Call spread document included features that gave the company additional protection and transparency

Make-Whole Table

  • Make-Whole tables are increasingly important to issuers given provisionally callable bonds with make-whole, but issuers lack the tools to assess bank-proposed tables
  • Matthews South oversaw the table creation to ensure fairness to the company

Tactics in Choppy Markets

  • Matthews South advised on terms for launch range that balanced need to attract investor interest against risk of additional investor leverage in choppy market conditions
  • Mid-point pricing evidences success of approach

Marketing

  • Matthews South advised the company throughout the day of execution to help ensure that the security was priced efficiently
  • Conversion premium achieved was one of the highest for a technology company in the past few years

Additional Deals for Square:

  • May 2018: $863mm Convertible + Bond Hedge / Warrants
  • Nov 2020: $1.15bn Convertible + Bond Hedge / Warrants

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