BRP Inc. ("BRP" or the "Company") announced today the closing of the previously announced bought deal secondary offering pursuant to which Bain Capital Luxembourg Investments S.à r.l. ("Bain"), Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec ("CDPQ") and other selling shareholders (collectively, the "Selling Shareholders") sold an aggregate of 8,000,000 subordinate voting shares of BRP ("Subordinate Voting Shares") at a price of $27.85 per Subordinate Voting Share for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $223 million to the Selling Shareholders. 5,986,735 of the Subordinate Voting Shares were sold by Bain, 1,279,097 of the Subordinate Voting Shares were sold by CDPQ and 734,168 of the Subordinate Voting Shares were sold by the other selling shareholders. The Company did not receive any of the proceeds from this offering.
Following this offering, Beaudier Inc. and 4338618 Canada Inc., Bain and CDPQ hold 41,237,476, 40,145,521 and 7,640,347 multiple voting shares of BRP ("Multiple Voting Shares" and, collectively with the Subordinate Voting Shares, the "Shares"), respectively, representing approximately 34.9%, 34.0% and 6.5%, respectively, of the Company's issued and outstanding Shares and approximately 43.9%, 42.8% and 8.1%, respectively, of the voting power attached to all outstanding Shares.
The Subordinate Voting Shares were offered by an underwriting syndicate led by BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., RBC Dominion Securities Inc., UBS Securities Canada Inc. and Citigroup Global Markets Canada Inc., acting as joint bookrunners, and including CIBC World Markets Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc., Scotia Capital Inc., National Bank Financial Inc. and Robert W. Baird & Co.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of the Company in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and other applicable securities laws.
