Sabre Corporation Announces Early Tender Results of Previously Announced Cash Tender Offers by Sabre GLBL Inc.

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Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR) announced early tender results for its cash tender offers by subsidiary Sabre GLBL Inc. The tender offers target three series of senior secured notes, with an Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount of $336.375 million. As of June 3, 2025, the early tender deadline, the 8.625% Senior Secured Notes due 2027 saw 85.77% participation ($563.327 million tendered), the 7.375% Notes due 2025 had 96.43% participation ($22.559 million), and the 11.250% Notes due 2027 had 69.82% participation ($31.986 million). Due to oversubscription, only the 8.625% Notes will be accepted with a proration factor of approximately 57.75%. The total consideration for the 8.625% Notes is $1,035.00 per $1,000 principal amount, including a $50 early tender premium. Payment is expected on June 4, 2025.

Positive

• High participation rates across all note series indicate strong investor interest, with 85.77% participation in the primary 8.625% Notes
• The tender offer helps Sabre manage its debt structure and potentially reduce interest expenses
• Total consideration of $1,035 per $1,000 principal amount for the 8.625% Notes provides a premium to noteholders

Negative

• Due to oversubscription, only 8.625% Notes will be accepted, excluding other note series
• The 57.75% proration factor means many investors will have their tender requests partially rejected
• The company will still maintain significant debt levels even after the tender offer

Insights

Financial Analyst

Sabre's early tender for $325M of its 8.625% Notes improves debt profile through selective debt reduction at a premium price.

Sabre GLBL's tender offer results demonstrate strong bondholder response with 85.77% of the 8.625% Senior Secured Notes due 2027 tendered. The company is repurchasing $325 million in principal amount of these notes at a 3.5% premium ($1,035 per $1,000 face value), representing a total consideration of $336.375 million excluding accrued interest.

The high participation rate indicates bondholders' willingness to exit their positions despite the premium pricing, suggesting potential market concerns about Sabre's long-term debt outlook. With the tender offer oversubscribed, Sabre implemented a 57.75% proration factor for the 8.625% Notes, while declining to purchase any of the 7.375% Notes due 2025 or 11.250% Notes due 2027 despite high tender rates (96.43% and 69.82% respectively).

This selective approach to debt reduction indicates a strategic focus on addressing the 8.625% Notes specifically. By prioritizing these notes despite their higher premium cost over the 11.250% Notes (which were offered at par value), Sabre appears to be optimizing its debt maturity profile rather than simply minimizing interest expenses.

The tender offer represents a deliberate liability management exercise that will modestly improve Sabre's debt profile by reducing approximately 49.5% of the outstanding 8.625% Notes. This transaction likely aims to demonstrate financial flexibility to the market while managing future refinancing risks, though it comes at the cost of paying a premium to bondholders.

SOUTHLAKE, Texas, June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre Corporation ("Sabre") (Nasdaq: SABR) announced today the early tender results of the previously announced cash tender offers (the "Tender Offers") by Sabre GLBL Inc. ("Sabre GLBL"), its wholly owned subsidiary, for Sabre GLBL's securities set forth in the table below (collectively, the "Securities"). The Tender Offers will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on June 17, 2025. As the Aggregate Purchase Price (as defined below) of all Securities validly tendered and not validly withdrawn in the Tender Offers at or prior to the Early Tender Deadline (as defined below) exceeds $336.375 million, no Securities tendered after the Early Tender Deadline will be accepted for purchase. 

The Tender Offers are being made pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the offers to purchase, dated May 20, 2025 (the "Offer to Purchase").

As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 3, 2025 (such date and time, the "Early Tender Deadline"), according to information provided to D.F. King & Co., Inc., the tender and information agent for the Tender Offers, the aggregate principal amount of each series of Securities listed in the table below has been validly tendered and not validly withdrawn in the Tender Offers. Withdrawal rights for the Securities expired at the Early Tender Deadline and, accordingly, any Securities that were validly tendered may no longer be withdrawn except where additional withdrawal rights are required by law.

Title of Security	CUSIP/ISIN Number	Principal Amount Outstanding	Acceptance Priority Level(1)	Principal Amount Tendered at Early Tender Deadline	Percentage of Outstanding Securities Tendered	Total Consideration (2)(3)	Aggregate Principal Amount Expected to be Accepted for Purchase	Aggregate Purchase Price(3)
8.625% Senior Secured Notes due 2027	78573NAJ1 U86043AG8 US78573NAJ19 USU86043AG86	$ 656,783,000	1	$563,327,000	85.77 %	$   1,035.00	$ 325,000,000	$336,375,000
7.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2025	78573NAF9 U86043AD5 US78573NAF96 USU86043AD55	$ 23,393,000	2	$22,559,000	96.43 %	$   1,001.25	$          0	$             0
11.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2027	78573NAH5 U86043AF0 US78573NAH52 USU86043AF04	$ 45,814,000	3	$31,986,000	69.82 %	$   1,000.00	$          0	$             0

(1)	Subject to the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount and proration, the principal amount of Securities expected to be accepted for purchase in the Tender Offers has been determined in accordance with the applicable acceptance priority level (in numerical priority order) specified in this column.
(2)	Includes Early Tender Premium (as defined below).
(3)	Does not include accrued and unpaid interest on the Securities, which will also be payable as provided herein.

The Tender Offers remain subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions described in the Offer to Purchase, including the financing for the Tender Offers. Such conditions may be waived by Sabre GLBL in its sole discretion, subject to applicable law. Any waiver of a condition by Sabre GLBL will not constitute a waiver of any other condition. Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of such conditions and as described in the Offer to Purchase, Sabre GLBL is expected to make payment on June 4, 2025 (such date and time, as it may be extended, the "Early Settlement Date") for the Securities that (i) were validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Tender Deadline and (ii) are accepted for purchase on the Early Settlement Date.

As the Aggregate Purchase Price of all validly tendered and not validly withdrawn 8.625% Senior Secured Notes due 2027 (the "8.625% Notes") exceeds $336.375 million, no validly tendered 7.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 or 11.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2027 will be accepted for purchase, and the 8.625% Notes will be accepted on a pro rata basis and will be subject to a proration factor of approximately 57.75%. Securities tendered and not purchased on the Early Settlement Date will be returned to holders of Securities (the "Holders") promptly after the Early Settlement Date. The consideration to be paid for the 8.625% Notes accepted for purchase on the Early Settlement Date per $1,000 principal amount of such Securities is the amount set forth in the table above under the heading "Total Consideration." The amounts set forth in the table above under "Total Consideration" include an early tender premium of $50 per $1,000 principal amount of 8.625% Notes accepted for purchase (the "Early Tender Premium"). All Holders of 8.625% Notes accepted for purchase will also receive accrued interest from, and including, the most recent interest payment date preceding the Early Settlement Date to, but not including, the Early Settlement Date.

Sabre GLBL expressly reserves the right, in its sole discretion, subject to applicable law, to: (i) terminate any or all of the Tender Offers and not accept for purchase any of the Securities not theretofore accepted for purchase in the terminated Tender Offer or Tender Offers, (ii) waive any and all of the conditions to the Tender Offers on or prior to the time the Securities are accepted for purchase in any or all of the Tender Offers, (iii) extend the Early Tender Deadline or the time at which the Tender Offers are scheduled to expire to a later date and time, (iv) increase or decrease the maximum Aggregate Purchase Price, or (v) otherwise amend the terms and conditions of the Tender Offers.

The aggregate amount that all Holders are entitled to receive for their Securities that are accepted for purchase by Sabre GLBL in the Tender Offers, excluding accrued interest, is referred to as the "Aggregate Purchase Price." "Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount" refers to the maximum principal amount of Securities that can be purchased for cash in the Tender Offers without resulting in the Aggregate Purchase Price exceeding $336.375 million.

Information Relating to the Tender Offers

The complete terms and conditions of the Tender Offers are set forth in the Offer to Purchase. BofA Securities is the dealer manager for the Tender Offers. Investors with questions regarding the Tender Offers may contact BofA Securities, Bank of America Tower, 620 South Tryon Street, 20th Floor, Charlotte, North Carolina 28255, attention: Debt Advisory, collect: (980) 388-3646, toll-free: (888) 292-0070, email: debt_advisory@bofa.com. D.F. King & Co., Inc. is the tender and information agent for the Tender Offers. Copies of the Offer to Purchase and any related offer documents may be obtained by contacting D.F. King & Co., Inc. by phone at (212) 269-5550 (New York) or (800) 515-4479 (toll-free) or by email at sabre@dfking.com.

None of Sabre GLBL, Sabre, their affiliates, their respective boards of directors and stockholders, the dealer manager, the tender and information agent or Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as trustee for the Securities, are making any recommendation as to whether Holders should tender any Securities in response to the Tender Offers. Holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender any of their Securities, and, if so, the principal amount of Securities to tender.

This press release is for informational purposes only and is not an offer to buy or a solicitation of an offer to sell any of the Securities, and the Tender Offers do not constitute offers to buy or the solicitation of offers to sell Securities in any jurisdiction or in any circumstances in which such offers are unlawful. The full details of the Tender Offers, including complete instructions on how to tender Securities, are included in the Offer to Purchase. Holders are strongly encouraged to read carefully the Offer to Purchase because it will contain important information.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements herein are forward-looking statements about trends, future events, uncertainties and our plans and expectations of what may happen in the future. Any statements that are not historical or current facts are forward-looking statements. In many cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as "expect," "guidance," "outlook," "trend," "pro forma," "on course," "on track," "target," "potential," "benefit," "goal," "believe," "plan," "confident," "anticipate," "indicate," "trend," "position," "optimistic," "will," "forecast," "continue," "strategy," "estimate," "project," "may," "should," "would," "intend," or the negative of these terms, where applicable, or other comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. More information about potential risks and uncertainties that could materially affect our business and results of operations is included in the "Risk Factors" and "Forward-Looking Statements" sections in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 7, 2025, our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 20, 2025 and in our other filings with the SEC, as well as other risks and uncertainties specified in the "Certain Significant Considerations" section of the Offer to Purchase. We cannot guarantee future events, including financing of the Tender Offers and successful completion of the Tender Offers, outlook, guidance, results, actions, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Unless required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect circumstances or events after the date they are made.

About Sabre

Sabre Corporation is a leading technology company that takes on the biggest opportunities and solves the most complex challenges in travel. Sabre harnesses speed, scale and insights to build tomorrow's technology today – empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, with employees across the world, Sabre serves customers in more than 160 countries globally.

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FAQ

What is the total value of Sabre's (SABR) tender offer in 2025?

Sabre's tender offer has an Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount of $336.375 million, focusing on three series of senior secured notes.

What is the acceptance rate for Sabre's (SABR) 8.625% Notes in the 2025 tender offer?

Due to oversubscription, the 8.625% Notes will be accepted with a proration factor of approximately 57.75% of tendered amounts.

What is the premium being offered for Sabre's (SABR) 8.625% Notes in the tender offer?

The total consideration is $1,035.00 per $1,000 principal amount, which includes an early tender premium of $50.

When is the settlement date for Sabre's (SABR) 2025 tender offer?

The Early Settlement Date is expected to be June 4, 2025, for securities that were validly tendered and not withdrawn by the Early Tender Deadline.

Which series of notes were included in Sabre's (SABR) 2025 tender offer?

The tender offer included three series: 8.625% Notes due 2027, 7.375% Notes due 2025, and 11.250% Notes due 2027, but only the 8.625% Notes will be accepted.