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Debt
6 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Debt
Note 8 — Debt

On March 27, 2015, UGI Utilities entered into an unsecured revolving credit agreement (the “UGI Utilities 2015 Credit Agreement”) with a group of banks providing for borrowings up to $300 (including a $100 sublimit for letters of credit). Concurrently with entering into the UGI Utilities 2015 Credit Agreement, UGI Utilities terminated its then-existing $300 revolving credit agreement dated as of May 25, 2011. Under the UGI Utilities 2015 Credit Agreement, UGI Utilities may borrow at various prevailing market interest rates, including LIBOR and the banks’ prime rate, plus a margin. The margin on such borrowings ranges from 0.0% to 1.75% and is based upon the credit ratings of certain indebtedness of UGI Utilities. The UGI Utilities 2015 Credit Agreement requires UGI Utilities not to exceed a ratio of Consolidated Debt to Consolidated Total Capital, as defined, of 0.65 to 1.0. The UGI Utilities 2015 Credit Agreement is currently scheduled to expire in March 2016, but may be extended by UGI Utilities to March 2020 if on or before March 25, 2016, the Company satisfies certain requirements relating to approval by the PUC. The Company intends to seek such regulatory approval.
In anticipation of the Company’s pending acquisition of Total’s retail LPG distribution business in France (“Totalgaz”) expected to occur during the third quarter of Fiscal 2015, on April 30, 2015, UGI France, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of UGI, entered into a new Senior Facilities Agreement with a consortium of banks (the “2015 Senior Facilities Agreement”) having a final maturity date of April 30, 2020. UGI France expects to draw under the Senior Facilities Agreement substantially concurrent with the closing of the pending Totalgaz acquisition. The 2015 Senior Facilities Agreement, when drawn, will consist of a €600 variable-rate term loan and also a €60 revolving credit facility. The term loan proceeds from the 2015 Senior Facilities Agreement will be used to (1) fund a portion of the acquisition of Totalgaz, including related fees and expenses; (2) prepay €342 principal amount, plus accrued interest, outstanding under Antargaz’ 2011 Senior Facilities Agreement due March 2016 (the “2011 Senior Facilities Agreement”); (3) settle Antargaz’ existing pay-fixed, receive-variable interest rate swaps associated with the 2011 Senior Facilities Agreement; and (4) for general corporate purposes. As of March 31, 2015, the fair value of the interest rate swaps was a loss of $10.3. UGI France does not intend to draw on either the term loan or the revolving credit facility until the closing date of the Totalgaz acquisition, which is required to occur no later than June 30, 2015, pursuant to the terms of the 2015 Senior Facilities Agreement.
Borrowings under the 2015 Senior Facilities Agreement €600 term loan and the €60 revolving credit facility will bear interest at rates per annum comprising the aggregate of the applicable margin and the associated euribor rate. The margin on such borrowings (which ranges from 1.60% to 2.70% for the term loan, and 1.45% to 2.55% for the revolving credit facility) will be dependent upon the ratio of UGI France’s consolidated total net debt to earnings before interest expense, income taxes, depreciation, and amortization (“EBITDA”), each as defined in the 2015 Senior Facilities Agreement. UGI France expects to enter into pay-fixed, receive-variable interest rate swaps to fix the underlying euribor rate of interest on the term loan.
Principal amounts to be outstanding under the 2015 Senior Facilities Agreement term loan will be due as follows: €60 due April 30, 2018; €60 due April 30, 2019; and €480 million due April 30, 2020.The 2015 Senior Facilities Agreement restricts the ability of UGI France to, among other things, incur additional indebtedness, make investments, incur liens, and effect mergers, consolidations and sales of assets, and requires UGI France and its consolidated subsidiaries to maintain a ratio of total net debt to EBITDA, each as defined in the 2015 Senior Facilities Agreement, that shall not exceed (a) 3.75 to 1.00 from the closing date of the pending Totalgaz acquisition to September 30, 2015, and (b) 3.50 to 1.00 from October 1, 2015, to the final maturity date. UGI France will generally be permitted to make restricted payments, such as dividends, if no event of default exists or would exist upon payment of such dividend.