Crescent Energy Company Announces Public Offering of Class A Common Stock
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HOUSTON, December 03, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Crescent Energy Company ("Crescent" or the "Company") (NYSE: CRGY) today announced the commencement of an underwritten public offering of 18,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share ("Class A common stock"), pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (the "Registration Statement") filed previously with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").
The Company intends to use the net proceeds it receives from the offering to fund a portion of the cash consideration for its recently announced acquisition of Ridgemar (Eagle Ford) LLC (the "Ridgemar Acquisition"), which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. The Ridgemar Acquisition is not contingent upon the completion of this offering and this offering is not contingent upon the completion of the Ridgemar Acquisition. If the Ridgemar Acquisition is not completed, the proceeds of this offering will be used to reduce the borrowings outstanding under our revolving credit facility or for general corporate purposes.
The Company expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 2,700,000 shares of Class A common stock at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions.
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, KKR Capital Markets LLC, Raymond James & Associates, Inc. and Evercore Group L.L.C. are serving as joint book-running managers for the offering. The offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the offering.
The proposed offering will be made only by means of a prospectus and a prospectus supplement. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus relating to the offering and final prospectus supplement, when available, may be obtained from: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 90 South 7th Street, 5th Floor, Minneapolis, MN 55402, at 800-645-3751 (option #5) or email a request to WFScustomerservice@wellsfargo.com, KKR Capital Markets LLC, 30 Hudson Yards, New York, New York 10001 or by telephone at (212) 750-8300, Raymond James & Associates, Inc., 880 Carillon Parkway, St. Petersburg, FL 33716, by telephone at (800) 248-8863 or by email at prospectus@raymondjames.com, or Evercore Group L.L.C., Attention: Equity Capital Markets, 55 East 52nd Street, 35th Floor, New York, New York 10055, by telephone at 888-474-0200 or by email at ecm.prospectus@evercore.com, or by accessing the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.