Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. Announces Full Exercise of Option to Purchase Additional Shares in Secondary Offering

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Business Wire 8-Mar-2018 6:43 AM
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MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. (NYSE:PK) (Park or the Company) announced today that the underwriters exercised in full their option to purchase 5,171,929 additional shares of Parks common stock at an exercise price of $25.75 per share (before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions) in connection with the previously announced secondary offering of Parks common stock by HNA HLT Holdco I LLC (the Selling Stockholder), an affiliate of HNA Tourism Group Co., Ltd. (HNA). The closing of the option is expected to occur on March 9, 2018, concurrently with the closing of the offering and the previously announced repurchase by Park of 14,000,000 shares of common stock held by the Selling Stockholder, subject to the satisfaction of all closing conditions. Following the closing of the offering and the repurchase, HNA will no longer beneficially own any shares of Parks common stock.
Park did not offer any shares of common stock in the offering and will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the Selling Stockholder.
Barclays and J.P. Morgan are acting as joint book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters for the offering. UBS Investment Bank, Goldman Sachs& Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank Securities and Credit Suisse are also acting as joint book-running managers and underwriters for the offering. In addition, BofA Merrill Lynch is serving as an advisor to the Company in connection with the offering.
The offering of these securities is being made pursuant to an effective registration statement. This offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. A copy of the final prospectus relating to these securities may be obtained from: Barclays Capital Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, email: Barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com, telephone: (888) 603-5847, or J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, telephone: 1-866-803-9204. The final prospectus may also be accessed through the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About Park Hotels & Resorts Inc.
Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. (NYSE: PK) is the second largest publicly traded lodging real estate investment trust with a diverse portfolio of market-leading hotels and resorts with significant underlying real estate value. Parks portfolio currently consists of 55 premium-branded hotels and resorts with over 32,000 rooms located in prime U.S. and international markets with high barriers to entry.
Special Note About Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to Parks current expectations regarding the performance of its business, financial results, liquidity and capital resources, the effects of competition and the effects of future legislation or regulations and other non-historical statements. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and, in some cases, can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as the words outlook, believes, expects, potential, continues, may, will, should, could, seeks, projects, predicts, intends, plans, estimates, anticipates or the negative version of these words or other comparable words. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. These forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, expectations concerning the closing of the option. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. You should not put undue reliance on any forward-looking statements in this press release. Additional factors that could cause Parks results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements can be found under the sections entitled Forward-Looking Statements, Risk Factors and Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (or similar captions) in Parks Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, filed with the SEC, as such factors may be updated from time to time in Parks periodic reports or other filings with the SEC, which are accessible on the SECs website at www.sec.gov. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and Park undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any guidance or other forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as required by law.

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Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. Ian Weissman, 703-584-7441Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategyiweissman@pkhotelsandresorts.com
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