Fairfax India Amends Credit Agreement

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TORONTO, Feb. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fairfax India Holdings Corporation (“Fairfax India” or the “Company”) (TSX: FIH.U) announces that, it has amended its existing credit agreement (“Credit Agreement”) with a syndicate of lenders to (i) provide for the issuance of letters of credit under its revolving credit facility (for the term of the Credit Agreement), and (ii) increase the borrowing limit of its revolving credit facility from $175.0 million to $250.0 million, which shall be reduced to $175.0 million over a period of approximately eighteen months, in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement. All other terms of the Credit Agreement remain unchanged. At December 31, 2024, the revolving credit facility was undrawn.

As previously disclosed, the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, has entered into an agreement to acquire an additional 10% equity interest in Bangalore International Airport Limited (“BIAL”) from Siemens Project Ventures GmbH, part of Siemens Financial Services (“Siemens”) for, in aggregate, $255.0 million (the “Purchase Price”). The Purchase Price is payable in three installments, with the initial installment ($84.2 million) to be paid on the closing date of the BIAL transaction, which as previously announced, is to occur in Q1 2025. The second and third installments (collectively, the “Deferred Purchase Price”) are to be paid on August 31, 2025 (as to $94.4 million) and July 31, 2026 (as to $76.5 million), respectively. The Company’s wholly owned subsidiary is required to deliver on the closing of the BIAL transaction a letter of credit in favour of Siemens representing the Deferred Purchase Price, being, in aggregate, $170.9 million. The Siemens letter of credit expires on September 30, 2026. The amendments to the Company’s Credit Agreement are intended to facilitate the issuance of the letter of credit to Siemens on the closing of the BIAL transaction while ensuring that the Company maintains its liquidity for the period the letter of credit is outstanding.

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Fairfax India is an investment holding company whose objective is to achieve long-term capital appreciation, while preserving capital, by investing in public and private equity securities and debt instruments in India and Indian businesses or other businesses with customers, suppliers or business primarily conducted in, or dependent on, India.

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