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Issuer:     AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC (APEI)
CIK:        0001201792
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-12-28T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-22-130547
Event type: debt
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 1.01, 3.02, 3.03, 5.03, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

APEI sells $40M Series A Senior Preferred Stock to repay debt, reduce term loans to $100M
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- Sold 400 shares of Series A Senior Preferred at $100,000 each to affiliates of Redwood Capital Management and MSD Partners.
- Dividend rate: Term SOFR + 10%, increasing by 2% at 30 months and 0.5% quarterly thereafter; capped at SOFR + 25%.
- Use of proceeds: $30M plus cash to repay ~$65M of term loans, reducing outstanding to ≤$100M; remaining $10M for general corporate purposes.
- Preferred stock is perpetual, non-convertible, ranks senior to common, and has no voting rights except as required by law.
- Unregistered sale relies on Section 4(a)(2) exemption; issuance includes a Certificate of Designation with default provisions including 6% dividend rate increase.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1201792/000110465922130547/0001104659-22-130547-index.htm
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  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-130547

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