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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-085469"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000912463"
company_name: "GUESS INC"
filed_at: "2024-04-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T03:13:28.100231+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Guess completes acquisition of rag & bone for $57.1M, expands credit facility to $200M

## Summary
- Guess? contributed $57.1M to acquire rag & bone; owns all operating assets and jointly owns IP with WHP Global.
- Existing ABL credit facility expanded by $50M to $200M total borrowing capacity in connection with the acquisition.
- Exchanged $14.6M of 2.00% convertible notes due 2024 for $12.1M of additional 3.75% notes due 2028.
- Hedge and warrant transactions entered, each covering ~0.5M shares of common stock, to offset dilution from new notes.
- Additional 2028 notes initially convertible into max ~644,595 shares; warrants on max ~991,684 shares at strike ~$41.37.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-085469
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000912463
- company_name: GUESS INC
- filed_at: 2024-04-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 2.03, 3.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000119312524085469/0001193125-24-085469-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000119312524085469/d510308d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  GUESS INC amended credit facility of total borrowing capacity thereunder is up to $200,000,000 with Bank of America, N.A. at Term CORRA replaced Canadian BA Rate.
  - Instrument: credit facility
  - Principal: total borrowing capacity thereunder is up to $200,000,000
  - Counterparty: Bank of America, N.A.
  - Rate: Term CORRA replaced Canadian BA Rate
  - Event: amendment
  source text: Amendment No. 4, among other things, provides for a $50,000,000 increase in borrowing capacity under the credit facility through utilization of the credit facility’s accordion feature, such that total borrowing capacity thereunder is up to $200,000,000
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000119312524085469/0001193125-24-085469-index.htm
- Debt Financings
  GUESS INC incurred convertible notes of approximately $12.1 million with holder of 2.00% convertible senior notes due 2024 at 3.75% maturing 2028.
  - Instrument: convertible notes
  - Principal: approximately $12.1 million
  - Counterparty: holder of 2.00% convertible senior notes due 2024
  - Rate: 3.75%
  - Maturity: 2028
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: the Company exchanged approximately $14.6 million in aggregate principal amount of the 2024 Notes for approximately $12.1 million in aggregate principal amount of additional 3.75% convertible senior notes due 2028 (the “Additional 2028 Notes”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000119312524085469/0001193125-24-085469-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  GUESS INC entered into Warrant Transaction with the Option Counterparty (effective 2024-03-28).
  - Action: entry
  - Counterparty: the Option Counterparty
  - Effective: 2024-03-28
  source text: Separately, the Company also entered into a privately negotiated warrant transaction (the “Warrant Transaction”) with the Option Counterparty relating to, subject to anti-dilution adjustments, approximately 0.5 million shares of the Company’s common stock, with a strike price of approximately $41.37 per share.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000119312524085469/0001193125-24-085469-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  GUESS INC entered into Convertible Note Hedge Transaction with a financial institution (effective 2024-03-28).
  - Action: entry
  - Counterparty: a financial institution
  - Effective: 2024-03-28
  source text: On March 28, 2024, the Company entered into a convertible note hedge transaction (the “Hedge Transaction”) with a financial institution (the “Option Counterparty”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000119312524085469/0001193125-24-085469-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  GUESS INC amended Amendment No. 4 with Bank of America, N.A., as agent and a lender and the other lenders party thereto (effective 2024-04-02).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: credit facility
  - Counterparty: Bank of America, N.A., as agent and a lender and the other lenders party thereto
  - Effective: 2024-04-02
  source text: On April 2, 2024, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries amended (such amendment, “Amendment No. 4”) their amended and restated senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility with Bank of America, N.A., as agent and a lender and the other lenders party thereto
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000119312524085469/0001193125-24-085469-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  GUESS INC entered into Exchange and Subscription Agreement with a holder of its 2.00% convertible senior notes due 2024 valued at approximately $12.1 million in aggregate principal amount of additional 3.75% convertible senior not (effective 2024-04-02).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: a holder of its 2.00% convertible senior notes due 2024
  - Value: approximately $12.1 million in aggregate principal amount of additional 3.75% convertible senior not
  - Effective: 2024-04-02
  source text: On April 2, 2024, Guess?, Inc. (the “Company”) completed its previously announced separate, privately negotiated exchange and subscription agreement (the “Exchange and Subscription Agreement”) with a holder of its 2.00% convertible senior notes due 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000119312524085469/0001193125-24-085469-index.htm

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