M&A
confidence high
sentiment neutral
materiality 0.70
Frontier revises Spirit merger proposal: $400M debt + 19% equity, no rights offering
Frontier Group Holdings, Inc.
- Frontier offers $400M second-lien takeback debt and 19% equity (~52.9M shares) to Spirit stakeholders.
- Proposal eliminates Spirit's $350M equity rights offering; $35M ERO breakup fee waived.
- Spirit counters with $600M first-lien debt and $35M breakup fee; Frontier rejects, sticks to original.
- No agreement reached; Spirit intends to advance standalone Chapter 11 restructuring.
- Correspondence shows unresolved differences on debt priority, break fee, and regulatory termination fee.