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Long-Term Debt
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Mar. 31, 2015
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Long-Term Debt
Amended Senior Credit Facility
On February 2, 2015, GCI Holdings, Inc. ("Holdings"), our wholly owned subsidiary, entered into a Fourth Amended and Restated Credit and Guarantee Agreement with MUFG Union Bank, N.A., Suntrust Bank, Bank of America, N.A., as documentation agent, and Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, as administrative agent ("Amended Senior Credit Facility"). The Amended Senior Credit Facility added a $275.0 million Term B loan to the existing Senior Credit Facility described in Note 6(c) of our December 31, 2014 annual report on Form 10-K. The interest rate under the Term B loan is London Interbank Offered Rate
("LIBOR") plus 3.75%, with a 1% LIBOR floor. The Term B loan requires principal payments of 0.25% of the original principal amount on the last day of each calendar quarter beginning June 30, 2015 with the full amount maturing on February 2, 2022 or December 3, 2020 if our Senior Notes due 2021 are not refinanced prior to such date. The interest rate, maturity, and other terms of the existing Senior Credit Facility as described in Note 6(c) of our December 31, 2014 annual report on Form 10-K did not change as a result of this amendment.
In connection with the Amended Senior Credit Facility, we paid loan fees and other expenses of $5.9 million that were deferred and are being amortized over the life of the Amended Senior Credit Facility.
Searchlight Note
On February 2, 2015, we sold an unsecured promissory note to Searchlight ALX, L.P. ("Searchlight") in the principal amount of $75.0 million that will mature on February 2, 2023 and bears interest at a rate of 7.5% per year ("Searchlight Note"). We may not prepay the Searchlight Note prior to February 2, 2019.
In conjunction with the Searchlight Note, we entered into a stock appreciation rights agreement pursuant to which we issued to Searchlight three million stock appreciation rights which entitles Searchlight to receive, upon exercise, an amount payable at our election in either cash or shares of GCI's Class A common stock equal in value to the excess of the fair market value of a share of GCI Class A common stock on the date of exercise over the price of $13.00. We allocated the $75.0 million in total proceeds received to the stock appreciation rights based on the fair value of the stock appreciation rights on the day of issuance with the remainder allocated to the Searchlight Note. The allocation resulted in a $21.7 million discount for the Searchlight Note that will be amortized over the term of the note using the effective interest method. Please see note 5 for additional information on the stock appreciation rights.
We have the option to pay the annual interest obligation on the Searchlight Note in cash or by capitalizing such interest and adding it to the outstanding principal amount of the note. If we elect to capitalize interest in a given year, we are also required to issue additional stock appreciation rights in the amount of four hundredths of a stock appreciation right for each dollar of interest being capitalized.
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