Friday, July 18, 2008

Trina Prices, Market Slices (TSL)

This is the flush. The stock was recently at $28.00 after bottoming at $26.58. As we said when they announced the financing "Good idea, bad timing".
From the press release via Yahoo Finance:

Trina Solar Prices $120 Million of Convertible Senior Notes and Up to 4,073,194 American Depositary Shares
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The notes will pay interest semi-annually at the annual rate of 4.00% and will mature in July 2013. The notes will be convertible into ADSs at an initial conversation rate of 29.5159 ADSs per $1,000 principal amount of notes, subject to adjustment under certain circumstances, which is equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $33.88 per ADS. Holders of the notes may require Trina Solar to repurchase all or a portion of the notes in 2011. Holders of the notes may also require Trina Solar to repurchase all or a portion of the notes upon certain fundamental changes.

Trina Solar intends to use the net proceeds of the notes offering for the expansion of manufacturing lines for the production of silicon ingots, wafers, solar cells and solar modules, the purchase of raw materials, research and development and other general corporate purposes.

In connection with the notes offering, Trina Solar has entered into the ADS lending agreement with the ADS Borrower, pursuant to which Trina Solar will lend up to 4,073,194 ADSs to the ADS Borrower. Concurrently with the notes offering, the ADS Borrower will sell the borrowed ADSs pursuant to a separate prospectus supplement. 3,829,800 of the borrowed ADSs have been initially offered at $28.00 per ADS and the remaining borrowed ADSs will be subsequently sold at prevailing market prices at the time of sale or at negotiated prices. The sale of the borrowed ADSs is intended to facilitate privately negotiated transactions or short sales by which investors in the notes will hedge their investment in the notes. The ADS Borrower will be required to return the borrowed ADSs pursuant to the ADS lending agreement by the scheduled maturity date of the notes in July 2013. The ADS Borrower will receive all of the proceeds from the sale of the borrowed ADSs. Trina Solar will not receive any proceeds from the offering of the borrowed ADSs, but will receive a nominal lending fee from the ADS Borrower.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, ABN AMRO Bank N.V., London Branch, and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. act as joint bookrunners for the notes offering. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC acts as sole bookrunner for the ADS offering....

Here's the prospectus [424b5] (CIK:1382158):