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Long-Term Debt | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2017
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Long-term Debt [Text Block] |
5. | LONG-TERM DEBT
Long-term debt consists of the following:
|  | March 31, 2017 |  | December 31, 2016
|  | (in millions)
Existing Revolving Credit Facility |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |
7.75% Notes due 2019 |  | 200.0 |  |  | 200.0 |
6.625% Notes due 2022 |  | 550.0 |  |  | 550.0 |
6.50% Notes due 2027 |  | 500.0 |  |  | — |
6.25% Notes due 2025 |  | 700.0 |  |  | — |
6.25% Notes due 2021 |  | 400.0 |  |  | 400.0 |
5.125% Notes due 2019 |  | 200.0 |  |  | 200.0 |
Foreign credit facilities |  | 60.9 |  |  | 60.4 |
Capital lease obligations |  | 5.4 |  |  | 5.5 |
Total debt |  | 2,616.3 |  |  | 1,415.9 |
Less: Current portion of long-term debt |  | 3.4 |  |  | 3.3 |
Long-term debt |  | 2,612.9 |  |  | 1,412.6 |
Less: Debt issuance costs |  | 31.4 |  |  | 11.7 |
Long-term debt, net |  | $ | 2,581.5 |  |  | $ | 1,400.9 |
Existing Revolving Credit Facility As of March 31, 2017, the existing revolving credit facility under the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of January 9, 2004, amended and restated as of September 13, 2013 (Existing Revolving Credit Facility) provided up to $523.5 million of revolving bank financing commitments through September 13, 2018. At March 31, 2017, we had $507.3 million available under the Existing Revolving Credit Facility. This availability reflects a reduction of $16.2 million for standby letters of credit issued against the facility. As discussed in New Senior Secured Credit Facilities below, the Existing Revolving Credit Facility was replaced on April 6, 2017. 6.50% Notes due 2027 and 6.25% Notes due 2025 On March 23, 2017, we issued $700.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.25% senior notes due 2025 and $500.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.50% senior notes due 2027 (the Notes). Proceeds from the Notes were used primarily to fund the cash consideration related to AAM's acquisition of MPG, related fees and expenses, refinancing certain existing indebtedness of MPG and borrowings under the Existing Revolving Credit Facility together with borrowings under the New Senior Secured Credit Facilities. We paid debt issuance costs of $19.6 million in the first quarter of 2017 related to the Notes. New Senior Secured Credit Facilities In connection with our acquisition of MPG (the Acquisition) on April 6, 2017, Holdings and American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. (AAM, Inc.) entered into a credit agreement (the Credit Agreement), among AAM, Inc., as borrower, Holdings, each financial institution party thereto as a lender (the Lenders), and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, pursuant to which Holdings and certain of its restricted subsidiaries (including certain subsidiaries of MPG acquired as part of the Acquisition) are required to guarantee the borrowings of AAM, Inc. thereunder and Holdings, AAM, Inc. and certain of their restricted subsidiaries are required to pledge their assets (including, without limitation, after-acquired assets), subject to certain exceptions and limitations. In connection with the Credit Agreement, Holdings, AAM, Inc. and certain of their restricted subsidiaries entered into a Collateral Agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as collateral agent, and a Guarantee Agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent. Pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Lenders agreed to provide a $100.0 million term loan A facility (the Term Loan A Facility), a $1.55 billion term loan B facility (the Term Loan B Facility) and a $900 million multi-currency revolving credit facility (the Revolving Credit Facility, and together with the Term Loan A Facility and the Term Loan B Facility, the New Senior Secured Credit Facilities). The proceeds of the Term Loan A Facility and the Term Loan B Facility were used to finance a portion of the consideration for the Acquisition, pay transaction costs, redeem in full MPG Holdco I Inc.’s 7.375% Senior Notes due 2022, and repay the existing indebtedness of AAM, Inc. under its Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of January 9, 2004, amended and restated as of September 13, 2013 and as further amended, among AAM, Inc., as borrower, Holdings, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as Administrative Agent, and each financial institution party thereto as a lender, as well as repay existing indebtedness of MPG under its Credit Agreement, dated as of October 20, 2014 and as amended as of May 8, 2015, among MPG Holdco I Inc., as guarantor, MPG, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto, and each financial institution party thereto as a lender. The proceeds of the Revolving Credit Facility will be used for general corporate purposes. We paid debt issuance costs of $1.6 million in the first quarter of 2017 related to the New Senior Secured Credit Facilities. The Term Loan A Facility and the Revolving Credit Facility will mature on April 6, 2022, and the Term Loan B Facility will mature on April 6, 2024. Borrowings under the New Senior Secured Credit Facilities bear interest at rates based on the applicable Eurodollar rate or alternate base rate, as AAM may elect, in each case plus an applicable margin determined based on AAM’s total net leverage ratio. The alternate base rate is the greatest of (a) the JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. prime rate, (b) the Federal Reserve Bank of New York rate plus 0.50% and (c) the adjusted Eurodollar rate plus 1.00%. The applicable margin for Eurodollar-based loans under the New Senior Secured Credit Facilities will be between 1.25% and 2.25% with respect to any loan under the Term Loan A Facility, 2.25% with respect to any loan under the Term Loan B Facility, and between 2.00% and 3.00% with respect to any loan under the Revolving Credit Facility. The applicable margin for loans subject to alternate base rate will be between 0.25% and 1.25% with respect to any loan under the Term Loan A Facility, 1.25% with respect to any loan under the Term Loan B Facility, and between 1.00% and 2.00% with respect to any loan under the Revolving Credit Facility. The Credit Agreement requires certain mandatory prepayments of outstanding loans under the Term Loan A Facility and the Term Loan B Facility, subject to certain exceptions, based on the annual excess cash flow of Holdings and its restricted subsidiaries (with step-downs to 0% based upon the total net leverage ratio, and with no prepayment required if annual excess cash flow is under a specified minimum threshold), the net cash proceeds of certain asset sales and casualty and condemnation events, subject to reinvestment rights and certain other exceptions, and the net cash proceeds of any issuance of debt not otherwise permitted under the Credit Agreement. The Credit Agreement permits AAM, Inc. to incur incremental term loan borrowings and/or increase commitments under the Revolving Credit Facility, subject to certain limitations and the satisfaction of certain conditions, in an aggregate amount not to exceed (i) $600 million, plus (ii) certain voluntary prepayments, plus (iii) additional amounts subject to pro forma compliance with a first lien net leverage ratio for Holdings and its restricted subsidiaries. The Credit Agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants, including, among others, financial covenants based on total net leverage and cash interest expense coverage ratios and limitations on the ability of Holdings, AAM, Inc. or their restricted subsidiaries to make certain investments, declare or pay dividends or distributions on capital stock, redeem or repurchase capital stock and certain debt obligations, incur liens, incur indebtedness, or merge, make certain acquisitions or certain sales of assets. The Credit Agreement includes customary events of default, the occurrence of which would permit the lenders to, among other things, declare the principal, accrued interest and other obligations to be immediately due and payable. Upon such default, the lenders may also seek customary remedies with respect to the collateral under the Collateral Agreement. The New Senior Secured Credit Facilities provide back-up liquidity for our foreign credit facilities. We intend to use the availability of long-term financing under the New Senior Secured Credit Facilities to refinance any current maturities related to such debt agreements that are not otherwise refinanced on a long-term basis in their local markets, except where otherwise reclassified to current portion of long-term debt on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. Foreign credit facilities We utilize local currency credit facilities to finance the operations of certain foreign subsidiaries. At March 31, 2017, $60.9 million was outstanding under our foreign credit facilities and an additional $91.2 million was available. The weighted-average interest rate of our long-term debt outstanding was 6.7% at March 31, 2017 and 6.6% at December 31, 2016.

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