NOTE 6 – DEBT

The components of our debt are as follows (in millions):

Senior Secured Term Loan B: The Company has a Senior Secured Term Loan "B" (the “Term Loan”) with an original principal amount of $350 million, which amortizes in equal quarterly installments of 1% per year with the balance payable in October 2031, when the facility matures. The Term Loan was issued at an original issue discount of 99.5%. The Company used the proceeds from the Term Loan to repurchase all of its issued and outstanding shares of its Preferred Stock as discussed in Note 8. 

Interest Rate. The Term Loan accrues interest at a margin plus either Term SOFR or a base rate, depending on the Company’s election at the time of a loan. For loans incurring interest based on Term SOFR, the margin is (a) 350 basis points if either or both of the ratings (i) by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) is B2, or lower, or (ii) by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (“S&P”) is B, or lower, and (b) 325 basis points if either or both of the ratings (i) by Moody’s is B1, or better, or (ii) by S&P is B+, or better. For loans incurring interest based on the base rate, the margin is (a) 250 basis points if either or both of the ratings (i) by Moody’s is B2, or lower, or (ii) by S&P is B, or lower, and (b) 225 basis points if either or both of the ratings (i) by Moody’s is B1, or better, or (ii) by S&P is B+, or better. The Term Loan provides certain provisions if ratings are unavailable.

Facility Size Increases. The Term Loan allows for incremental increases in facility size (subject to additional lender commitments) up to an aggregate amount equal to the greater of $225 million and 100% of Consolidated EBITDA for the most recent trailing four consecutive fiscal quarters then ended, plus an additional amount such that the Company’s first lien leverage ratio (as defined under the Term Loan) would not exceed 3.75 to 1.00. MRC Global (US) Inc. is the borrower under the Term Loan facility, which is guaranteed by MRC Global Inc. and certain of its wholly owned U.S. subsidiaries.

Security. The Term Loan is secured by a second lien on the assets of MRC Global Inc., MRC Global (US) Inc. and those U.S. subsidiaries guaranteeing the Term Loan facility (collectively, the "Term Loan Credit Parties") securing the Global ABL Facility (which includes accounts receivable and inventory). The Term Loan is secured by a first lien on substantially all of the other assets of the Term Loan Credit Parities. The Term Loan is further secured by a first lien pledge of all of the capital stock of certain of the direct domestic subsidiaries of Term Loan Credit Parties and 65% of the capital stock of certain of the direct, non-U.S. subsidiaries of the Term Loan Credit Parties.

Prepayments. We are required to repay the Term Loan with the proceeds from certain asset sales and certain insurance proceeds. In addition, on an annual basis, we are required to repay an amount equal to 50% of excess cash flow, as defined in the Term Loan, reducing to 25% if our first lien leverage ratio is no more than 3.25 to 1.00 but greater than 3.00 to 1.00. No payment of excess cash flow is required if the first lien leverage ratio is less than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00. The amount of cash used in the determination of the first lien secured leverage ratio is limited to $125 million.

Restrictive Covenants. The Term Loan does not include any financial maintenance covenants. The Term Loan contains restrictive covenants (in each case, subject to exclusions) that limit, among other things, the ability of the Company and its restricted subsidiaries to:

The Term Loan also contains other customary restrictive covenants. The covenants are subject to various baskets and materiality thresholds, with certain of the baskets permitted by the restrictions on the repayment of subordinated indebtedness, restricted payments and investments being available only when the various leverage ratio calculations of the Company and its restricted subsidiaries is less than 3.75 to 1.00 or 3.50 to 1.00, as applicable.

The Term Loan provides that the Company and its restricted subsidiaries  may incur any first lien indebtedness that is pari passu to the Term Loan so long as the pro forma first lien secured leverage ratio of the Company and its restricted subsidiaries is less than or equal to 3.75 to 1.00. The Company and its restricted subsidiaries  may incur any second lien indebtedness so long as the pro forma junior secured leverage ratio of the Company and its restricted subsidiaries is less than or equal to 4.50 to 1.00. The Company and its restricted subsidiaries  may incur any unsecured indebtedness so long as the total leverage ratio of the Company and its restricted subsidiaries is less than or equal to 4.75 to 1.00 or the pro forma consolidated interest coverage ratio of the Company and its restricted subsidiaries is greater than or equal to 2.00 to 1.00. Additionally, under the Term Loan, the Company and its restricted subsidiaries  may incur indebtedness under the Global ABL Facility (or any replacement facility) in an amount not to exceed the greater of $1.3 billion and the borrowing base under the Global ABL Facility at such time.

The Term Loan contains certain customary representations and warranties, affirmative covenants and events of default, including, among other things, payment defaults, breaches of representations and warranties, covenant defaults, cross-defaults to certain indebtedness, certain events of bankruptcy, certain events under ERISA, judgment defaults, actual or asserted failure of any material guaranty or security documents supporting the Term Loan to be in full force and effect and change of control. If such an event of default occurs, the Agent under the Term Loan is entitled to take various actions, including the acceleration of amounts due under the Term Loan and all other actions that a secured creditor is permitted to take following a default.

Global ABL Facility: The Company is a party to a multi-currency, global asset-based lending facility (the “Global ABL Facility”), including certain of its subsidiaries, its lenders and Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent, security trustee and collateral agent. The Global ABL Facility is a revolving credit facility of $750 million, which matures in  November 2029. The Global ABL Facility is comprised of $705 million in revolver commitments in the United States, which includes a $30 million sub-limit for Canada, $12 million in Norway, $10 million in Australia, $10.5 million in the Netherlands, $7.5 million in the United Kingdom and $5 million in Belgium. The Global ABL Facility contains an accordion feature that allows us to increase the principal amount of the facility by up to $250 million, subject to securing additional lender commitments.

Guarantees. Obligations of the U.S. Borrowers under the Global ABL Facility are guaranteed by the Company, each of the U.S. Borrowers, each of the Canadian Borrowers, certain of the wholly owned material U.S. subsidiaries of the U.S. Borrowers from time to time party to the ABL Agreement (the “U.S. Guarantors”) and certain of the wholly owned Canadian subsidiaries of the Company from time to time party to the ABL Agreement (the “Canadian Guarantors”). The obligations of the Foreign Borrowers under the Global ABL Facility are guaranteed by the U.S. Borrowers, the U.S. Guarantors and, subject to certain limitations the ABL Agreement more particularly describes, the Foreign Borrowers (collectively, the “ABL Guarantors”).

Security. Obligations under the U.S./Canadian Facility are primarily secured, subject to certain exceptions, by a first-priority security interest in the accounts receivable, inventory and related assets of the U.S. Borrowers, U.S. Guarantors, the Canadian Borrowers and the Canadian Guarantors. In connection with the Company’s sale of its Canadian operations, the security interests in the Company’s Canadian accounts receivable and inventory that were sold were released, and as these Canadian operations were sold, the Company does not expect the Canadian Borrowers to actively utilize the facility for borrowings. The obligations of any Foreign Borrower are primarily secured, subject to certain exceptions, by a first-priority security interest in the accounts receivable, inventory and related assets of the Foreign Borrowers and the ABL Guarantors and a first-priority pledge by the Foreign Borrower of the equity interests in its direct, wholly owned restricted subsidiaries incorporated in the relevant borrower jurisdictions and intercompany debt instruments the Foreign Borrower holds. No property of a Foreign Borrower or its subsidiaries (other than the Canadian Borrowers) secures the U.S./Canadian Facility. The security interest in accounts receivable, inventory and related assets of the U.S. Borrowers ranks prior to the security interest in this collateral which secures the Term Loan.

Borrowing Bases. Each Foreign Borrower has a separate stand-alone Borrowing Base that limits the Foreign Borrower’s ability to borrow under its respective Facility, subject to an exception allowing the Foreign Borrowers to utilize excess availability under the U.S./Canadian Facility to borrow amounts in excess of their respective borrowing bases, which utilization will reduce excess availability under the U.S./Canadian Facility dollar for dollar.

Interest Rates. Prior to  December 1, 2024, the applicable margin for borrowings under the Global ABL Facility will be set at Level II of the definition of “Applicable Margin” under the ABL Agreement as determined by a consolidated fixed charge ratio greater than 1.50 to 1.00 but less than or equal to 2.25 to 1.00, which means that borrowings will bear interest at a rate equal to:

On and after  December 1, 2024 as of the end of the fiscal quarter that most recently ended, the applicable margins will be subject to a 0.25% step-down to Level III of the definition of “Applicable Margin” under the ABL Agreement as determined by a consolidated fixed charge ratio greater than 2.25 to 1.00 or a 0.25% step-up to Level I of the definition of “Applicable Margin” under the ABL Agreement as determined by a consolidated fixed charge ratio less than or equal to 1.50 to 1.00.

In addition to paying interest on outstanding principal under the Global ABL Facility, the ABL Borrowers are required to pay a commitment fee in respect of unutilized commitments, which is equal to 0.375% per annum for each Facility (or 0.25% per annum if utilization of a Facility exceeds 35% of the aggregate commitments under the Facility).

Excess Availability. At  March 31, 2025, availability under our Global ABL Facility was $507 million.

Interest on Borrowings: The interest rates on our outstanding borrowings at  March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, including amortization of debt issuance costs, were as follows: