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T-Mobile Announces Proposed Cash Mandatory Exchangeable Trust Securities Offering in Connection with SoftBank’s Monetization of A Portion of Its Shareholding in T-Mobile

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T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) (“T-Mobile”) today announced the intention of the 2020 Cash Mandatory Exchangeable Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”) to offer, subject to market and other factors, its 2020 Cash Mandatory Exchangeable Trust Securities (the “Trust Securities”) in a private offering (the “Offering”). T-Mobile intends to sell 27,906,977 shares of its common stock (30,000,000 shares if the initial purchasers exercise in full their option to purchase additional Trust Securities) to the Trust. For every share of common stock sold by T-Mobile to the Trust, T-Mobile has agreed to repurchase one share of common stock from a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp. (“SoftBank”) for consideration equivalent to that received by T-Mobile in its sales. Consequently, the Offering will not involve gain or loss to T-Mobile and will not affect the number of outstanding shares of T-Mobile common stock or T-Mobile’s capitalization.

The Trust will use a portion of the net proceeds from the Offering to purchase U.S. Treasury securities, which will fund quarterly distributions on the Trust Securities, and the holders of the Trust Securities will be entitled to a final mandatory exchange cash amount on June 1, 2023 that will depend on the daily volume-weighted average price of shares of T-Mobile common stock. A portion of the net proceeds of the Offering, together with a contingent right to receive on June 1, 2023 a number of shares of T-Mobile common stock based on the daily volume-weighted average price of shares of T-Mobile common stock, will be transferred to SoftBank.

The Trust Securities are being offered in a private placement solely to investors that are both qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and qualified purchasers as defined in Section 2(a)(51) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules thereunder for purposes of Section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act. The Trust Securities will not be registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.

In addition, today T-Mobile concurrently announced the commencement of a registered public offering of 133,548,303 shares of its common stock (143,564,426 shares if the underwriters in the offering exercise in full their option to purchase additional shares) and the expected distribution to its stockholders of registered, transferable subscription rights to purchase up to 19,750,000 shares of T-Mobile’s common stock.

The foregoing securities transactions are being executed in connection with SoftBank’s monetization of its shareholding in T-Mobile’s common stock as disclosed in their Schedule 13D/A filed on June 15, 2020.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities described above, nor shall there be any sale of such securities of T-Mobile in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.

This press release is being issued pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 135c under the Securities Act.

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Source: T-Mobile US, Inc.