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GOL Announces Tender Offer for Senior Notes 2017, 2020 and 2023 |
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São Paulo, August 26, 2014 - GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A. (BM&FBOVESPA: GOLL4 and NYSE: GOL), (S&P: B, Fitch: B-, Moody’s: B3), the largest low-cost and low-fare airline in Latin America (“Company”) in compliance with article 157, §4 of Law no. 6,404/76 and CVM Instruction no. 358/2002, hereby announces that it has commenced, through its subsidiary Gol LuxCo S.A. (“LuxCo”), an offer to purchase for cash (the “2023 Notes Tender Offer”) any and all of LuxCo’s outstanding 10.750% Senior Notes due 2023 (the “ 2023 Notes”) and, through its subsidiary GOL Finance (“Finance”), an offer to purchase for cash (the “2020 Notes Tender Offer”) any and all of Finance’s outstanding 9.250% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “2020 Notes”) and an offer to purchase for cash (“the “2017 Notes Tender Offer” and, together with the 2023 Notes Tender Offer and the 2020 Notes Tender Offer, the “Tender Offers”) any and all of Finance’s outstanding 7.50% Senior Notes due 2017 (the “2017 Notes” and, together with the 2023 Notes and the 2020 Notes, the “Notes”).
In connection with the Tender Offers, LuxCo and Finance are also soliciting consents (the “Consent Solicitations”) of the holders of the Notes to the adoption of certain amendments to the indentures governing the Notes to eliminate substantially all of the restrictive covenants, as well as various events of default and related provisions contained in such indentures.
This notice is not an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to purchase or a solicitation of consent. The Tender Offers and Consent Solicitations are being made solely pursuant to an offer to purchase and consent solicitation statement and its related letter of transmittal. The Tender Offers and Consent Solicitations are not being made to, nor will Luxco and Finance accept tenders of Notes and deliveries of consents from, Holders in any jurisdiction in which the Tender Offers and Consent Solicitations would not be in compliance with the securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdiction.
ABOUT GOL LINHAS AÉREAS INTELIGENTES S.A.
GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A. (BM&FBOVESPA: GOLL4 and NYSE: GOL), the largest low-cost and low-fare airline in Latin America offering, under the GOL and VARIG brands, around 910 daily flights to 67 destinations, 15 of which international in South America, the Caribbean and the United States, using a young, modern fleet of Boeing 737-700 and 737-800 Next Generation aircraft, the safest, most efficient and most economical of their type. The SMILES loyalty program allows members to accumulate miles and redeem tickets to more than 560 locations around the world via flights with foreign partner airlines. The Company also operates Gollog, a logistics service which retrieves and delivers cargo and packages to and from more than 3,500 cities in Brazil and six abroad. With its portfolio of innovative products and services, GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes offers the best cost-benefit ratio in the market.
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/S/ Edmar Prado Lopes Neto | |
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Name: Edmar Prado Lopes Neto
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