STORE Capital Taken Private in $14B Deal
GIC and Oak Street will acquire the internally managed net lease REIT in an all cash transaction.
Net lease REIT STORE Capital Corp. is being acquired by a partnership between global institutional investor GIC and Oak Street, a division of net lease investor Blue Owl, in an all-cash deal worth $14 billion.
The transaction, which was unanimously approved by the STORE Capital Board of Directors, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2023, subject to approval by STORE Capital’s stockholders and certain other customary closing conditions.
The definitive merger agreement includes a 30-day “go-shop” period that will expire on October 15, 2022, which permits STORE Capital to actively solicit and consider alternative acquisition proposals.
When the deal closes, STORE Capital’s common stock will no longer be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Under the terms of the definitive merger agreement, STORE Capital stockholders will receive $32.25 per share in cash, which represents a premium of 20.4% to STORE Capital’s closing stock price as of September 14, 2022 and a premium of 17.8% to the 90-day volume weighted average stock price through that date.
Evercore and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC are acting as financial advisors to STORE Capital, and DLA Piper LLP (US) is acting as its legal counsel. Eastdil Secured Advisors LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. are acting as financial advisors to GIC and Oak Street. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is acting as legal counsel to GIC and Kirkland & Ellis LLP is acting as legal counsel to Oak Street.