Jernigan Capital, Inc. announced that on December 28, 2018, it entered into an amended and restated senior secured revolving credit facility of up to $235 million with a syndicate of banks led by KeyBank National Association, Raymond James Bank, N.A., and BMO Harris Bank N.A. The $235 million credit facility, which has an accordion feature permitting expansion up to $400 million, subject to certain conditions including obtaining additional commitments from lenders, has a three-year term that expires December 28, 2021 and two one-year extension options to extend the maturity of the facility to December 28, 2023. The amended credit facility more than doubles the Company’s access to committed credit, from $100 million to $235 million, increases the accordion from $100 million to $165 million (subject to syndication) and extends the maturity (assuming extension options are exercised) by approximately 3 ½ years from July 24, 2020 to December 28, 2023.
Borrowings under the credit facility are secured by three separate pools of collateral: one consisting of the Company’s mortgage loans extended to developers of self-storage properties, one consisting of non-stabilized self-storage properties wholly-owned by the Company, and the last consisting of stabilized self-storage properties wholly-owned by the Company. Advances under the credit agreement bear interest at rates between 225 and 325 basis points over 30-day LIBOR. These spreads are 50 basis points lower than the spreads under the previous credit facility, which were 275 and 375 basis points, respectively.
“This new facility marks another major milestone for JCAP,” said John Good, Chief Executive Officer of the Company. “With the amendment and restatement of our credit facility, we have significantly increased our access to capital at a lower cost. Solid execution of JCAP’s business plan, evidenced by strong relationships with a select group of developers who are building best-of-class facilities generally on-time and on-budget, successful leasing of completed projects and a proven ability to capitalize on opportunities to own new state-of-the-art self-storage facilities in great submarkets in major U.S. cities, has attracted additional banks with ability to grow with us.”
“With an untapped $235 million credit facility (plus a $165 million accordion), a recently refreshed $75 million common ATM program and very low leverage, we believe we are entering 2019 in a very strong capital position,” added Mr. Good. “Our contractual investment commitments in our development pipeline are now fully-covered at conservative leverage levels for the foreseeable future, and we have created dry powder to continue making investments in both new development projects and developer buy-outs.”
As of the time of closing, the Company had borrowing capacity of approximately $91.3 million under the credit facility, of which none was drawn.
KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc., Raymond James Bank, N.A. and BMO Capital Markets Corp. acted as joint lead arrangers and syndication agents for the credit facility. KeyBank N.A. acted as the Administrative Agent for the credit facility. Other banks participating in the credit facility are Trustmark National Bank, Pinnacle Bank, FirstBank, Triumph Bank and Renasant Bank.