HOUSTON, July 13, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- WCA Waste Corporation (Nasdaq:WCAA) announced today that the Company's stockholders have approved the issuance of a previously described $75 million convertible preferred equity investment to Ares Corporate Opportunities Fund II, L.P. The closing and funding of the preferred stock issuance is expected before the end of July, subject to customary closing conditions.
The issuance is part of a previously announced capital plan, pursuant to which the Company has refinanced its senior indebtedness and has arranged for additional capital to finance its acquisition and growth plans. Based on the terms of the previously disclosed new senior notes and senior secured financings and the closing of the equity investment, the Company's leverage ratios will be reduced and the effective interest rates will be fixed. In addition, the Company expects that the terms of its new financing arrangements will allow additional acquisitions that are financed pursuant to its new revolving credit facility to be accretive assuming the purchase price of future acquisitions is consistent with past acquisitions. It also expects that its effective cost of borrowing will be reduced after the revolving facility is fully funded.
WCA Waste Corporation is an integrated company engaged in the transportation, processing, and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste. The Company's operations consist of twenty landfills, twenty-one transfer stations/material recovery facilities and twenty-four collection operations located throughout Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. The Company's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol "WCAA."
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All such statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of WCA's management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Some of those risks and uncertainties have been more fully described in "Risk Factors and Cautionary Statement about Forward-Looking Statements" in WCA's Annual Report on Form 10-K with respect to the year ended December 31, 2005, and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q with respect to the quarterly period ending on March 31, 2006. The risks and uncertainties include, without limitation: any weakness in the economy related to our markets may result in reductions in demand for the Company's services, we may not be able to integrate acquired businesses successfully, revenue and other synergies from the acquisition may not be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected, we may not be able to improve internalization rates by directing waste volumes from acquired businesses to our landfills for regulatory or other reasons, we may suffer unexpected liabilities associated with our acquisitions, disruptions from the acquisition may make it more difficult to maintain relationships with customers, potential increases in commodity, insurance and fuel prices could increase our operating expenses significantly and we face the risk of new and changing regulation. Please consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements and do not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements made herein are only made as of the date of this press release and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.