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Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. ("Norwegian") and NCL Corporation Ltd. announced today the launch of Norwegian's initial public offering of 23,529,412 ordinary shares pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). Norwegian will grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase an aggregate of up to 3,529,412 additional ordinary shares. Norwegian intends to list the ordinary shares on the NASDAQ Global Select Market and, subject to official notice of issuance, the ordinary shares will trade under the symbol "NCLH."
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quote:Originally posted by jetwet1:Apollo getting some of their money out.
No. All the money -- about $400 million -- goes to NCL and will mostly be used to pay down or off some of the older debt from the ships they built a few years ago. Apollo and Genting were not sellers.
[ 01-20-2013: Message edited by: Globaliser ]
quote:Originally posted by SSTRAVELER:No. All the money -- about $400 million -- goes to NCL and will mostly be used to pay down or off some of the older debt from the ships they built a few years ago. Apollo and Genting were not sellers.
I'm surprised Apollo didn't try to get some of the money out, they are getting hit here in Vegas hard. They need to come up with close to $400M to bring the Rio back up to code after numerous faults were found.
Oh well, good for NCL, it's been a few decades (damn it I am getting old) since I was last on an NCL ship (Skyward was the last one) but we just booked a trans Atlantic on the Epic (big ugly thing) that for the first time in a while I am actually excited about (still a kid at heart).
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