Uber Announces Proposed $1.2 Billion Convertible Senior Notes Offering

Uber Technologies, Inc. today announced that it proposes to offer $1.2 billion aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2028 (the “notes”), subject to market conditions and other factors. The notes are being offered only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Uber also intends to grant the initial purchasers of the notes an option to purchase, within a 13-day period beginning on, and including, the date on which the notes are first issued, up to an additional $180.0 million aggregate principal amount of the notes.

Uber intends to use a portion of the net proceeds from the notes offering to fund the cost of entering into the capped call transactions described below. Uber intends to use the remainder of the net proceeds from the notes offering to repay, redeem or repurchase outstanding indebtedness, including the redemption of the outstanding $1 billion aggregate principal amount of Uber’s 7.500% senior notes due 2025 (the “2025 Notes”), plus accrued and unpaid interest and any call premium thereon. This press release does not constitute a redemption notice for the 2025 Notes. If the initial purchasers of the notes exercise their option to purchase additional notes, Uber expects to enter into additional capped call transactions with the option counterparties and to use the remainder of such net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include repayments, redemptions or repurchases of additional outstanding indebtedness.

In connection with the pricing of the notes, Uber expects to enter into privately negotiated capped call transactions relating to the notes with one or more of the initial purchasers of the notes or their respective affiliates and/or other financial institutions (the “option counterparties”). The capped call transactions will cover, subject to anti-dilution adjustments, the number of shares of Uber’s common stock that will initially underlie the notes.

In connection with establishing their initial hedges of the capped call transactions, the option counterparties or their respective affiliates may enter into various derivative transactions with respect to Uber’s common stock and/or purchase Uber’s common stock in secondary market transactions concurrently with or shortly after the pricing of the notes, including with or from, as the case may be, certain investors in the notes. This activity could increase (or reduce the size of any decrease in) the market price of Uber’s common stock or the notes at that time.

In addition, the option counterparties or their respective affiliates may modify or unwind their hedge positions by entering into or unwinding various derivative transactions with respect to Uber’s common stock and/or purchasing or selling Uber’s common stock or other securities of Uber in secondary market transactions following the pricing of the notes and prior to the maturity of the notes (and are likely to do so on each exercise date for the capped call transactions or following any termination of any portion of the capped call transactions in connection with any repurchase, redemption or early conversion of the notes). This activity could also cause or avoid an increase or a decrease in the market price of Uber’s common stock or the notes, which could affect a noteholder’s ability to convert the notes, and, to the extent the activity occurs following conversion or during any observation period related to a conversion of notes, it could affect the amount and value of the consideration that a noteholder will receive upon conversion of such notes.

The notes have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws, and unless so registered, may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other applicable securities laws.

This press release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall it constitute an offer, solicitation or sale of any securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. Any offers of the notes will be made only by means of a private offering memorandum.

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