Advance Auto Parts Announces Pricing of Cash Tender Offer for Any and All of Its Outstanding 4.50% Senior Unsecured Notes Due December 1, 2023

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Advance Auto Parts has priced its cash tender offer for all outstanding 4.50% senior unsecured notes due December 1, 2023, totaling $450 million. The tender offer, detailed in the Offer Documents from September 22, 2020, includes a consideration of $1,118.87 per $1,000 principal amount of notes validly tendered. The offer expires today at 5:00 p.m. New York City time. Advance has retained D.F. King & Co., Inc. as the tender agent and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as the dealer manager. The settlement date is expected on September 29, 2020.

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• Advance Auto Parts is proactively managing its debt by executing a cash tender offer.
• The offer includes a premium consideration of $1,118.87 per $1,000 principal amount of notes, reflecting favorable terms for bondholders.

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RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (“Advance”) (NYSE: AAP), a leading automotive aftermarket parts provider in North America, announced today that it has priced the previously announced cash tender offer for any and all of its outstanding 4.50% senior unsecured notes due December 1, 2023 (CUSIP No. 00751Y AC0) (the “Notes”), on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, dated September 22, 2020 (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Offer to Purchase”), and the related Notice of Guaranteed Delivery attached to the Offer to Purchase (the “Notice of Guaranteed Delivery”). The tender offer is referred to herein as the “Offer.” The Offer to Purchase and the Notice of Guaranteed Delivery are referred to herein collectively as the “Offer Documents.”

Certain information regarding the Notes and the pricing for the Offer is set forth in the table below.

Title of Securities	Principal Amount Outstanding	U.S. Treasury Reference Security	Bloomberg Reference Page	Reference Yield	Fixed Spread	Tender Offer Consideration (1) (2)
4.50% Notes due 2023 (CUSIP No.: 00751Y AC0)	$450,000,000	0.125% UST due September 15, 2023	FIT1	0.154%	25 bps	$1,118.87

(1)		Per $1,000 principal amount of Notes tendered and accepted for purchase.
(2)		Excludes accrued and unpaid interest from the last interest payment date up to, but not including, the Settlement Date, which will be paid in addition to the Tender Offer Consideration.

The Offer will expire today at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, unless extended or earlier terminated, as described in the Offer Documents (such time and date, as may be extended, the “Expiration Date”).

The “Tender Offer Consideration” listed in the table above for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn and accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer to Purchase was determined in the manner described in the Offer Documents by reference to the fixed spread for the Notes specified in the table above plus the yield based on the bid-side price of the U.S. Treasury Reference Security specified in the table above at 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 28, 2020.

Holders must validly tender (and not validly withdraw) or deliver a properly completed and duly executed Notice of Guaranteed Delivery for their Notes at or before the Expiration Date in order to be eligible to receive the Tender Offer Consideration. In addition, holders whose Notes are purchased in the Offer will receive accrued and unpaid interest on the purchased Notes from the last interest payment date to, but not including, the Settlement Date (as defined in the Offer to Purchase). Advance expects the Settlement Date to occur on September 29, 2020. Notes tendered by Notice of Guaranteed Delivery and accepted for purchase will be purchased on the third business day after the Expiration Date, but payment of accrued interest on such Notes will only be made to, but not including, the Settlement Date.

The consummation of the Offer is not conditioned upon any minimum amount of Notes being tendered, but is subject to, and conditioned upon, the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions described in the Offer to Purchase.

Advance has retained D.F. King & Co., Inc. (“D.F. King”) as the tender agent and information agent for the Offer. Advance has retained J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as the dealer manager for the Offer.

Holders who would like additional copies of the Offer Documents may call or email the information agent, D.F. King toll-free at (800) 848-3405, collect at (212) 269-5550 or aap@dfking.com. Copies of the Offer to Purchase and the Notice of Guaranteed Delivery are also available at the following website: http:www/dfking.com/aap. Questions regarding the terms of the Offer should be directed to J.P. Morgan Securities LLC at (866) 834-4666 (toll-free) or (212) 834-8553 (collect).

None of Advance, its subsidiary guarantors, its board of directors, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, D.F. King or the trustee for the Notes, or any of their respective affiliates, is making any recommendation as to whether holders of the Notes should tender their Notes pursuant to the Offer.

This press release does not constitute an offer to buy or a solicitation of an offer to sell any Notes. The Offer is being made solely pursuant to the Offer Documents. The Offer is not being made to holders of Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction. In any jurisdiction in which the securities laws or blue sky laws require the Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Offer will be deemed to be made on behalf of Advance by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC or one or more registered brokers or dealers that are licensed under the laws of such jurisdiction.

About Advance Auto Parts

Advance Auto Parts, Inc. is a leading automotive aftermarket parts provider that serves both professional installer and do-it-yourself customers. As of July 11, 2020, Advance operated 4,819 stores and 167 Worldpac branches in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Advance also serves 1,262 independently owned Carquest branded stores across these locations in addition to Mexico, the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos and British Virgin Islands.

Forward-Looking Statements

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