Primus Guaranty, Ltd. (NYSE:PRS) (the "Company”) today announced that it
purchased one million of its common shares in a privately negotiated
transaction with one of its largest shareholders. The trade settled on
December 14, 2009. The Company agreed to pay $3.20 per share for a total
cost of $3.2 million.
The block trade was conducted under the Company’s previously announced
share and debt repurchase program. All shares purchased under the
program will be retired. Since the repurchase program’s inception in
2008, the Company has purchased 7.9 million of its common shares for a
total cost of approximately $13.3 million and 1.2 million of its 7%
Senior Notes for a total cost of approximately $11.5 million.
About Primus Guaranty
Primus Guaranty, Ltd. is a Bermuda company with operations in New York,
Boston and London. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a leading
manager of corporate credit assets and provider of credit protection.
Primus manages assets in structured credit funds and operating
companies, across a range of asset classes – including investment grade,
high yield and leveraged loans – using both cash and synthetic
instruments.
Safe Harbor Statement
Some of the statements included in this press release and other
statements Primus Guaranty may make, particularly those anticipating
future financial performance, business prospects, growth and operating
strategies, market performance, valuations and similar matters, are
forward-looking statements that involve a number of assumptions, risks
and uncertainties, which change over time. For those statements, Primus
Guaranty claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking
statements contained in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. Any such statements speak only as of the date they are
made, and Primus Guaranty assumes no duty to, and does not undertake to,
update any forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ
materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements, and
future results could differ materially from historical performance. For
a discussion of the factors that could affect the company's actual
results please refer to the risk factors identified from time to time in
the company's SEC reports, including, but not limited to, Primus
Guaranty's Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission.