Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Chatham Lodging Trust Prices Public Offering of Common Shares


Hilton Garden Inn Denver Tech Center Hotel, Denver, CO

Palm Beach, FL, Sept.  25, 2013—Chatham Lodging Trust (the “company”) (NYSE: CLDT) today announced that it has priced its public offering of 3,250,000 common shares of beneficial interest, $0.01 par value per share, at $18.35 per share, for total gross proceeds of $59,637,500, prior to underwriting discounts and offering expenses.   

Residence Inn Seattle Bellevue/Downtown
Bellevue, WA
 The offering is expected to close on September 30, 2013.  The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 487,500 shares to cover over-allotments, if any.

 The company will contribute the net proceeds of this offering to its operating partnership in exchange for common units of limited partnership interest in the operating partnership.

 The company’s operating partnership intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to repay debt under the company’s senior secured revolving credit facility (including debt to be incurred to purchase the 180-room Hilton Garden Inn Denver Tech Center in Denver, Colorado, for a cash purchase price of $27.9 million) and to fund a portion of the acquisition of the 231-room Residence Inn Seattle Bellevue/Downtown in Bellevue, Washington, for a cash purchase price of $73.2 million. 

The company’s operating partnership intends to use any remaining net proceeds to invest in additional hotel properties in accordance with the company’s investment strategy and for general corporate purposes.



 For a complete copy of the company’s news release, please contact:

Media
Daly Gray Public Relations
Jerry Daly, 703-435-6293

or

Chatham Lodging Trust
Dennis Craven, 561-227-1386
Chief Financial Officer

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