REDMOND, Wash., March 30 -- Concur (Nasdaq:CNQR - News), the world's leading provider of on-demand Employee Spend Management services, today announced that it has priced $250 million aggregate principal amount of 2.5% convertible senior notes due in 2015. The notes will be sold to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Concur also granted the initial purchasers of the notes an option to purchase up to an additional $37.5 million aggregate principal amount of notes solely to cover over-allotments. The sale is expected to close on April 6, 2010, subject to customary closing conditions.
The notes will be convertible, subject to certain conditions, into cash up to the principal amount of the notes and, with respect to any excess conversion value, into shares of Concur common stock. The notes will have an initial conversion rate of 19.10 shares of common stock per $1,000 principal amount of notes (which is subject to adjustment in certain circumstances). This represents an initial effective conversion price of approximately $52.35 per share. The initial conversion price represents a premium of 25% to the closing price of Concur's common stock on March 30, 2010, which was $41.88 per share.