On September 22, 2023, Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC (the “Selling Stockholder”), a subsidiary of Sphere Entertainment Co., completed a secondary offering (the “Offering”) of 8,221,188 shares, which includes the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, of Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Class A Common Stock”), of Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (the “Company”) at a public offering price of $32.50 per share, less underwriting discounts and commissions. As part of the Offering, the Company repurchased 1,602,564 shares of Class A Common Stock from the underwriters at a price per share of $31.20, equal to the price at which the underwriters purchased the shares from the Selling Stockholder in the Offering, for an aggregate of approximately $50 million.
In connection with the Offering, the Company entered into an Underwriting Agreement, dated September 19, 2023 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), by and among the Company, the Selling Stockholder and BofA Securities, Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as the underwriters. The offering of the shares of Class A Common Stock was registered pursuant to the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-274555), which the Securities and Exchange Commission declared effective on September 19, 2023. The Company did not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of the shares of Class A Common Stock by the Selling Stockholder in the Offering.
At the completion of the Offering, the Selling Stockholder no longer held any of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, as compared to approximately 19.3% immediately prior to the completion of the Offering.
The description of the Underwriting Agreement in this Current Report on Form 8-K does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Underwriting Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 1.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
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