WEST ORANGE, N.J., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lincoln Educational Services Corporation ("Lincoln") today announced the pricing of a public offering of 4,000,000 shares of its common stock to be sold by a selling stockholder at a price to the public of $20.25 per share. The selling stockholder has granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 600,000 shares. Lincoln will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of shares of common stock by the selling stockholder.
The offering was made under a shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is expected to close on September 30, 2009. Barclays Capital Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC are the joint book-running managers. Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, BMO Capital Markets Corp., Barrington Research Associates, Inc., Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and Signal Hill Capital Group LLC are the co-managers of the offering.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities law of any such jurisdiction. The offering is being made by means of a prospectus and the related preliminary prospectus supplement only. Copies of the prospectus, the related preliminary prospectus supplement and the final prospectus supplement (when available) can be obtained from Barclays Capital Inc., c/o Broadridge, Integrated Distribution Services, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, Barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com Toll Free: 1 (888) 603-5847 and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, One Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10010, (800) 221-1037.
About Lincoln Educational Services Corporation
Lincoln Educational Services Corporation is a leading and diversified for-profit provider of career-oriented post-secondary education. Lincoln offers recent high school graduates and working adults degree and diploma programs in five areas of study: automotive technology, health sciences, skilled trades, business and information technology and hospitality services. Lincoln has provided the workforce with skilled technicians since its inception in 1946. Lincoln currently operates 43 campuses in 17 states under eleven brands: Lincoln College of Technology, Lincoln Technical Institute, Nashville Auto-Diesel College, Southwestern College, Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts and Sciences, Connecticut Culinary Institute, Americare School of Nursing, Baran Institute of Technology, Engine City Technical Institute, Briarwood College and Clemens College. Lincoln had a combined average enrollment of approximately 26,035 students as of June 30, 2009.
Statements in this press release regarding Lincoln''s business which are not historical facts may be "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in Lincoln''s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 and in Lincoln''s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and Lincoln undertakes no obligation to revise or update this news release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.
Lincoln Educational Services Corporation
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