Hertz Announces Completion of $425 Million Exchangeable Senior Notes Offering

Involvement of Pershing Square Capital Management L.P. affirms confidence in Company’s turnaround strategy

ESTERO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTZ) (“Hertz” or the “Company”), a leading global rental car company, today announced that its wholly-owned indirect subsidiary, The Hertz Corporation (“Hertz Corp.”) has completed an offering of $425 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.500% Exchangeable Senior Notes due 2030 (the “Notes”), which includes the exercise in full of the initial purchasers’ option to purchase up to an additional $50 million principal amount of the Notes.

With the completion of this offering, the Company has further strengthened its financial position with the support of notable investors, including Pershing Square, to further its ongoing corporate transformation.

“The decision by Pershing Square and other key Hertz investors to increase their long economic exposure to the company, combined with the oversubscription of this offering, underscores the strong confidence in our company," said Scott Haralson, Chief Financial Officer at Hertz. “As we transform our business, the substantial investment from existing and new investors demonstrates their shared belief that our strategy and disciplined execution have positioned the company for future success.”

For additional details, please refer to the Company’s Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

ABOUT HERTZ

Hertz Global Holdings Inc. is one of the world’s leading car rental and mobility solutions providers. Its subsidiaries and licensees operate the Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty and Firefly vehicle rental brands with more than 11,000 rental locations in 160 countries around the globe, as well as the Hertz Car Sales brand, which offers a range of quality, competitively priced used cars for sale online and at locations across the US, and the Hertz 24/7 car sharing business in Europe.

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This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Words such as “expect,” “will” and “intend” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, which include but are not limited to statements related to our positioning, strategy, vision, forward looking investments, conditions in the travel industry, our financial and operational condition, our sources of liquidity, the consummation of the offering, Hertz Corp.’s expected use of proceeds from the proposed offering. We caution you that these statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to numerous evolving risks and uncertainties that we may not be able to accurately predict or assess, including risks and uncertainties related to completion of the offering, market conditions (including market interest rates) and the satisfaction of customary closing conditions related to the offering, unanticipated uses of capital and those in our risk factors that we identify in the offering memorandum for the offering and our most recent annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 18, 2025, and any updates thereto in the Company’s quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. We caution you not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their date, and we undertake no obligation to update this information.