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AK Steel Announces $250 Million Senior Notes Offer

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Topic: AK Steel Announces $250 Million Senior Notes Offer
Posted By: Middletown News
Subject: AK Steel Announces $250 Million Senior Notes Offer
Date Posted: Mar 19 2012 at 10:50am
AK Steel Holding Corporation AKS +4.88% ("AK Holding") announced today that its subsidiary, AK Steel Corporation ("AK Steel"), has commenced a registered offering (the "Offering") of $250 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2022 (the "Notes"). The Notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by AK Holding. AK Steel intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering to repay borrowings under its revolving credit facility. The Offering is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").

The joint book-running managers for the Offering are BofA Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, and Wells Fargo Securities.

AK Holding and AK Steel have filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC relating to the Offering. The offering may be made only by means of a prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus and other documents AK Holding and AK Steel have filed with the SEC for more complete information about AK Holding, AK Steel and the Offering. You may review electronic copies of these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov .

Alternatively, AK Holding, AK Steel and any underwriter or any dealer participating in the Offering will arrange to send you the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus if you request them by contacting: BofA Merrill Lynch, 4 World Financial Center, New York, NY 10080, Attention: Prospectus Department, 800-294-1322 or email: dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com; J.P. Morgan at J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, attention: High Yield Syndicate, (800) 245-8812 or email: HY_syndicate@jpmorgan.com; Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Brooklyn Army Terminal, 140 58th Street, 8th floor, Brooklyn, New York 11220, (877) 858-5407, Attention: Prospectus Department; Credit Suisse at Attention: Prospectus Department, One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10171 (1-800-221-1037); Deutsche Bank Securities (1-800-503-4611 or prospectus.cpdg@db.com); or Wells Fargo Securities at Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Attn: Client Support, 550 South Tryon Street, 7th Floor MAC D1086-070, Charlotte, NC 28202, (800) 326-5897 or email: cmclientsupport@wellsfargo.com.

This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes in the Offering, nor shall there be any sale of such Notes in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.

Forward-Looking StatementsSome of the statements in this release are intended to be, and hereby are identified as "forward-looking statements" for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The company cautions readers that such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those currently expected by management, including those risks and uncertainties discussed in AK Holding's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, as updated in its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, the company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect future developments or events.

AK SteelAK Steel produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steels, primarily for automotive, infrastructure and manufacturing, construction and electrical power generation and distribution markets. The company employs about 6,200 men and women in Middletown, Mansfield, Coshocton and Zanesville, Ohio; Butler, Pennsylvania; Ashland, Kentucky; Rockport, Indiana; and its corporate headquarters in West Chester, Ohio.

AK Tube LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AK Steel, employs about 300 men and women in plants in Walbridge, Ohio and Columbus, Indiana. AK Tube produces carbon and stainless electric resistance welded (ERW) tubular steel products for truck, automotive and other markets.

AK Coal Resources, Inc., another wholly-owned subsidiary of AK Steel, owns or leases metallurgical coal reserves in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. AK Steel also owns 49.9% of Magnetation LLC, a joint venture headquartered in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, which produces iron ore concentrate from previously mined ore reserves.

SOURCE AK Steel

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