Sportradar Group AG (Nasdaq: SRAD) (“Sportradar” or the “Company”) today announced the pricing of the previously announced secondary public offering of an aggregate of 23,000,000 Class A ordinary shares of the Company (the “Secondary Offering”) by an affiliate of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, an affiliate of TCV, and Carsten Koerl, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (collectively, the “Selling Shareholders”), at a price to the public of $22.50 per share. The underwriters have been granted a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 3,450,000 Class A ordinary shares from certain of the Selling Shareholders. The Company is not selling any shares and will not receive any proceeds from the Secondary Offering.
In connection with the Secondary Offering, Sportradar agreed to concurrently purchase from the underwriters 3,000,000 Class A ordinary shares at a price per share equal to the price at which the underwriters purchase the shares from the Selling Shareholders in the Secondary Offering (the “Share Repurchase”), subject to the completion of the Secondary Offering. The Share Repurchase is part of the Company’s existing $200 million share repurchase program and the Company intends to fund the Share Repurchase with cash on hand. The underwriters will not receive any underwriting fees for the shares being repurchased by the Company. The Secondary Offering is expected to close on April 25, 2025.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan are acting as lead book-running managers, with Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, UBS Investment Bank, Jefferies and Deutsche Bank Securities acting as joint book-running managers for the Secondary Offering. The Benchmark Company, Canaccord Genuity, Citizens Capital Markets, Craig-Hallum and Needham & Company are acting as co-managers for the Secondary Offering.
The Company has filed a shelf registration statement (including a prospectus) on Form F-3 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) for the Secondary Offering to which this communication relates. The registration statement automatically became effective upon filing on April 22, 2025. A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Secondary Offering has also been, and a prospectus supplement relating to the Secondary Offering will be, filed with the SEC. Investors should read the accompanying prospectus, dated April 22, 2025, the preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Secondary Offering, dated April 22, 2025, the prospectus supplement once available and documents the Company has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Company and the Secondary Offering.
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