 Carnival Corporation plc NYSELSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK, one of the worlds largest leisure travel companies, today announced that Carnival Corporation the Corporation has closed its previously announced registered direct offering of 93,663,808 shares of its common stock at a price of 14.02 per share to a limited number of holders of its 5.75 Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 the Convertible Notes. The Corporation used the proceeds from this closing to repurchase 836,284,000 principal amount of its Convertible Notes in privately negotiated transactions. 