29th Jan 2024 12:30
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF ARTICLE 7 OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU) 596/2014.
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Thames Water Utilities Finance plc announces the results of its Tender Offer in respect of its Class A £500,000,0004 per cent. Guaranteed Unwrapped Bonds due June 2025[*] (ISIN: XS1078777114)
29 January 2024. Thames Water Utilities Finance plc[?] (the "Company") announces today the results of its invitation to the holders of its outstanding Class A £500,000,000 4 per cent. Guaranteed Unwrapped Bonds due June 2025 (ISIN: XS1078777114) (the "Notes") to tender their Notes for purchase by the Company for cash announced on 22 January 2024, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the New Financing Condition (as defined in the Tender Offer Memorandum (as defined below)) (the "Offer").
This announcement is for information purposes only and should be read in conjunction with the tender offer memorandum dated 22 January 2024 (the "Tender Offer Memorandum") prepared by the Company. Capitalised terms used in this announcement but not defined herein have the meanings given to them in the Tender Offer Memorandum.
The New Financing Condition is expected to be satisfied on 30 January 2024.
The Company hereby announces that it accepts for purchase, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the New Financing Condition, Notes validly tendered for purchase in the Offer in the nominal amount set out in the table below. Pricing of the Offer for the Notes is also set out in the table below.
Description of the Notes | ISIN/Common Code | Benchmark Security Rate | Purchase Spread | Purchase Price | Purchase Yield | Nominal amount of Notes accepted for purchase |
Class A £500,000,000 4 per cent. Guaranteed Unwrapped Bonds due June 2025 | XS1078777114/107877711 | 4.371 per cent. | +245 basis points | 96.211 per cent. | 6.937 per cent. | £185,527,000 |
The Company will also pay an Accrued Interest Payment with respect to the purchased Notes.
The Offer commenced on 22 January 2024 and expired at 4:00 p.m. (London time) on 26 January 2024. Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the New Financing Condition, settlement of the Offer is expected to take place on 30 January 2024 (the "Settlement Date").
Questions and requests for assistance in connection with the Offer may be directed to the Dealer Managers, the contact details for each of which are set out below:
DEALER MANAGERS | |
Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets plc 10 Gresham Street London EC2V 7AE United Kingdom Telephone: +44 20 7158 1726 / 1717 Email: [email protected] Attention: Liability Management
| NatWest Markets Plc 250 Bishopsgate London EC2M 4AA United Kingdom Telephone: +44 20 7678 5222 Email: [email protected] Attention: Liability Management
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TENDER AGENT | |
Kroll Issuer Services Limited The Shard 32 London Bridge Street London SE1 9SG United Kingdom Telephone: +44 20 7704 0880 Attention: Owen Morris Email: [email protected] Tender Offer Website: https://deals.is.kroll.com/thameswater |
MARKET ABUSE REGULATION
This announcement is released by Thames Water Utilities Finance plc and contains information that qualified or may have qualified as inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 ("MAR"), encompassing information relating to the Offer and proposed new issue of New Notes described above. For the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, this announcement is made by David Gregg, Director of Thames Water Utilities Finance plc.
DISCLAIMER
This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender Offer Memorandum. Neither this announcement nor the Tender Offer Memorandum constitutes an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell Notes (and tenders of Notes in the Offer will not be accepted from Noteholders) in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. The distribution of this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum comes are required by each of the Company, the Dealer Managers and the Tender Agent to inform themselves about, and to observe, any such restrictions. The Offer has now expired.
[*] \* The Notes were initially issued by Thames Water Utilities Cayman Finance Limited, which has been substituted by the Company as issuer.
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