ALSTOM SA: Alstom successfully places a €750m hybrid bond issuance
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Alstom successfully places a €750m hybrid bond issuance
23 May 2024 – Alstom has successfully placed today an issuance of €750 million in principal amount of deeply subordinated (or “hybrid”) bonds. The bonds bear a fixed rate coupon of 5.868% per annum for the first 5.25 years and a resettable rate every 5 years thereafter. They are direct, unconditional, unsecured, undated and deeply subordinated obligations (titres subordonnés de dernier rang) of the issuer. Moody’s has informed the issuer that it will assign a 50% equity content to the bonds1 which will be rated Ba2, two notches below Alstom’s Baa3 senior unsecured rating.
The transaction was massively oversubscribed, reflecting strong demand across geographies and investor classes.
The issuance is pursuant to Alstom’s previously announced €2 billion inorganic deleveraging plan. The proceeds of the issuance, along with those of the other components of the deleveraging plan, will be used to repay approximately €1.2 billion of short-term debt by September 2024 and the remainder will be invested in highly liquid short-term investments and will be earmarked for gross debt reduction at maturity.
BNP Paribas, BofA Securities Europe and HSBC acted as global coordinators and joint bookrunners for the issuance. Citigroup Global Markets Europe, Natixis, SMBC Bank EU, UniCredit Bank acted as active bookrunners, while Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft and Intesa Sanpaolo acted as passive bookrunners. PJT Partners and Perella Weinberg Partners acted as financial advisors to Alstom, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP acted as legal advisors to Alstom and White & Case LLP as legal advisors to the banks.
1 Alstom will account for the bonds entirely as equity under IFRS.
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