eir announces the launch of senior secured notes offering and new facility under its senior facilities agreement to raise in aggregate amount of €850 million
eir announced today the launch of an offering by its subsidiary, eircom Finance DAC, of senior secured notes due 2026 and the intention of its subsidiary, Eircom Finco S.à r.l., to introduce a new facility under its existing senior facilities agreement to raise in aggregate amount of €850 million.
The proceeds of the offering and the drawing under the new facility, if completed, will be used to redeem eircom Finance DAC’s €700 million in principal amount senior secured notes due 2022, to put cash on balance sheet and to pay fees and expenses in connection with the aforementioned transactions.
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The notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the European Economic Area (“EEA”). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, “MiFID II”), (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive 2016/97/EU (as amended), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II, or (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Directive. Consequently no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended, the “PRIIPs Regulation”) for offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPS Regulation.
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