Just Group plc announces Final
Results of its Tender Offers for its £250,000,000 Fixed Rate Reset
Subordinated Tier 2 Notes due 2031, its £250,000,000 9.000 per
cent. Guaranteed Subordinated Notes due 2026 and its £125,000,000
8.125 per cent. Subordinated Tier 2 Notes due 2029
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FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO OR TO ANY
PERSON LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES, ITS TERRITORIES
AND POSSESSIONS (INCLUDING PUERTO RICO, THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS,
GUAM, AMERICAN SAMOA, WAKE ISLAND AND THE NORTHERN MARIANA
ISLANDS), ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA (the United States) OR IN OR INTO OR TO ANY PERSON LOCATED
OR RESIDENT IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE OR TO WHOM IT IS
UNLAWFUL TO RELEASE, PUBLISH OR DISTRIBUTE THIS
ANNOUNCEMENT.
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT RELATES TO THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
THAT QUALIFIED OR MAY HAVE QUALIFIED AS INSIDE INFORMATION WITHIN
THE MEANING OF ARTICLE 7(1) OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU)
596/2014.
17
September 2024. Further to the
indicative results announcement published this morning, Just Group
plc (the Company)
announces today the final results of its separate invitations to
holders of its outstanding: (a) £250,000,000 Fixed Rate Reset
Subordinated Tier 2 Notes due 2031 (ISIN: XS2242666779) (the
2031 Notes); (b)
£250,000,000 9.000 per cent. Guaranteed Subordinated Notes due 2026
(ISIN: XS1504958817) (the 2026
Notes); and (c)
£125,000,000 8.125 per cent. Subordinated Tier 2 Notes due 2029
(ISIN: XS2059770409) (the 2029 Notes
and, together with the 2031 Notes and the 2026
Notes, the Notes and each a Series) to tender their Notes for purchase by the Company for cash
(each an Offer and
together the Offers).
The Offers were announced on 9
September 2024 and were made on the terms and subject to the
conditions contained in the tender offer memorandum dated 9
September 2024 (the Tender Offer
Memorandum) prepared by the Company for the
Offers including (without limitation) the satisfaction (or waiver)
of the New Financing Condition. Capitalised terms used in this
announcement but not otherwise defined have the meanings given to
them in the Tender Offer Memorandum.
The Expiration Deadline for the
Offers was 4.00 p.m. (London time) on 16 September 2024.
As at the Expiration Deadline, the
Company had received valid tenders for purchase pursuant to the
Offers of: (i) £232,719,000 in aggregate nominal amount of 2031
Notes; (ii) £144,009,000 in aggregate nominal amount of 2026 Notes;
and (iii) £63,019,000 in aggregate nominal amount of 2029
Notes.
2031 Notes
Subject to the satisfaction (or
waiver) of the New Financing Condition on
or prior to the Settlement Date, the
Company will accept for purchase all of the 2031 Notes validly
tendered pursuant to the relevant Offer in full, with no
pro rata
scaling.
A summary of the final results of,
and pricing for, the Offer for the 2031 Notes appears
below:
2031 Notes Series Acceptance
Amount
|
2031 Notes Benchmark Security
Rate
|
2031 Notes Purchase
Spread
|
2031 Notes Purchase Yield
|
2031 Notes Purchase Price
|
£232,719,000
|
4.178 per cent.
|
30 bps
|
4.478 per cent.
|
102.604 per cent.
|
As the aggregate nominal amount of
2031 Notes validly tendered in and accepted for purchase pursuant
to the relevant Offer exceeds the 80 per cent. threshold for the
purposes of the Company's redemption option (as further discussed
in the Tender Offer Memorandum), the Company, once it satisfies the
requirements of the terms and conditions of the 2031 Notes
(the 2031 Notes
Conditions), intends to exercise its
redemption option in respect of all of the remaining 2031 Notes
which were not validly tendered in and accepted for purchase
pursuant to the relevant Offer, notice in respect of which will be
given pursuant to the 2031 Notes Conditions.
2026 Notes and 2029 Notes
The Company has decided not to
accept any valid tenders of 2026 Notes or 2029 Notes for purchase
pursuant to the relevant Offers. As such, the Company has set the
(i) 2026 Notes and 2029 Notes Acceptance Amount and (ii) each
Series Acceptance Amount at £0.
General
Subject to the satisfaction (or
waiver) of the New Financing Condition on
or prior to the Settlement Date, the
expected Settlement Date for the Offers is 19 September 2024.
Following settlement of the relevant Offer(s) (and, in respect of
the 2031 Notes only, prior to the Company's exercise of the
redemption option as discussed above), (i) £17,281,000 in aggregate
nominal amount of the 2031 Notes will remain outstanding, (ii)
£150,000,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the 2026 Notes will
remain outstanding, and £125,000,000 in aggregate nominal amount of
the 2029 Notes will remain outstanding.
The Company will also pay an Accrued
Interest Payment in respect of the 2031 Notes accepted for purchase
pursuant to the relevant Offer.
THE DEALER
MANAGERS
|
HSBC Bank
plc
8 Canada
Square
London
E14 5HQ
United
Kingdom
Telephone: +44 20 7992 6237
Attention: Liability Management, DCM
Email:
LM_EMEA@hsbc.com
|
Morgan Stanley & Co.
International plc
25 Cabot Square
Canary Wharf
London E14 4QA
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 20 7677
4828
Attention: Liability Management
Team
Email:
liabilitymanagementeurope@morganstanley.com
|
|
THE 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: justgroup@is.kroll.com
Website:
https://deals.is.kroll.com/justgroup
This announcement is made by Just
Group 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, encompassing information
relating to the final results of the Offers described above. For
the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission Implementing
Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, this announcement is made by Simon
Watson, Company Secretary at the Company and Hilary Black, Senior
Assistant Company Secretary at the Company.
DISCLAIMER
This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender Offer
Memorandum. No offer or invitation to acquire any securities
is being made pursuant to this announcement. 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/or the Tender Offer Memorandum
come(s) are required by each of the Company, the Dealer Managers
and the Tender Agent to inform themselves about and to observe any
such restrictions.