Pricing of the Senior PIK Toggle Notes.
Together Financial Services Limited
19 September 2018
NOT FOR PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION OR CIRCULATION IN
THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA OR JAPAN
Bracken Midco1 plc
Pricing of the Senior PIK Toggle Notes
Bracken Midco1 plc (the "Issuer"), the indirect parent company of Together Financial Services Limited (the "Company"), is pleased to announce the pricing of its £350,000,000 Senior PIK Toggle Notes due 2023 at a coupon of 8⅞% cash interest and 10⅜% PIK interest (the "Notes") as part of the refinancing of its existing £220.0 million aggregate principal amount of Senior PIK Toggle Notes due 2021 (the "Existing Notes") and the existing £100.0 million loan notes (the "Vendor Notes") issued by Bracken Topco Limited ("Topco"), the parent company of the Issuer. The net proceeds of the offering of the Notes will be used (i) to repurchase or redeem the Existing Notes, (ii) to provide Bracken Topco Limited with the funds required to (a) redeem in full the outstanding Vendor Notes, including accrued interest and (b) make a distribution to Topco's shareholder (including, for the purposes of payment of accrued interest on certain shareholder debt and making a dividend payment to its shareholders) and (iii) to pay related expenses.
The Notes will be secured by (i) a pledge over the issued capital stock in Bracken Midco2 Limited ("Midco2"), the direct subsidiary of the Issuer and direct parent of the Company and (ii) an assignment of all existing and future intercompany loans in respect of which the Issuer is the lender, including, as of the Issue Date, the Midco2 Intercompany Loans. The Notes will not be guaranteed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
Application will be made for the listing particulars related to the Notes to be approved by the Irish Stock Exchange plc trading as Euronext Dublin (the "Exchange") and for the Notes to be admitted to the Official List of the Exchange and admitted to trading on its Global Exchange Market. If admitted to trading, the Notes will trade as one series on the Global Exchange Market of the Exchange.
For further information:
Together Financial Services | |
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Mike Davies, Director of Corporate Affairs | 07753 138 185 |
mike.davies@togethermoney.com |
Together is a trading style of Together Financial Services Limited, which has its registered office address at Lake View, Lakeside, Cheadle, Cheshire SK8 3GW.
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The Notes and the guarantees thereof will not be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, the Notes will be offered only to qualified institutional buyers and to persons outside the United States in reliance on Rule 144A and Regulation S under the Securities Act, respectively. Unless so registered, the Notes may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.
This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes or any other security and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in the United States or in any jurisdiction in which, or to any persons to whom, such offering, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any jurisdiction.
This press release constitutes a public disclosure of inside information by Jerrold FinCo plc under Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (16 April 2014).
In member states of the EEA, this announcement and any offer of the securities referred to herein in any Member State of the European Economic Area ("EEA") will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Regulation from the requirement to publish a prospectus for offers of the securities referred to herein. Accordingly, any person making or intending to make an offer in a Member State of Notes which are the subject of the offering contemplated may only do so in circumstances in which no obligation arises for the Issuer or any of the initial purchasers to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Regulation, in each case, in relation to such offer. Neither the Issuer nor the initial purchasers have authorized, nor do they authorize, the making of any offer of Notes in circumstances in which an obligation arises for the Issuer or the initial purchasers to publish a prospectus for such offer. The expression "Prospectus Regulation" means Regulation (EU) 2017/1129.
The securities 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 EEA or in the United Kingdom (the "UK"). 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") or (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. Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended, the "PRIIPs Regulation") for offering or selling the securities or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA or the UK has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the securities or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA or the UK may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation.
This communication is being distributed only to, and is directed at persons who (i) have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the "Financial Promotion Order") (ii) are persons falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) (high net worth companies, unincorporated associations, etc.) of the Financial Promotion Order, (iii) are outside the UK or (iv) are persons to whom an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 in connection with the issue and sale of any securities may otherwise lawfully be communicated or caused to be communicated (all such persons together being referred to as "relevant persons"). This announcement is directed only at relevant persons and must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not relevant persons. Any investment or investment activity to which this announcement relates is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons.
MiFID II professionals/ECPs-only/ No PRIIPs KID - Manufacturer target market (MIFID II product governance) is eligible counterparties and professional clients only (all distribution channels). No PRIIPs key information document (KID) has been prepared as not available to retail in EEA or the UK.
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