Termination of Tender Offers

RNS Number : 2410B

Anglo American PLC

31 March 2017

 

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF ARTICLE 7 OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU) 596/2014.

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March 31, 2017

ANGLO AMERICAN CAPITAL PLC ANNOUNCES TERMINATION OF TENDER OFFERS

Further to its announcement on March 20, 2017 in connection with the Tender Offers for the securities listed below (the "Securities"), Anglo American Capital plc1 (the "Company") has today terminated the Tender Offers.

The Tender Offers were made on the terms and subject to the conditions set out in the tender offer memorandum dated March 20, 2017 (the "Tender Offer Memorandum"). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this announcement have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Title of Securities	ISINs	CUSIP Numbers	Outstanding Nominal Amount
U.S.$850,000,000 3.625% Senior Securities due May 14, 2020 guaranteed by Anglo American plc2 (the "Securities due May 2020")	US034863AN08 and USG0446NAH73	034863AN0 and G0446NAH7	U.S.$850,000,000
U.S.$500,000,000 4.450% Senior Securities due September 27, 2020 guaranteed by Anglo American plc (the "Securities due September 2020")	US034863AD26 and USG03762CE22	034863AD2 and G03762CE2	U.S.$500,000,000

As at the time of this announcement the New Issue Condition has not been satisfied. The Company does not expect the New Issue Condition to be satisfied on April 3, 2017 (being the date the Company expected to announce the early participation results of the Tender Offers). In accordance with the terms and conditions of the Tender Offers, the Company has taken the decision to terminate the Tender Offers today and consequently will not accept any tenders of Securities for purchase.

Any Securities in respect of which Electronic Offer Instructions have been submitted prior to this announcement will be unblocked in DTC. All Securities previously tendered and not withdrawn will be returned to their respective Holders as soon as possible.

GLOBAL COORDINATORS
Citigroup Global Markets Limited	Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc
Citigroup Centre	25 Cabot Square
Canada Square	Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf	London E14 4QA
London E14 5LB	United Kingdom
United Kingdom

JOINT DEALER MANAGERS

Citigroup Global Markets Limited	Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited
Citigroup Centre	One Cabot Square
Canada Square	Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf	London E14 4QJ
London E14 5LB	United Kingdom
United Kingdom
	U.S. Tel: [phone]
U.S. Toll Free: [phone]	Collect: [phone]
Collect: [phone]	In Europe: + 44 20 7888 8763 / [phone]
In Europe: [phone]	Attention: Liability Management Group
Attention: Liability Management Group	Email: [e-mail]
Email: [e-mail]
Goldman, Sachs & Co.	Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc
200 West Street	25 Cabot Square
New York, NY 10282	Canary Wharf
United States	London E14 4QA
	United Kingdom
U.S. Toll Free: [phone]	U.S. Toll Free: [phone]
Collect: [phone]	Collect: [phone]
In Europe: [phone]	In Europe: [phone]
Attention: Liability Management Group Email: [e-mail]	Attention: Liability Management Email: [e-mail]
UBS Securities LLC
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10019
United States of America
U.S. Toll Free: [phone]
Collect: [phone]
In Europe: [phone]
Attention: Liability Management Group Email: [e-mail]

THE INFORMATION AND TENDER AGENT

D.F. King & Co., Inc.

48 Wall Street, 22nd Floor New York, New York 10005 United States

Tel: [phone] / Toll Free: 1800 330 5897

By Facsimile: [phone] Attention: Andrew Beck

Confirmation: [phone] Email: [e-mail]

This announcement is released by Anglo American Capital plc and contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR), encompassing information relating to the Tender Offers, the Non-U.S. Offers and the New Issue described above. For the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, this announcement is made by John Mills (Group Company Secretary) at Anglo American Capital plc.

NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER

Subject to applicable law, the Company or any of its affiliates may at any time following cancellation of the Tender Offers purchase or exchange or offer to purchase or exchange remaining outstanding Securities or issue an invitation to submit offers to sell Securities (including, without limitation, those tendered pursuant to the Tender Offers but not accepted for purchase) through open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions, tender offers, exchange offers or otherwise, in each case on terms that may be more or less favorable than those contemplated by the Tender Offers.

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[1]               (LEI TINT358G1SSHR3L3PW36)

[2]               (LEI 549300S9XF92D1X8ME43)  

 

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