Credit Facility

RNS Number : 2667H

J.P. Morgan Private Equity Ltd

09 July 2012

 

JPEL ANNOUNCES the extension of

$150 Million MULTI-CURRENCY CREDIT FACILITY
WITH LLOYDS BANK CORPORATE MARKETS

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GUERNSEY, 9 JULY 2012

J.P. Morgan Private Equity Limited ("JPEL" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has closed the previously announced extension of its multi-currency credit facility with Lloyds TSB Bank plc.  

The facility will now expire in January 2017 and contains similar covenants to the Company's existing $150 million multi-currency facility which was due to expire in May 2013.  Key terms of the proposed facility include:

·      LIBOR / EURIBOR +280bps for a loan to value ratio (LTV) of less than or equal to 10%, with no LIBOR floor

·      LIBOR / EURIBOR +330bps for a LTV ratio of greater than 10%, with no LIBOR floor

The Company believes that the extension of the facility will provide JPEL with increased financial flexibility to support its strategic initiatives over the next several years.

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About J.P. Morgan Private Equity Limited

J.P. Morgan Private Equity Limited is a Guernsey registered and incorporated, London Stock Exchange-listed, closed-ended investment company (LSE: JPEL, JPEZ, JPZZ, JPSZ) designed primarily to invest in the global private equity market.  The investment objective of the Company is to achieve both short and long-term capital appreciation by investing in a well diversified portfolio of private equity fund interests and by capitalising on the inefficiencies of the secondary private equity market.  On 17 August 2009, JPEL issued warrants free of subscription cost to shareholders on record.  The warrants are publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol "JPWW."

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For further information please contact:

J.P. Morgan Private Equity Limited

Troy Duncan / Greg Getschow  

[e-mail] / [e-mail]  

Rosemary DeRise / Samantha Ladd

[phone] / [phone]  

[e-mail] / [e-mail]

Peregrine Communications

Anthony Payne / Max Hilton

[phone]  

[e-mail] / [e-mail]  

For Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets

Louise Riordan

Financial Dynamics

+ 44 (0)20 7269 9308 / 07515 597 556

[e-mail]

 

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