PIC plc Announces Final Results of Tender Offers

Pension Insurance Corporation PLC

13 November 2023

 

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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 AS IT FORMS PART OF UK DOMESTIC LAW BY VIRTUE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018 (EUWA).

Pension Insurance Corporation plc announces final results of its tender offers for its £300,000,000 6.50 per cent. Fixed Rate Subordinated Notes due 2024 and its £250,000,000 8.00 per cent. Fixed Rate Subordinated Notes due 2026

13 November 2023.

Pension Insurance Corporation plc (the Company) announces today the final results of its separate invitations to holders of its outstanding (a) £300,000,000 6.50 per cent. Fixed Rate Subordinated Notes due 2024 (ISIN: XS1083983376) (the 2024 Notes); and (b) £250,000,000 8.00 per cent. Fixed Rate Subordinated Notes due 2026 (ISIN: XS1523966197) (the 2026 Notes and, together with the 2024 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 6 November 2023 and were made on the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the tender offer memorandum dated 6 November 2023 (the Tender Offer Memorandum) including, without limitation, the satisfaction (or waiver) of the New Financing Condition.

Capitalised terms used in this announcement but not 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 10 November 2023.

Final Acceptance Amount

The Company confirms that the Final Acceptance Amount is £300,000,000, to be allocated between the 2024 Notes and the 2026 Notes as set out below.

2024 Notes

Subject to the satisfaction (or waiver) of the New Financing Condition, the Company will accept for purchase 2024 Notes validly tendered pursuant to the relevant Offer subject to pro rata scaling at a Pro-ration Factor of 51.779 per cent., as further described in the Tender Offer Memorandum. Accordingly, the relevant Series Acceptance Amount is £97,374,000.

A summary of the final results of the Offer for the 2024 Notes appears below:

Series Acceptance Amount	Pro-ration Factor	Purchase Price
£97,374,000	51.779 per cent.	100.25 per cent.

2026 Notes

Subject to the satisfaction (or waiver) of the New Financing Condition, the Company will accept for purchase all 2026 Notes validly tendered pursuant to the relevant Offer with no pro rata scaling. Accordingly, the relevant Series Acceptance Amount is £202,626,000.

The Company also confirms that the Purchase Price it will pay for the 2026 Notes validly tendered and accepted for purchase will be 104.265 per cent. (based on a Settlement Date of 14 November 2023).

A summary of the final results of, and pricing for, the Offer for the 2026 Notes appears below:

Series Acceptance Amount	Pro-ration Factor	Benchmark Security Rate	Purchase Spread	Purchase Yield (semi-annual)	Purchase Yield (annual)	Purchase Price
£202,626,000	N/A	4.303per cent.	200 bps	6.303 per cent.	6.402 per cent.	104.265 per cent.

General

Subject to the satisfaction (or waiver) of the New Financing Condition, the Settlement Date in respect of the Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offers is expected to be 14 November 2023. Following settlement of the Offers and cancellation of the relevant Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offers, £202,626,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the 2024 Notes and £47,374,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the 2026 Notes will remain outstanding.

The Company will also pay an Accrued Interest Payment in respect of Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the relevant Offer.

Barclays Bank PLC (Tel: [phone]; Attention: Liability Management Group; Email: [e-mail]); Citigroup Global Markets Limited (Tel: [phone]; Attention: Liability Management Group; Email: [e-mail]); HSBC Bank plc (Tel: [phone]; Attention: Liability Management, DCM; Email: [e-mail]) and J.P. Morgan Securities plc (Tel: [phone]; Attention: EMEA Liability Management Group; Email: [e-mail]) are acting as Dealer Managers in respect of the Offers.

Kroll Issuer Services Limited (Tel: [phone]; Attention: Owen Morris; Email: [e-mail]; Offer Website: https://deals.is.kroll.com/pic) is acting as Tender Agent in respect of the Offer.

This announcement is made by Pension Insurance Corporation 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 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (UK MAR), encompassing information relating to the Offers described above. For the purposes of UK MAR and the Implementing Technical Standards, this announcement is made by Louise Inward, General Counsel at the Company.

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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 comes are required by each of the Company, the Dealer Managers and the Tender Agent to inform themselves about, and to observe, any such restrictions.

 

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