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Market Release | 10 November 2021
Auckland Airport announces terms sheet for retail bond issue
Further to Auckland International Airport Limited's announcement earlier today, the final terms sheet relating to the issue of unsecured, unsubordinated fixed rate bonds is attached.
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Final terms sheet for fixed rate bonds due 17 November 2026
This Terms Sheet is prepared in respect of an offer by Auckland International Airport Limited (Auckland Airport) of NZ$150,000,000 (Bonds) under its master trust deed dated 9 July 2004 (as amended and restated from time to time), as modified and supplemented by the supplemental trust deed dated 29 October 2021 entered into between Auckland International Airport Limited and The New Zealand Guardian Trust Company Limited (Supervisor) (together, Trust Documents).
Important Notice
The offer of Bonds is being made in reliance upon the exclusion in clause 19 of schedule 1 of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 (FMCA). Except for the interest rate and maturity date, the Bonds will have identical rights, privileges, limitations and conditions as Auckland Airport's:
- 4.28% NZ$100,000,000 fixed rate bonds maturing on 9 November 2022 which are quoted on the NZX Debt Market under the ticker code AIA200;
- 3.97% NZ$225,000,000 fixed rate bonds maturing on 2 November 2023 which are quoted on the NZX debt market under the ticker code AIA210;
- 3.64% NZ$100,000,000 fixed rate bonds maturing on 17 April 2023 which are quoted on the NZX debt market under the ticker code AIA220; and
- 3.51% NZ$150,000,000 fixed rate bonds maturing on 10 October 2024 which are quoted on the NZX debt market under the ticker code AIA230,
(together, Quoted Bonds) and therefore are of the same class as the Quoted Bonds for the purposes of the FMCA and the Financial Markets Conduct Regulations 2014 (FMC Regulations).
Auckland Airport is subject to a disclosure obligation that requires it to notify certain material information to NZX Limited (NZX) for the purpose of that information being made available to participants in the market and that information can be found by visiting https://www.nzx.com/companies/AIA.
Investors should look to the market price of the Quoted Bonds to find out how the market assesses the returns and risk premium for those bonds.
Dated 10 November 2021
Issuer | Auckland International Airport Limited. |
Description of Bonds | Direct, unsecured, unsubordinated, fixed rate debt obligations of |
Auckland Airport ranking equally and without preference among | |
themselves and equally with all other outstanding unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of Auckland Airport (except indebtedness preferred by law).
only | ||||
Purpose | General corporate purposes. | |||
Joint Lead Managers | Bank of New Zealand and Westpac Banking Corporation (ABN 33 | |||
007 457 141) (acting through its New Zealand Branch). | ||||
use | Credit Ratings | Expected Long-Term Issue Credit | Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating | |
Rating | ||||
A- S&P Global Ratings | A- S&P Global Ratings | |||
Further information about S&P Global Ratings credit rating scale is | ||||
personal | available at www.standardandpoors.com. A credit rating is not a | |||
recommendation to invest in the | Bonds and may be subject to | |||
revision, suspension or withdrawal at any time. | ||||
Issue Amount | NZ$150,000,000. | |||
Opening Date | Monday, 8 November 2021, immediately following release via NZX | |||
of the notice required by the FMC Regulations in connection with the | ||||
offer. | ||||
Closing Date | 12.00pm on Wednesday, 10 November 2021. | |||
Rate Set Date | Wednesday, 10 November 2021. | |||
For | ||||
Issue Date and allotment date | Wednesday, 17 November 2021. | |||
Maturity Date | Tuesday, 17 November 2026. | |||
Interest Rate | 3.29 per cent per annum, being the aggregate of the Base Rate and | |||
the Margin on the Rate Set Date. | ||||
Base Rate | The semi-annualmid-market swap rate for an interest rate swap of a | |||
term matching the period from the Issue Date to the Maturity Date | ||||
as calculated by the Joint Lead Managers in accordance with market | ||||
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convention with reference to Bloomberg page ICNZ4 on the Rate Set | ||||
Date and expressed on a semi-annual basis, rounded to 2 decimal | ||||
places, if necessary with 0.005 being rounded up. | ||||
only | ||||
Margin | 0.70 per cent per annum. | |||
Interest Payment Dates | 17 May and 17 November in each year until and including the | |||
Maturity Date. | ||||
use | First Interest Payment Date | 17 May 2022. | ||
Frequency | of | interest | Semi-annually (half annual amount) in arrears on each Interest | |
payments | Payment Date. | |||
If an Interest Payment Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, | ||||
the relevant payment will be made on the next day which is a | ||||
personal | Business Day, without adjustment, interest or further payment as a | |||
result thereof. | ||||
Issue price / Principal Amount | NZ$1.00 per Bond. | |||
Minimum | Principal | Amount | The Minimum Principal Amount and minimum holding amount in | |
and minimum holding amount | respect of the Bonds is NZ$10,000 and multiples of NZ$1,000 | |||
thereafter. | ||||
Record Date | 10 calendar days before an Interest Payment Date or, if not a | |||
Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day. | ||||
Business Day | A day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which registered banks | |||
For | are generally open for business in Wellington and Auckland. | |||
Quotation | The Bonds will be quoted under NZX Debt Market Ticker Code: | |||
AIA240. | ||||
Expected | date of | initial | It is expected that quotation on the NZX Debt Market will occur on | |
quotation and trading on the | Thursday, 18 November 2021. | |||
NZX Debt Market | ||||
Registrar | Link Market Services Limited. | |||
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ISIN | NZAIAD0240L9. | ||||
only | |||||
Repo-eligibility | Auckland Airport intends to apply to the Reserve Bank of New | ||||
Zealand for the Bonds to be included as eligible securities for | |||||
domestic market operations. | |||||
Early repayment | In the case of an event of default as set out in the Trust Documents, | ||||
which is continuing unremedied, the Supervisor may, and | |||||
immediately upon being directed to do so by an extraordinary | |||||
use | resolution | (as defined under the | Trust Documents) | of holders of | |
Bonds of this series must, declare the principal amount and accrued | |||||
interest on the Bonds to be immediately due and payable. | |||||
If the Bonds are declared due and payable prior to the Maturity Date, | |||||
interest will be payable at the Interest Rate from the most recent | |||||
Interest Payment Date to and including the date of repayment. | |||||
personal | |||||
them as to what arrangements will need to be put in place for the | |||||
Governing law | New Zealand. | ||||
Who may apply | All of the Bonds are reserved for clients of the Joint Lead Managers, | ||||
primary market participants and other approved financial | |||||
intermediaries. | |||||
There is no public pool for the offer. Investors wishing to purchase | |||||
the Bonds should contact their broker or financial adviser. In | |||||
respect of any oversubscriptions or generally, any allotment of Bonds | |||||
will be at Auckland Airport's discretion, in consultation with the Joint | |||||
Lead Managers. Auckland Airport reserves the right to refuse to | |||||
make any allotment (or part thereof) without giving any reason. | |||||
Each investor's broker or financial adviser will be able to advise | |||||
For | investor | to trade the Bonds | including obtaining | a common | |
shareholder number (CSN), an authorisation code (FIN) and opening | |||||
an account with a primary market participant as well as the costs | |||||
and timeframes for putting such arrangements in place. | |||||
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