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In accordance with Clause 11.4 (Mandatory repurchase due to a Change of Control, a De-listing or Listing Failure (put option)) under the terms and conditions of the Bond Loans (the “Terms and Conditions”), the Sale, following its completion, will constitute a Change of Control due to SBB acquiring more than 50.0 per cent. of the votes of the Issuer. In such case, the Issuer is required under the Terms and Conditions to send a notice to the Bondholders with information regarding each of the Bondholder’s right to request that all, or only some, of its Bonds shall be repurchased by the Issuer (whereby the Issuer shall have the obligation to repurchase such Bonds) at a price per Bond equal to 101.0 per cent. of the Nominal Amount together with accrued but unpaid Interest during a period of thirty (30) calendar days following such notice from the Issuer. The Issuer informs that should the Sale be completed, it will send such notice including the instructions about the actions that a Bondholder needs to take if it wishes Bonds held by it to be repurchased in accordance with the Terms and Conditions. Any capitalised term in this section not otherwise defined herein shall have the same meaning ascribed to it in the Terms and Conditions.
Following the announcement of the Sale, the rating agency Nordic Credit Rating has announced that it has placed the Issuer’s previously obtained rating of “BB” long-term issuer rating on watch with positive implications and at the same time confirms the “BB” long-term and “N-1” short-term issuer ratings on the Issuer.
The watch placement signals a high likelihood of a one- or two-notch upgrade in the next 90 days pending the outcome of an anticipated offer by SBB to the remaining shareholders in the Issuer.
As a consequence of this announcement, the Sale will not trigger a Rating Downgrade under the terms and conditions of the Capital Securities and therefore not result in a voluntary redemption option for the Issuer in accordance with Clause 12.5 (Voluntary redemption due to Change of Control) or a Change of Control Step-up in accordance with Clause 10.4 (Step-up after a Change of Control) of the terms and conditions of the Capital Securities. Any capitalised term in this section not otherwise defined herein shall have the same meaning ascribed to it in the terms and conditions of the Capital Securities. For more information, please see Nordic Credit Rating’s announcement in the following link: https://nordiccreditrating.com/article/offentliga-hus-i-norden-ab-publ-bb-long-term-issuer-rating-watch-positive-0
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