Veolia Successfully Issues a 8-year Bond for Eur 700 MillionIn a context where financial markets (and especially credit markets) experience high...
Published on by Trudi Schifter, CEO and Founder AquaSPE
In a context where financial markets (and especially credit markets) experience high volatility, Veolia (Paris:VIE) took advantage of a constructive market window to issue EUR 700 million bond with a April 2028 maturity. This bond bears a coupon of 1.25 % and was issued at par.
The transaction quickly generated strong interest from the investor base and the size of the orderbook grew up to EUR 5.8 billion, which enabled Veolia to materially improve the issuing rate and achieve a final pricing which was very close to the secondary market.
The high oversubscription rate, the quality of the investors in the order book, their good diversification (over 240 orders from Europe and Asia) and the good conditions which were achieved are signals of the significant appreciation of Veolia’s credit quality. This transaction demonstrates Veolia’s ability to tap the financial markets with very good and to strengthen its liquidity, even in times of increased volatility and uncertainty about global economy.
The proceeds of this issuance will be used for Corporate General Purposes, and in particular as an anticipation of the maturity of some bonds happening at the end of 2020.
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