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NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO, OR TO ANY PERSON LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN, ANY JURISDICTION WHERE IT IS UNLAWFUL TO RELEASE, PUBLISH OR DISTRIBUTE THIS DOCUMENT. THIS NOTICE OR THE ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION THEREOF DOES NOT CONSTITUTE OR FORM PART OF, AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS, AN OFFER FOR SALE, EXCHANGE OR SUBSCRIPTION OF, OR A SOLICITATION OF ANY OFFER TO BUY, EXCHANGE OR SUBSCRIBE FOR, ANY SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER OR ANY OTHER ENTITY IN ANY JURISDICTION.
THIS NOTICE CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION OF INTEREST TO THE REGISTERED AND BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF THE NOTES (AS DEFINED BELOW). IF APPLICABLE, ALL DEPOSITARIES, CUSTODIANS AND OTHER INTERMEDIARIES RECEIVING THIS NOTICE ARE REQUESTED TO PASS THIS NOTICE TO SUCH BENEFICIAL OWNERS IN A TIMELY MANNER.
UK MiFIR professionals/ECPs-only - Manufacturer target market (UK MiFIR product governance) is eligible counterparties and professional clients only (all distribution channels). No PRIIPs key information document (KID) has been prepared as the Notes referred to in this Notice are not available to retail investors in the EEA or in the UK.
If you are in any doubt as to the action you should take, you are recommended to seek your own financial and legal advice, including in respect of any tax consequences, immediately from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other financial, tax or legal adviser authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (if you are in the United Kingdom), or from another appropriately authorised independent financial adviser and such other professional advice from your own professional advisers as you deem necessary.
This Notice is addressed only to holders of the Notes (as defined below) and persons to whom it may otherwise be lawful to distribute it ("relevant persons"). It is directed only at relevant persons and must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not relevant persons. Any investment or investment activity to which this Notice relates is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons.
If you have recently sold or otherwise transferred your entire holding(s) of Notes referred to below, you should immediately forward this document to the purchaser or transferee or to the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser or transferee.
In accordance with normal practice, none of the Issuer, the Solicitation Agent, the Note Trustee, the Security Trustee, the Agents or their affiliates (or their respective directors, employees, officers, consultants or agents) expresses any view or opinion whatsoever as to the Proposed Base Rate Modification, the Proposed Amendments, the Amended Documents (each as defined below) or the information set out in this Notice; and none of the Solicitation Agent, the Note Trustee nor the Security Trustee makes any representation or recommendation whatsoever as to any action to be taken or not taken by Noteholders in relation to the Proposed Base Rate Modification, the Proposed Amendments, the Amended Documents or this Notice, or any document prepared in connection with any of them. Accordingly, the Issuer, the Solicitation Agent, the Note Trustee and the Security Trustee urge Noteholders who are in doubt as to the impact of the implementation of the Proposed Base Rate Modification, the Proposed Amendments, the Amended Documents or this Notice or any document prepared in connection with any of them (including any tax or other consequences), to seek their own independent financial, tax and legal advice. Each of the Issuer, the Note Trustee, the Security Trustee and the Solicitation Agent has not made, nor will they make, any assessment of the merits of the Proposed Base Rate Modification, the Proposed Amendments, the Amended Documents or this Notice or of the impact of the Proposed Base Rate Modification, the Proposed Amendments, the Amended Documents or this Notice on the interests of the Noteholders either as a class or as individuals.
GOSFORTH FUNDING 2017‑1 PLC8th Floor100 BishopsgateLondon EC2N 4AGUnited Kingdom(the "Issuer")
NOTICE IN RESPECT OF IMPLEMENTATION OF PROPOSED BASE RATE MODIFICATION
to the holders of the following notes of the Issuer presently outstanding
US$421,053,000 (current amount outstanding US$46,427,409) Class A1a Mortgage Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2059Reg S ISIN: XS1679333432; Rule 144A ISIN: US383121AA85; CUSIP: 383121 AA8(the "Class A1a Notes")
£222,726,000 (current amount outstanding £24,558,882) Class A1b Mortgage Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2059Reg S ISIN: XS1679333945; Rule 144A ISIN: XS1679334240(the "Class A1b Notes")
£473,685,000 (current amount outstanding £473,685,000) Class A2 Mortgage Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2059Reg S ISIN: XS1679335486; Rule 144A ISIN: XS1679335643(the "Class A2 Notes")
£46,073,000 (current amount outstanding £46,073,000) Class M Mortgage Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2059Reg S ISIN: XS1679337185; Rule 144A ISIN: XS1679337342(the "Class M Notes")
£97,904,000 (current amount outstanding £97,904,000) Class Z Mortgage Backed Fixed Rate Notes due 2059Reg S ISIN: XS1679337425; Rule 144A ISIN: XS1679337698(the "Class Z Notes")
(together, the "Noteholders" and the "Notes", respectively)
THIS NOTICE IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES THE IMMEDIATE ATTENTION OF NOTEHOLDERS.
We refer to (i) the notice dated 22 January 2021 given to the Noteholders of the Issuer's intention to effect the Proposed Base Rate Modification from the Effective Date (as defined below) (the Notice of Base Rate Modification), (ii) the notice dated 23 February 2021 notifying the Noteholders that Noteholders representing at least 10% of the aggregate Sterling Equivalent Principal Amount Outstanding of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding (being the Class A Notes) have not objected to the Proposed Base Rate Modification as at the Deadline (as defined therein) and (iii) the notice dated 24 February 2021 notifying Noteholders of the pricing information which was determined by the Solicitation Agent in accordance with Appendix 1 (Margin Adjustment Paper) of the Notice of Base Rate Modification.
Capitalised terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Notice of Base Rate Modification.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Issuer to the Noteholders in accordance with Condition 14 (Notice to Noteholders) that the requirements of Condition 11(F)(a)(iii) (Additional Right of Modification) have been satisfied and that the Amended Documents have been entered into by the Issuer in in order to effect the Proposed Base Rate Modification. The amendments contemplated by such Amended Documents will become effective on and from 19 March 2021 (the Effective Date).
For the avoidance of doubt, the reference rate applicable to the Relevant Notes up (to but excluding) the Effective Date shall continue to be 3 month GBP LIBOR and the interest payment made on the Effective Date in respect of the Relevant Notes will not be affected by the Proposed Base Rate Modification.
Further information can be obtained directly from Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets plc in capacity as solicitation agent (the Solicitation Agent) and Lucid Issuer Services Limited as tabulation agent (the Tabulation Agent) as set out below.
Contact Details:
Issuer:
Gosforth Funding 2017‑1 plc8th Floor100 BishopsgateLondon EC2N 4AG
Email: corpservices@lawdeb.com
Attention: Mark Filer / Rich Lynn
With a copy to:
Clydesdale Bank PLC30 St Vincent Place
Glasgow
G1 2HL
Email: TreasuryFunding@Virginmoney.com
Attention: Treasury Funding
Solicitation Agent:
Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets plc10 Gresham StreetLondon EC2V 7AEUnited Kingdom
Tel: +44 20 7158 1726 / 1719
Email: liability.management@lloydsbanking.com
Attention: Liability Management
Tabulation Agent:
Lucid Issuer Services LimitedTankerton Works12 Argyle WalkLondon WC1H 8HAUnited Kingdom
Tel: +44 20 7704 0880
Attention: Owen Morris
Email: virginmoney@lucid‑is.com
This Notice is given by
GOSFORTH FUNDING 2017‑1 PLC
as Issuer
Dated 25 February 2021