Globalworth Regulatory News (GWI)

23 March 2018

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This announcement shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the securities referred to herein in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration, exemption from registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.

The information communicated within this announcement is deemed to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014. Upon the publication of this announcement, this information is considered to be in the public domain.

Manufacturer target market (MIFID II product governance) will be eligible counterparties and professional clients only (all distribution channels). No PRIIPs key information document (KID) has been prepared as not available to retail in EEA.

Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited

("Globalworth" or the "Company")

Issuance of €550 million senior unsecured notes with 7-year maturity under its €1.5 billion EMTN programme  

Globalworth (AIM: GWI), a leading real estate investment company focused on the CEE region, has successfully priced €550 million notes due 2025 (the "Notes") under its €1.5 billion Euro Medium Term Notes programme (the "Programme"). The Notes are unsecured obligations of the Company, denominated in EUR and carry a fixed interest rate of 3.0 per cent payable annually beginning on 29 March 2019. The Notes were issued at a price of 99.225 per cent. The Notes are the first drawdown under the Programme.

The Company has applied for the Notes to be admitted to the Official List of the Irish Stock Exchange and to trading on its regulated market and will also apply for the Notes to be admitted to trading on the regulated market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange. The Notes have been rated Ba1 by Moody's and BBB- by Fitch.

The net proceeds from the offering will be applied by Globalworth for its general corporate purposes.

Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc and UBS Limited acted as the Joint Lead Managers and Bookrunners for the Notes.

For further information visit www.globalworth.com or contact:

Enquiries

Andrew Cox Tel: +44 20 3026 4027

Head of Investor Relations & Corporate Development 

Jefferies (Joint Broker) Tel: +44 20 7029 8000

Stuart Klein

Panmure Gordon (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Tel: +44 20 7886 2500

Andrew Potts

Milbourne (Public Relations) Tel: +44 7903 802545

Tim Draper

About Globalworth / Note to Editors: 

Globalworth is an AIM-listed real estate company active in Central and Eastern Europe. It has become the leading office investor in the Romanian real estate market and now has established a significant platform in Poland, through a 72% shareholding in Griffin Premium R.E.. N.V. (GPRE), a pure-play Polish real estate platform listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Globalworth acquires, develops and directly manages high-quality office and logistics/light-industrial real estate assets in prime locations, through which it benefits from a strong rental income profile from high quality tenants from around the globe. Managed by approximately 110 professionals across Romania and Poland, the combined value of its portfolio is €1.8 billion, of which over 90% is in income-producing assets, predominately in the office sector, and leased to some 440 national and multinational corporates from 28 countries and 37 different sectors. In Romania, Globalworth is present in Bucharest, Timisoara and Pitesti, whilst assets in Poland span Warsaw, Wroclaw, Lodz, Krakow, Gdansk and Katowice.

 IMPORTANT NOTICE:

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or invitation to sell or issue, or any solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe for, any securities in the United States or any other jurisdiction nor shall it (or any part of this announcement) or the fact of its distribution form the basis of, or be relied upon in connection with, or act as any inducement to enter into, any contract or commitment. Recipients of this announcement who intend to purchase any securities are reminded that any such purchase or subscription must be made solely on the basis of the information contained in any final form prospectus published in connection with any such securities, which if and when published will be available on the website of the Central Bank of Ireland. The transaction described above and the distribution on of this announcement and other information in connection with the transaction in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law and persons into whose possession any document or other information referred to herein comes should inform themselves about and observe any such restriction. Any failure to comply with these restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.

This communication is not an offer of securities for sale in the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan or any other jurisdiction where to do so would be unlawful. Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited has not registered, or intends to register, securities in any of these jurisdictions or to conduct an offer of securities for sale in any of these jurisdictions. In particular, no securities of Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited have been or will be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and such securities may not be offered, sold or delivered within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and in compliance with any applicable state securities laws.

This announcement is not directed at retail clients (as defined in the Product Intervention (Contingent Convertible Instruments and Mutual Society Shares) Instrument 2015) in the European Economic Area ("EEA"). The notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the EEA. For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, "MiFID II"); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive 2002/92/EC ("IMD"), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II. Consequently no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (the "PRIIPs Regulation") for offering or selling the notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation.

Solely for the purposes of each manufacturer's product approval process, the target market assessment in respect of the notes has led to the conclusion that: (i) the target market for the notes is eligible counterparties and professional clients only, each as defined in MiFID II; and (ii) all channels for distribution of the notes to eligible counterparties and professional clients are appropriate. Any person subsequently offering, selling or recommending the notes (a "distributor") should take into consideration the manufacturers' target market assessment; however, a distributor subject to MiFID II is responsible for undertaking its own target market assessment in respect of the notes (by either adopting or refining the manufacturers' target market assessment) and determining appropriate distribution channels.