TIDM17LI

RNS Number : 5349B

Marks & Spencer PLC

02 June 2023

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT RELATES TO THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION THAT QUALIFIED OR MAY HAVE QUALIFIED AS INSIDE INFORMATION WITHIN THE MEANING OF ARTICLE 7 OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU) 596/2014 AS IT FORMS PART OF UK DOMESTIC LAW BY VIRTUE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018 (EUWA).

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO OR TO ANY PERSON LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ITS TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS (INCLUDING PUERTO RICO, THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS, GUAM, AMERICAN SAMOA, WAKE ISLAND AND THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS), ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (THE UNITED STATES) OR TO ANY U.S. PERSON OR IN OR INTO ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE IT IS UNLAWFUL TO RELEASE, PUBLISH OR DISTRIBUTE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT

Marks and Spencer plc announces results of tender offers for its outstanding:

GBP300,000,000 3.000 per cent. Notes due 2023 (XS1531151253)

(the 2023 Notes)

and

GBP400,000,000 4.750 per cent. Notes due 2025 ( XS0863523030 )

(the 2025 Notes)

and

GBP300,000,000 3.750 per cent. Notes due 2026 ( XS2258453369 )

(the 2026 Notes and, together with the 2023 Notes and the 2025 Notes, the Notes and each a Series)

2 June 2023.

Marks and Spencer plc (the Company) announces today the results of its invitation to holders of its outstanding Notes to tender their Notes for purchase by the Company for cash (each, an Offer and together, the Offers). The Company announced the indicative results of the 2025 Notes Offer and 2026 Notes Offer earlier today.

The Offers were announced on 24 May 2023 and were made on terms and subject to the conditions contained in the tender offer memorandum dated 24 May 2023 (the Tender Offer Memorandum). Capitalised terms used in this announcement but not defined have the meanings given to them in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Results of the Offers

2023 Notes

The 2023 Notes Offer expired at 4:00 p.m. (London time) on 1 June 2023 (the Expiration Deadline). As at the Expiration Deadline, GBP57,432,000 in aggregate principal amount of 2023 Notes was validly tendered for purchase pursuant to the 2023 Notes Offer.

The Company hereby announces that it has decided to accept for purchase in cash all 2023 Notes validly tendered pursuant to the 2023 Notes Offer in full . The final results of the 2023 Notes Offer are as follows:

 
                                 Aggregate 
                                  Nominal 
                                 Amount of 
                                   Notes 
                                  tendered 
                                    and                       Accrued        Outstanding Nominal      Outstanding Nominal 
                                  accepted     Purchase       Interest              Amount                  Amount 
 Description of                     for       Price (per    Payment (per    (before the Settlement   (after the Settlement 
   the Notes          ISIN        purchase      cent.)       GBP1,000)              Date)                    Date) 
 GBP300,000,000 
   3.000 per 
  cent.* Notes                      GBP 
    due 2023      XS1531151253   57,432,000     99.40        GBP 20.96          GBP185,540,000          GBP128,108,000 
 

* currently paying out a coupon of 4.250 per cent., including a Step Up Margin of 1.25 per cent. per annum following the occurrence of a Step Up

Rating Change as that term is defined in the final terms for the Notes.

2025 Notes and 2026 Notes

Pricing for the 2025 Notes Offer and the 2026 Notes Offer took place at or around midday (London time) today. The Company announces that it has set the 2025 Notes and 2026 Notes Final Acceptance Amount at GBP 219,417,000. A summary of the pricing and the final results for the 2025 Notes Offer and the 2026 Notes Offer appears below:

 
                                      Aggregate                         Scaling                                  Accrued        Outstanding Nominal      Outstanding Nominal 
                                   Nominal Amount        Series          Factor      Purchase     Purchase       Interest              Amount                  Amount 
 Description of                       of Notes         Acceptance         (per      Yield (per   Price (per    Payment (per    (before the Settlement   (after the Settlement 
    the Notes          ISIN           tendered           Amount          cent.)       cent.)       cent.)       GBP1,000)              Date)                    Date) 
 GBP400,000,000 
    4.750 per 
  cent.** Notes                                                           Not 
     due 2025      XS0863523030    GBP120,944,000    GBP120,944,000    Applicable     6.422        99.222       GBP 59.01          GBP324,570,000          GBP203,626,000 
 GBP300,000,000 
    3.750 per 
   cent. Notes 
     due 2026      XS2258453369    GBP107,173,000     GBP98,473,000      98.90        6.906        91.820        GBP 1.84          GBP300,000,000          GBP201,527,000 
 

** currently paying out a coupon of 6.000 per cent., including a Step Up Margin of 1.25 per cent. per annum following the occurrence of a Step Up

Rating Change as that term is defined in the final terms for the Notes.

General

The Settlement Date in respect of the Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offers is expected to be 6 June 2023.

Following the Settlement Date:

   (i)   GBP128,108,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the 2023 Notes will remain outstanding; 

(ii) GBP203,626,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the 2025 Notes will remain outstanding; and

(iii) GBP201,527,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the 2026 Notes will remain outstanding.

The Dealer Managers

BNP Paribas

16, Boulevard des Italiens

75009 Paris

France

Telephone: +33 1 55 77 78 94

Attention: Liability Management Group

Email: liability.management@bnpparibas.com

NatWest Markets Plc

250 Bishopsgate

London EC2M 4AA

United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 20 7678 5222

Attention: Liability Management

Email: NWMLiabilityManagement@natwestmarkets.com

The Tender Agent

Kroll Issuer Services Limited

The Shard

32 London Bridge Street

London SE1 9SG

United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 20 7704 0880

Attention: David Shilson

Email: marksandspencer@is.kroll.com

Website: https://deals.is.kroll.com/marksandspencer

This announcement is released by Marks and Spencer plc and contains information that qualified or may have qualified as inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR), as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (UK MAR), encompassing information relating to the Offers described above. For the purposes of UK MAR and Article 2 of the binding technical standards published by the Financial Conduct Authority in relation to MAR as regards Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, this announcement is made by Jeremy Townsend, Chief Financial Officer at Marks and Spencer plc.

DISCLAIMER This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender Offer Memorandum. No offers or invitation to acquire any securities is being made pursuant to this announcement. The distribution of this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession this announcement and/or the Tender Offer Memorandum comes are required by each of the Company, the Dealer Managers and the Tender Agent to inform themselves about, and to observe, any such restrictions.

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