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Citycon Group intends to issue NOK-denominated bond

CITYCON OYJ   Stock Exchange Release   13 September 2017 at 12.15 hrs
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Citycon Group intends to issue a NOK-denominated senior unsecured bond with a
maturity of eight years in an amount of up to NOK 1,000 million. The bond would
be offered mainly to Nordic institutional investors and would be issued by
Citycon Treasury B.V. and guaranteed by Citycon Oyj. Citycon Treasury B.V. would
apply for the bond to be admitted to the Official List of the Oslo Stock
Exchange (Oslo Børs) and to trading on its regulated market. It would be issued
under the issuer’s EUR 1,500,000,000 EMTN programme dated 18 July 2017.
The net proceeds from any potential bond issue would be used to refinance
existing debt and for general corporate purposes of the Group.
Citycon Group has mandated Nordea and SEB as lead managers. Citycon Group will
announce further information after the placement of the bond.
CITYCON OYJ
For further information, please contact:
Marcel Kokkeel, CEO
Tel. +358 40 154 6760
marcel.kokkeel@citycon.com
Eero Sihvonen, Executive Vice President and CFO
Tel. +358 50 557 9137
eero.sihvonen@citycon.com
Citycon Oyj (Nasdaq Helsinki: CTY1S) is a leading owner, developer and manager
of urban grocery-anchored shopping centres in the Nordic and Baltic regions,
managing assets that total approximately EUR 5 billion and with market
capitalisation of EUR 2 billion. For more information about Citycon, please
visit www.citycon.com
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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
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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.  Neither Citycon Oyj nor Citycon Treasury B.V. has 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 Citycon Oyj or Citycon Treasury B.V. 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 directed only at (i) persons who are outside the United
Kingdom or (ii) to investment professionals falling within the definition of
"investment professionals" in Article 19 of the Financial Services and Markets
Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the “Order”) or (iii)
high net worth companies, and other persons to whom it may lawfully be
communicated, falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all such
persons in (i), (ii) and (iii) above together being referred to as "relevant
persons").