Metsä Group - Company Announcement

Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority has approved Metsäliitto Cooperative’s listing prospectus for a bond

Metsä Group Stock Exchange Release 29 November 2012 at 6.30 pm EET


NOT FOR PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE
UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, HONG KONG, JAPAN OR SINGAPORE OR ANY OTHER
JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. 


Metsä Group's parent company Metsäliitto Cooperative announced its decision to
issue a bond of EUR 175 million on 22 November 2012. The bond matures on 29
November 2017 and carries a fixed coupon interest rate of 5.125 per cent per
annum. 

The Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority has today approved the prospectus
drawn up for listing the bond. The prospectus will be made available in English
as from 30 November 2012 on the company's website at
www.metsagroup.com/Financial/Investopportunities. 

NASDAQ OMX Helsinki is expected to admit the bond to public trading as from 30
November 2012. 

Nordea Markets and Pohjola Markets act as joint arrangers and bookrunners for
the transaction. Castrén & Snellman Attorneys Ltd acts as the legal advisor for
the transaction. 


METSÄLIITTO COOPERATIVE

For further information, please contact:
Vesa-Pekka Takala, CFO, Metsä Group, tel. +358 (0)10 465 4260


www.metsagroup.com

Metsä Group is a responsible forest industry group. Our products are part of
people's everyday life, promoting sustainable well-being. Metsä Group produces
high-quality products mainly from renewable Nordic wood. The Group's business
areas are tissue and cooking papers, board and paper, pulp, wood products as
well as wood supply. Metsä Group's sales totalled EUR 5.3 billion in 2011, and
it employs approximately 12,500 people. The Group operates in some 30
countries. 


This release is for informational purposes only and is not to be construed as
an offer to purchase or sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase or sell
with respect to any bond. The distribution of this release and the related
material concerning the issuance of the bond are prohibited by law in certain
countries. The bond is not being offered to the public either inside or outside
of Finland. Persons resident outside of Finland may receive this release and
the related bond documentation only in compliance with applicable exemptions or
restrictions. Persons into whose possession this release and the related bond
documentation may come are required to inform themselves about and comply with
such restrictions. This release and the related bond documentation may not be
distributed or published in any country or jurisdiction if to do so would
constitute a violation of the relevant laws of such jurisdiction or would
require actions under the laws of a state or jurisdiction other than Finland,
including the United States, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan or Singapore.
The information contained herein shall not constitute an offer to sell or
tender, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell the bond to any persons in
any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale or tender would be
unlawful. Metsäliitto Cooperative's representatives assume no legal
responsibility for such violations, regardless of whether the parties
contemplating investing in or divesting Metsäliitto Cooperative's bond are
aware of these restrictions or not. Metsäliitto Cooperative's bond has not been
and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, nor under any
securities legislation of any state in the United States, and it may not be
offered, sold, resold delivered, distributed, bought or transferred in the
United States or to US citizens or on behalf of US citizens, except pursuant to
an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933
and any applicable state law legislation.