Citycon Oyj - Company Announcement

Citycon Group successfully places EUR 300 million Eurobond

CITYCON OYJ Stock Exchange Release 8 September 2015 at  17.30 hrs

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Citycon Group has successfully placed a EUR 300 million Eurobond (the "Bond").
The issuer of the Bond is Citycon Treasury B.V. and the guarantor is Citycon
Oyj. The 7-year guaranteed euro-denominated Bond matures on 16 September 2022
and carries fixed annual interest at the rate of 2.375 per cent, payable
annually on 16 September. 

Citycon Treasury B.V. has applied for the Bond to be admitted to the Official
List of the Irish Stock Exchange and to trade on its regulated market. The Bond
has been rated BBB by Standard & Poor's and Baa2 by Moody's, in line with
Citycon's corporate credit rating. 

The proceeds from the offering will mainly be used to prepay in part the
existing indebtedness of Sektor in relation to Citycon's acquisition of Sektor
Gruppen AS. Citycon Group may also use the proceeds of the Bond for general
corporate purposes, to repay existing indebtedness, for the development of
existing properties, to acquire new properties or to increase its shareholdings
in its existing joint ventures. 

Executive Vice President and CFO Eero Sihvonen: ''The market reception of the
Eurobond was strong and the Bond was allocated to a broad base of European
investors. The transaction was oversubscribed and closed within a few hours.
Following this Eurobond and the NOK bonds issued a few weeks ago, the majority
of the bridge debt for the Sektor acquisition has been refinanced.” 

Danske Bank, Deutsche Bank, Nordea Markets and Pohjola Markets acted as joint
lead managers. 


Helsinki, 8 September 2015


CITYCON OYJ


For further information, please contact:
Marcel Kokkeel, CEO
Tel +358 20 766 4521 or +358 40 154 6760
marcel.kokkeel@citycon.com

Eero Sihvonen, CFO, Executive Vice President
Tel. +358 20 766 4459 or +358 40 557 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 a market
capitalisation of approximately EUR 2 billion. For more information about
Citycon, please visit www.citycon.com 


Important regulatory notice

This announcement does not constitute or form part of an offer or invitation to
sell or issue, or any solicita-tion 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
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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
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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
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Kingdom or (ii) to investment professionals  falling within the definition of"investment professionals" in Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and
Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 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").