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ANGLO AMERICAN PLC - Anglo American Capital plc announces final results and pricing of tender offers for certain of its notes

Release Date: 21/09/2017 15:25
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Anglo American Capital plc announces final results and pricing of tender offers for certain of its notes

Anglo American plc
Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AN
Registered number: 3564138 (incorporated in England and Wales)
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300S9XF92D1X8ME43
ISIN: GBOOB1XZS820
JSE Share Code: AGL
NSX Share Code: ANM

      Anglo American Capital plc announces final results and pricing of Tender Offers for certain of its Notes

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF ARTICLE 7 OF
THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU) 596/2014.

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO OR TO ANY PERSON LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (INCLUDING ITS TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS) OR IN ANY
OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE IT IS UNLAWFUL TO DISTRIBUTE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT (SEE
"DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS" BELOW)

Further to its indicative results announcement earlier today, Anglo American Capital plc1 (the “Company”)
announces the final results and pricing of its invitations to holders of such of its outstanding notes as are
listed below (together, the “Notes”) to tender to the Company for purchase by the Company for cash (the
“Tender Offers”) (i) any and all of the Any and All Notes listed below and (ii) the Capped Notes listed
below for an aggregate consideration of up to the Capped Spend Amount, in each case upon the terms and
subject to the conditions set out in the tender offer memorandum dated 13 September 2017 (the “Tender
Offer Memorandum”) prepared by the Company. The Tender Offers expired at 16:00 hours (London time)
on 20 September 2017. Capitalised terms used but not defined in this announcement have the meanings
given to them in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

The Company hereby announces it will accept for purchase all validly tendered Notes pursuant to the Tender
Offers on the basis of (i) the Any and All Notes Acceptance Amount; and (ii) the Series Acceptance
Amounts for each series of Capped Notes set out in the table below, which also includes the relevant
Purchase Price, Accrued Interest and, in respect of the Fixed Spread Notes accepted for purchase, the
relevant Reference Rate:

      Notes               ISIN       Reference    Purchase     Purchase        Purchase     Series Acceptance   Pro-Rating   Accrued       Aggregate
                                       Rate        Yield        Spread          Price           Amounts           Factor     Interest       nominal
                                                                                                                                            amount
                                                                                                                                          outstanding
                                                                                                                                           after the
                                                                                                                                        Settlement Date

Any and All Notes


€600,000,000 1.500    XS1211292484   -0.106 per    0.044 per    15 bps        103.661 per     €394,631,000        N/A        0.73 per    €205,369,000
per cent. Notes due                     cent.       cent.                        cent.                                        cent.
1 April 2020
(the “Notes due
April 2020”)
Capped Notes

€750,000,000 2.500    XS0830380639      N.A.      -0.150 per     N.A.         102.603 per     €88,948,000         N.A.       0.05 per    €159,832,000
per cent. Notes due                                  cent.                       cent.                                         cent.
18 September 2018
(the “Notes due
September 2018”)
€750,000,000 2.750    XS0789283792      N.A.      -0.100 per     N.A.         104.848 per     €216,508,000        N.A.       0.83 per    €357,496,000
per cent. Notes due                                  cent.                       cent.                                         cent.
7 June 2019
(the “Notes due
June 2019”)




1
              (LEI TINT358G1SSHR3L3PW36)


                                                                          
€600,000,000 2.875    XS0995040051   -0.024 per    0.176 per    20 bps        108.479 per      €245,723,000       N.A.       2.43 per    €354,277,000
per cent. Notes due                     cent.        cent.                      cent.                                         cent.
20 November 2020
(the “Notes due
November 2020”)



Settlement

Settlement of the Tender Offers and payment of the Tender Consideration in respect of Notes accepted for
purchase is expected to take place on 25 September 2017.

Notes that have not been tendered or accepted for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offers will remain
outstanding.

Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, MUFG Securities
EMEA plc and UniCredit Bank AG are acting as Joint Dealer Managers for the Tender Offers and Lucid
Issuer Services Limited is acting as Tender Agent.


                                                    JOINT DEALER MANAGERS

                Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft                                     Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
                  Mainzer Landstrasse 151-153                                                12, Place des Etats-Unis
                DLZ-Geb. 1, CC-APM DCM Bonds                                                        CS 70052
                    60327 Frankfurt am Main                                                  92547 Montrouge Cedex
                  Federal Republic of Germany                                                        France

                    Tel: +49 69 136 59920                                                       Tel: +44 207 214 5733
               Attention: Liability Management                                           Attention: Liability Management
         Email: liability.management@commerzbank.com                                  Email: liability.management@ca-cib.com

                      MUFG Securities EMEA plc                                                  UniCredit Bank AG
                          Ropemaker Place                                                        Arabellastrasse 12
                        25 Ropemaker Street                                                      D-81925 Munich
                         London EC2Y 9AJ                                                             Germany
                          United Kingdom

            Tel: +44 207 577 4048/+44 207 577 4218                                             Tel: +49 89 378 13722
             Attention: Liability Management Group                                        Attention: Liability Management
                Email: DCM-LM@int.sc.mufg.jp                                              Email: corporate.lm@unicredit.de



                                                          THE TENDER AGENT

                                                     Lucid Issuer Services Limited
                                                           Tankerton Works
                                                            12 Argyle Walk
                                                         London WC1H 8HA
                                                           United Kingdom

                                                         Tel: +44 20 7704 0880
                                              Attention: Thomas Choquet / David Shilson
                                                 Email: angloamerican@lucid-is.com



This announcement is released by Anglo American Capital plc and contains inside information for the purposes
of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR), encompassing information relating to the
Tender Offers described above. For the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission Implementing


                                                                        
Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, this announcement is made by John Mills (Group Company Secretary) at Anglo
American Capital plc.

DISCLAIMER

Subject to applicable law, the Company or any of its affiliates may at any time following completion of the
Tender Offers purchase remaining outstanding Notes by tender, in the open market, by private agreement or
otherwise on such terms and at such prices as the Company, or if applicable, its affiliates may determine.
Such terms, consideration and prices may be more or less favourable than those offered pursuant to the
Tender Offers.

This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender Offer Memorandum. If any Noteholder is in
any doubt as to the content of this announcement or the Tender Offer Memorandum or the action it should
take, it is recommended to seek its own financial advice, including in respect of any tax consequences, from
its broker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other independent financial, tax or legal adviser.

DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS

The distribution of this announcement and/or 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 Joint Dealer Managers and the Tender Agent to inform
themselves about, and to observe, any such restrictions. Neither this announcement nor the Tender Offer
Memorandum constitutes an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell Notes or an invitation to
participate in the Tender Offers.


21 September 2017

Sponsor
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)




                                                     

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