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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: 15/03/2018 16:30
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Anglo American Capital plc announces final results and pricing of Tender Offers for certain of its Notes

Anglo American plc (the "Company")
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)

15 March 2018.

Further to its indicative results announcement earlier today, Anglo American Capital plc 1 (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") for an aggregate consideration of up to the Total Funds Available, in each case upon the
terms and subject to the conditions set out in the tender offer memorandum dated 7 March 2018 (the
"Tender Offer Memorandum") prepared by the Company. The Tender Offers expired at 16:00 hours (London time) 
on 14 March 2018. 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 the Series Acceptance Amounts for each series of Notes set out in the table below,
which also includes the relevant Purchase Price, the relevant Purchase Yield, 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

€750,000,000 2.750    XS0789283792     N.A.       -0.2 per      N.A.     103.605 per     €78,075,000         N.A.       2.14726      €279,421,000
per cent. Notes due                                 cent.                   cent.                                       per cent.
    7 June 2019
  (the "Notes due
    June 2019")

  €600,000,000        XS1211292484     N.A.        0.0 per      N.A.     103.053 per     €66,769,000         N.A.       1.44658      €138,600,000
 1.500 per cent.                                    cent.                   cent.                                       per cent.
Notes due 1 April
      2020
(the "Notes due
  April 2020")

€600,000,000 2.875    XS0995040051   -0.018 per   0.032 per    5 bps     107.598 per     €73,742,000         N.A.       0.93733      €280,535,000
per cent. Notes due                     cent.       cent.                   cent.                                       per cent.
20 November 2020
  (the "Notes due
 November 2020")

  €750,000,000        XS0923361827   0.065 per    0.135 per    7 bps     107.340 per     €372,181,000        N.A.       2.21918      €377,819,000
 2.500 per cent.                       cent.        cent.                   cent.                                       per cent.
  Notes due 29
 April 2021 (the
"Notes due April
     2021")



1    (LEI TINT358G1SSHR3L3PW36)
               
The aggregate nominal amount of validly tendered Notes the Company will therefore accept for purchase
pursuant to the Tender Offers is €590,767,000 (US$728,917,863 equivalent).

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 19 March 2018.

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

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., Banco Santander, S.A., HSBC Bank plc and SMBC Nikko Capital
Markets Limited are acting as Joint Dealer Managers for the Tender Offers and Lucid Issuer Services
Limited is acting as Tender Agent.

                                        JOINT DEALER MANAGERS

       Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.                            Banco Santander, S.A.
           44th Floor, One Canada Square                        Ciudad Grupo Santander Edificio Encinar
                  London E14 5AA                           Avenida de Cantabaria, s/n 28660 Boadilla del Monte
                  United Kingdom                                                 Madrid
                                                                                  Spain

                Tel: +44 20 7648 7516                                    Tel: +44 20 7756 6909/
                                                                            +44 20 7756 6646
          Attention: Liability Management                            Attention: Liability Management
        Email: liabilitymanagement@bbva.com                  Email: tommaso.grospietro@santandergcb.com/
                                                                    King.Cheung@santandergcb.com

                  HSBC Bank plc                                 SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited
                  8 Canada Square                                       One New Change
                  London E14 5HQ                                       London EC4M 9AF
                  United Kingdom                                        United Kingdom

                Tel: +44 20 7992 6237                                     Tel: +44 20 3527 7545
        Attention: Liability Management Group                       Attention: Liability Management
            Email: LM_EMEA@hsbc.com                               Email: chatterjee@smbcnikko-cm.com


                                          THE TENDER AGENT

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

                                           Tel: +44 20 7704 0880
                               Attention: David Shilson / Alexander Yangaev
                                    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.


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




                                                     

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