To view the PDF file, sign up for a MySharenet subscription.

AGRARIUS SUSTAINABILITY ENGINEERED (RF) LIMITED - Approval of APS Relating to Listing, Issue of Senior Secured Floating Rate Sustainability-Linked Sukuk Notes

Release Date: 27/10/2022 11:48
Code(s): AGRIA1     PDF:  
Wrap Text
Approval of APS Relating to Listing, Issue of Senior Secured Floating Rate Sustainability-Linked Sukuk Notes

AGRARIUS SUSTAINABILITY ENGINEERED (RF) LIMITED
Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa with limited liability
(Registration Number: 2022/521382/06)
Alpha Code: “AGRI”

(“Agrarius” or “the Company”)


APPROVAL OF THE APPLICABLE PRICING SUPPLEMENT RELATING TO THE LISTING AND ISSUE OF THE
AGRARIUS SENIOR SECURED, FLOATING RATE SUSTAINABILITY-LINKED ASSET-BACKED SUKUK NOTES

NOT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO ANY
JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE RELEVANT LAWS OF SUCH
JURISDICTION

Further to the announcement published by the Company on SENS on Friday, 21 October 2022, regarding the
successful completion by the Company of its bookbuild for senior secured, floating rate sustainability-linked asset-
backed Sukuk notes (“Agrarius Sukuk”), the Company hereby advises that the applicable pricing supplement
(“APS”) relating to the issuance of the Agrarius Sukuk has been approved by the JSE.

Save to the extent specifically stated otherwise, capitalised terms in this announcement shall bear the meanings
assigned to them in terms of the APS and Programme Documentation.

Copies of the APS, including the Agrarius’ Sustainability-linked Sukuk Framework and the Independent
Sustainability Advisor’s signed opinion can be downloaded from the Company’s website by accessing the following
link: https://www.27four.com/agrarius/investorcentre.

The listing and trading of the Agrarius Sukuk will commence at 09h00 on Friday, 28 October 2022.

The terms of the Agrarius Sukuk are as follows:

 Aggregate principle amount of this                                                                ZAR500,000,000
 Tranche:

 SPV Guarantor:                                                                      AVC Security SPV (RF) Pty) Ltd

 Nature of Security:                                 Limited recourse SPV Guarantee issued by the SPV Guarantor

 Nominal Amount per Note:                                                                               ZAR10,000

 Debt security code:                                                                                        AGRIA1

 ISIN:                                                                                              ZAG000191214

 Status of the Notes:                                                                               Senior Secured
 Type of Notes:                            Floating Rate, Sustainability-linked Asset-Backed Notes, self-labelled as
                                             Sukuk Notes by the Company and certified Shari’ah compliant by the
                                                27four Investment Managers Shari’ah Advisory Committee (“SAC”)

 Use of Proceeds:                                          The proceeds from this Tranche of Notes will be used to
                                                          undertake Investments in terms of the Master Investment
                                                    Agreement, within 5 Business Days of receipt by the Company
                                                       of proceeds for the relevant Tranche of Notes by paying the
                                                      amount of the Investment into a South African bank account
                                                     nominated by Agrarius OpCo for purposes of concluding the
                                                                                          Underlying Transactions.
                                             The proceeds raised from the issue of the Sukuk Notes will be further
                                            applied in accordance with the Sustainability-linked Sukuk Framework
                                                          1, as signed off by the Independent Sustainability Advisor

 Issue Date:                                                                                      28 October 2022

 Issue Price:                                                         100% of the Nominal Amount per Sukuk Note
 Term of the Notes:                                                                  36 months from Issue Date

 Applicable Business Day Convention:                                        Following Business Day Convention

 Maturity Date:                           28 October 2025, unless redeemed on any Optional Dissolution Date
                                           and/or Early Dissolution Date. If any such date is not a Business Day,
                                                   the date determined in terms of the Following Business Day
                                                                                                      Convention
 Last day to register:                   By 17h00 on 25 March and 24 September each year until the maturity
                                                date or, if any day is not a Business Day, the last Business Day
                                              immediately preceding the commencement of the Books Closed
                                                                                                        Period(s)

 Books Closed Period:                     The Register will be closed from 26 March to 30 March and from 25
                                         September to 29 September (all dates inclusive) in each year until the
                                                                                                Maturity Date

 Periodic Distribution                                                                       01 November 2022
 Commencement Date:
 First Periodic Distribution Date:       30 September 2023 or, if any such date is not a Business Day, the date
                                               determined in terms of the Following Business Day Convention

 Periodic Distribution Dates:                  31 March and 30 September of each year until the Maturity Date

 Reference Rate:                                3 month ZAR- JIBAR, determined on the last Calendar Day of a
                                              Calendar Month for the reference rate applicable to the following
                                               Calendar Month as benchmark using a simple rate of return (not
                                                                                                compounding)

 Margin:                                                                              4.75% percent per annum

 Other:                                   An additional margin of 25 basis points (calculated in arrears) will be
                                         added to the Margin, in the event of the Company failing to meet any
                                             of the sustainability performance targets detailed in terms of the
                                               Sustainability-linked Sukuk Framework 1, which will accrue and
                                                     become payable upon the dissolution of the Sukuk Notes

 Final Dissolution Amount:                                       100% of the Nominal Amount per Sukuk Note

 Aggregate Outstanding Principal         The Company confirms that the issue of this Tranche of Sukuk Notes is
 Amount of all of the Notes (including           the first issuance under the Programme and accordingly, the
 existing Notes) in issue under the       Aggregate Outstanding Principal Amount immediately preceding the
 Programme as at the Issue Date                                         issue and listing of this Tranche is zero

 Additional terms and conditions:                 Additional terms and conditions applicable to the Underlying
                                                                          Transactions are included in the APS

 Documentation:                                    Copies of the Programme Documentation, Applicable Pricing
                                               Supplement, the Sustainability-linked Sukuk Framework and SAC
                                         certificates can be accessed on the Company’ website at the following
                                                                                                          link:

                                                               https://www.27four.com/agrarius/investorcentre


27 October 2022
Rosebank

JSE Debt Sponsor – Questco Corporate Advisory Proprietary Limited
JSE Debt Officer – Johan Fourie, 27four Investment Managers
                                                           Administrator
                JSE Debt Sponsor                    27four Investment Managers
Questco Corporate Advisory Proprietary Limited




               Company Secretary                            Lead Dealer
Fusion Corporate Secretarial Services Proprietary    Moore Debt Advisory JHB
                    Limited

Date: 27-10-2022 11:48:00
Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). 
The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of
 the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, 
indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on,
 information disseminated through SENS.

Share This Story