Securities offerings

Experience

The following is a selection of transactions advising:

Bank of England on its Euronote programme. This is the first time the Bank has issued securities that will be listed on a stock exchange;
Deutsche Lufthansa on its €750m convertible bond issue;
Energie Baden-Württemburg on a €3bn EMTN programme;
La Fondiaria on two exchangeable bond issues;
JP Morgan Securities on the issue of an undated €1.25bn Tier 1 exchangeable bond for Fortis;
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on a US$90m issue of enhanced equity linked securities convertible into shares of Gujurat Ambuja Cement;
The lead managers on two issues of privatisation certificates sold by the Hellenic Republic. The certificates confer preferential allocation rights in future Greek Government privatisations;
Morgan Stanley International, as lead manager and bookrunner for the offering by Iberdrola International of €740m zero coupon exchangeable bonds. The bonds are exchangeable into stares in Repsol YPF and listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange;
Kredyt Bank on its debut Eurobond issue;
mmO2 on its €5bn MTN programme;
Goldman Sachs, HSBC and Merrill Lynch, the joint global coordinators, on a $600m SEC registered bond offering by MRT Corporation;
Porsche on a €300m Eurobond issue;
Rémy Cointreau on convertible bonds (exchangeable into shares);
Repsol on its MTN programme;
Royal Bank of Scotland on a number of capital raising issues;
The Lebanese Republic on a number of Eurobond issues and its MTN Programme; and
Toys'R'Us on its debut Eurobond issue.

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