Convertible Bond Issue
€390,000,000 1.75 per cent. Convertible Bonds due 2018 (the "Bonds")
International Airlines Group (IAG) hereby announces that the public deed of issue of the Bonds has been registered in the Mercantile Registry of Madrid on 17 May 2013 and that today, being the closing date of the issue, the Bonds have been issued for an aggregate nominal amount of €390,000,000.
The Bonds will be admitted to the Official List maintained by the UKLA and admitted to trading on the Professional Securities Market of the London Stock Exchange as of start of trading on 3 June 2013.
DISCLAIMER - INTENDED ADDRESSEES
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN DOES NOT COMPRISE A PROSPECTUS FOR THE PURPOSES OF EU DIRECTIVE 2003/71/EC AND/OR CHAPTER I OF TITLE III OF THE SPANISH SECURITIES MARKET LAW (LAW 24/1988, OF JULY 28) OR OTHERWISE. THE DEFINITIVE TERMS OF THE TRANSACTION DESCRIBED HEREIN ARE INCLUDED IN THE FINAL OFFERING CIRCULAR TO BE PRODUCED IN RESPECT OF THE BONDS.
NOTHING IN THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD BE CONSTRUED OR INTERPRETED AS A REPRESENTATION FROM ANY OF THE JOINT LEAD MANAGERS OR AN OBLIGATION OR UNDERTAKING FROM THE JOINT LEAD MANAGERS TO UPDATE, REVIEW OR REVISE ANY STATEMENT CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT.
THE BONDS ARE ONLY DIRECTED AT PERSONS WHO ARE "QUALIFIED INVESTORS" WITHIN THE MEANING OF ARTICLE 39 OF THE SPANISH ROYAL DECREE 1310/2005 OF NOVEMBER 4, 2005 OR THE LEGISLATION ENACTED BY OTHER EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES IN COMPLIANCE WITH ARTICLE 2(1)(E) OF THE EUROPEAN UNION PROSPECTUS DIRECTIVE (DIRECTIVE 2003/71/EC) ("QUALIFIED INVESTORS"). EACH PERSON WHO INITIALLY ACQUIRES ANY BONDS WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED, ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED THAT IT IS A "QUALIFIED INVESTOR" WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE MENTIONED LEGISLATION.
THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED ("U.S. SECURITIES ACT")). THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT AN OFFER TO SELL SECURITIES OR THE SOLICITATION OF ANY OFFER TO BUY SECURITIES, NOR SHALL THERE BE ANY OFFER OF SECURITIES IN ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH OFFER OR SALE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. THE BONDS HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ABSENT REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT. THERE WILL BE NO PUBLIC OFFER OF THE BONDS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.
