OREANDA-NEWS. December 08, 2009. Sistema (the “Group”) (LSE: SSA), the largest diversified public financial corporation in Russia and the CIS, which invests in and is a major shareholder of companies operating in different industries, announced that it has placed RUB 19 billion unconvertible third series seven-year bond with a put option exercisable in three years following the sixth coupon payment, reported the press-centre of Sistema.

The annual coupon rate was set at 12.5% for the first six semi-annual coupon payments. The issue was oversubscribed by 1.7 times with the demand totalling RUB 32.1 billion from over 70 international investors.

The Prospectus for RUB 19 billion bond issue was registered with the Russian Federal Financial Markets Service (“FFMS”) on October 27, 2009.
 
VTB Capital acted as Organiser of the issue. Sberbank acted as Co-Lead Manager and GLOBEX Bank, Sviaz Bank and CentroCredit Bank were Co-Managers of the issue. BFA, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, LOCKO-Bank, NOMOS-Bank, Raiffeisen Bank, “RON Invest” and Sovkombank acted as Underwriters and Promsvyazbank, Renaissance Capital, Stroycredit Bank, Uglemetbank and URALSIB Bank were Co-Underwriters of this issue. The bonds were placed on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX).