OREANDA-NEWS. February 19, 2014. Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) closed on the sale of three series of its capital markets notes – EUR 1,750,000,000 2.375% Notes due 2022; EUR1,250,000,000 3.25% Notes due 2026; and pound 850,000,000 4.75% Notes due 2034 – with a value totaling approximately USD5.4 billion.

This is the first Verizon Communications corporate notes offering in euro and sterling, and net proceeds will be used primarily to finance, in part, Verizon’s acquisition of Vodafone Group Plc’s 45 percent indirect ownership interest in Verizon Wireless.

Net proceeds used to finance this acquisition will reduce anticipated borrowings under a term loan agreement, dated Oct. 1, 2013, which provides Verizon with the ability to borrow up to USD 12.0 billion. To the extent that the net proceeds from this offering are not used to finance the acquisition, which is expected to close on Feb. 21, 2014, they will be used for general corporate purposes.

Verizon expects to list the notes on the New York Stock Exchange within the next 30 days. Further information is available in a prospectus posted on Feb. 6, 2014, at www.verizon.com/investor/secfiling.htm.

The underwriters, which included four minority- and women-owned firms, were:  Banco Santander, S.A.; Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited; Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch; The Royal Bank of Scotland plc; Lloyds Bank plc; Mizuho International plc; CastleOak Securities, L.P.; Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc.; The Williams Capital Group, L.P.; and Blaylock Robert Van, LLC.