Smurfit Kappa Group: Pricing of new senior secured floating rate notes offering

Sep 19, 2012. /Lesprom Network/. Smurfit Kappa Group plc (the "Group") one of the world’s largest integrated manufacturers of paper-based packaging products, with operations in Europe and Latin America, announced that it had successfully completed the pricing of an offering of €250 million of senior secured floating rate notes due 2020 to be issued by its wholly owned subsidiary Smurfit Kappa Acquisitions, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network. The net proceeds of the offering will be used to prepay a portion of the Group’s outstanding term loans under its senior credit facility and to pay certain fees and expenses related to the offering. The notes are being offered in a private placement and there will be no public offering of the notes.The notes priced at an issue price of 100 percent and at an interest rate of three-month EURIBOR, reset quarterly, plus 350 basis points. The closing of the sale of the notes is scheduled to be completed on 21 September 2012, and is subject to customary conditions.