Maisons & Cités Soginorpa: CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre advisor to Crédit Agricole

Maisons & Cités Soginorpa, responsible for managing all property inherited from the former collieries in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais basin, successfully completed its first transaction on the financial markets with two simultaneous bond issues taken up by institutional investors.

Each bond issue was the subject of a prospectus approved by the AMF (French Financial Markets Authority) on 12 December 2013 and listing on the regulated NYSE Euronext market in Paris.

The bond issue arranged by Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank was offered at a nominal total amount of €30,000,000 at a rate of 3.5% maturing at 12 years.

The bond issue arranged by Natixis was offered at a nominal total amount of €30,000,000 at a rate of 3.125% maturing at 10 years.

Maisons & Cités Soginorpa was advised by Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP.

The Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP team comprised Philip Boys, partner, Vincent Fidelle, counsel, and Audrey Minnie.

CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP were involved as advisors, respectively, to Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and Natixis.

The CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre team comprised Marc-Etienne Sébire, partner, and Rosetta Ferrère and Charles Tissier, advisors.

The Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP team meanwhile comprised Thierry Laloum, Vincent Brenot, partners, and Alexis Grisoni, advisor.

For more information, please contact:

• Nicolas Merigeau, NewCap
  nmerigeau@newcap.fr
  +33 1 44 71 94 98
  
• CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre
  Florence Jouffroy, Marketing and Communication Director
  Laetitia Mostowski, External Communication Manager
  florence.jouffroy@cms-bfl.com, laetitia.mostowski@cms-bfl.com
  +33 1 47 38 40 32 / 40 74