Capital/Financing Update • May 10, 2020
Capital/Financing Update
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08 August 2007
Terms used herein shall be deemed to be defined as such for the purposes of the Terms and Conditions set forth in the Prospectus dated 03 August 2007 which constitutes a base prospectus for the purposes of the Prospectus Directive (Directive 2003/71/EC) (the Prospectus Directive). This document constitutes the Final Terms of the Notes described herein for the purposes of Article 5.4 of the Prospectus Directive and must be read in conjunction with the Prospectus. Full information on the Issuer and the offer of the Notes is only available on the basis of the combination of these Final Terms and the Prospectus is available for viewing at http://www.rnspdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/3261h_-2006-8-7.pdf and copies may be obtained from the registered office of the Issuer at 2297 Coventry Road, Birmingham B26 3PU, United Kingdom.
| 1. | (i) Issuer: |
Severn Trent Utilities Finance Plc |
|---|---|---|
| (ii) Guarantor: |
Severn Trent Water Limited | |
| 2. | (i) Series Number: |
92 |
| (ii) Tranche Number: |
1 | |
| 3. | Specified Currency or Currencies: | Pounds sterling (GBP) / |
| 4. | Aggregate Nominal Amount: | |
| (i) Series: |
GBP 50,000,000 | |
| (ii) Tranche: |
GBP 50,000,000 | |
| 5. | Issue Price: | 100.00 per cent. of the Aggregate Nominal Amount of the Tranche |
| 6. | Specified Denominations: | GBP 50,000 |
| 7. | Issue Date and Interest Commencement Date: |
10 August 2007 |
| 8. | Maturity Date: | 01 August 2058 |
| 9. | Interest Basis: | Index Linked Interest (further particulars specified below) |
| 10. | Redemption/Payment Basis: | Index Linked Redemption |
| (see Appendix) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 11. | Change of Interest Basis or Redemption/Payment Basis: |
Not Applicable |
| 12. | Put/Call Options: | Not Applicable |
| 13. | (i) Status of the Notes: |
Senior |
| Status of the Guarantee: (II) |
Senior | |
| 14. | Method of distribution: | Non-syndicated |
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| 15. | Fixed Rate Note Provisions | Not Applicable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16. | Floating Rate Note Provisions | Not Applicable | ||
| 17. | Zero Coupon Note Provisions | Not Applicable | ||
| 18. | Index Linked Interest Note Provisions |
Applicable | ||
| (i) | Index/Formula: | See Appendix | ||
| (ii) | Calculation Agent responsible for calculating the interest due: |
HSBC Bank plc | ||
| (iii) | Provisions for determining Coupon where calculation by reference to Index and/or Formula is impossible or impracticable: |
See Appendix | ||
| (iv) | Specified Period(s)/Specified Interest Payment Dates: |
there will be a short first Interest Period. | Semi-annually in arrear on 01 February and 01 August in each year, commencing on 01 February 2008 up to and including the Maturity Date. For the avoidance of doubt |
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| (v) | Business Day Convention: | Following Business Day Convention | ||
| (vi) | Additional Business Centre(s): |
Not Applicable | ||
| (vii) | Minimum Rate of Interest: | Not Applicable | ||
| (viii) | Maximum Rate of Interest: | Not Applicable | ||
| (ix) | Day Count Fraction: | See Appendix | ||
| 19. | Provisions | Dual Currency Interest Note | Not Applicable |
| 20. | Issuer Call: | Not Applicable |
|---|---|---|
| 21. | Investor Put: | Not Applicable |
| 22. | Final Redemption Amount | Nominal Amount, subject in the case of Condition 6(a) to indexation as provided in Condition 4(f)(i) - see Appendix |
| 23. | Early Redemption Amount payable on redemption for taxation reasons or on event of default and/ or the method of calculating the same (if Appendix. required or if different from that set out in Condition 6(f)): |
Nominal Amount, subject in the case of Condition 6(b) and Condition 9 to indexation as provided in Condition 4(f)(i) - see |
| 24. | Put Event: | Applicable. For the purposes of Condition 6(e), the Event Put Amount shall be the Nominal Amount subject to indexation as provided in Condition 4(f)(i) - see Appendix |
| 25. | (a) | Form of Notes: | Temporary Global Note exchangeable for a Global Permanent Note which IS exchangeable for Definitive Notes only upon an Exchange Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| (b) | New Global Note: | No | |
| 26. | Dates: | Additional Financial Centre(s) or other Not Applicable special provisions relating to Payment |
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| 27. | to be attached to Definitive Notes (and dates on which such Talons mature): |
Talons for future Coupons or Receipts Yes. Each Talon shall be deemed to mature on the Interest Payment Date on which the final Coupon comprised in the relevant Coupon sheet matures |
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| 28. | Details relating to Partly Paid Notes: amount of each payment comprising the Issue Price and date on which each payment is to be made and consequences of failure to pay, including any right of the Issuer to forfeit the Notes and interest due on late payment: |
Not Applicable | |
| Details relating to Instalment Notes: | Not Applicable |
| (i) | Instalment Amount(s): | Not Applicable | |
|---|---|---|---|
| (ii) | Instalment Date(s): | Not Applicable | |
| 30. | Redenomination applicable: | Redenomination not applicable | |
| 31. | Other terms or special conditions: | See Appendix below | |
| DISTRIBUTION | |||
| 32. | (i) | If syndicated, names of Managers: |
Not Applicable |
| (ii) | Stabilising Manager (if any): | Not Applicable | |
| 33. | If non-syndicated, name of relevant Dealer: |
Dresdner Bank AG London Branch | |
| 34. | Whether TEFRA D or TEFRA C rules applicable or TEFRA rules not applicable: |
TEFRA D rules apply | |
| 35. | Additional selling restrictions: | Not Applicable |
These Final Terms comprise the final terms required to list and have admitted to trading the issue of Notes described herein pursuant to the €3,500,000,000 Euro Medium Term Note Programme of Severn Trent Plc and Severn Trent Water Utilities Finance Plc.
The Issuer and the Guarantor accept responsibility for the information contained in these Final Terms.
Signed on behalf of the Issuer:
Signed on behalf of the Guarantor:
By: .......................................................................................................................................................................... Duly authorised
By: ........... Duly authorised
(i) Listing: London (ii) Admission to trading: Application has been made for the Notes to be admitted to trading on the Gilt-Edged and Fixed Interest Market of the London Stock Exchange with effect from 10 August 2007. (iii) Estimate of total expenses GBP 1,918.50 (GBP 1,532.50 for admission of related to admission to trading: Notes to trading on the London Stock Exchange plc, GBP 100 listing fee payable to United Kingdom Listing Authority and GBP 286 of VAT). RATINGS Ratings: The Notes to be issued have been rated:
2.
Not Applicable
Save as described in "Subscription and Sale" and for any fees payable to the Dealer, so far as the Issuer and the Guarantor is aware, no person involved in the issue of the Notes has an interest material to the offer.
| (i) | Reasons for the offer | See "Use of Proceeds" wording in Prospectus |
|---|---|---|
| (ii) | Estimated net proceeds: | GBP 50,000,000 |
| (iii) | Estimated total expenses: | Not Applicable |
Indication of yield:
Not Applicable
Information on the UK Retail Price Index can be found on Bloomberg Page UKRPI.
Not Applicable
Delivery against payment
Not Applicable
(This Appendix shall form part of the Final Terms to which it is attached)
The Calculation Agent will, at or as soon as practicable after each time at which the Rate of Interest is capable of being determined, determine the applicable Rate of Interest and notify the Agent of the Rate of Interest as soon as practicable after calculating the same.
The amount of interest payable on each Note for any Interest Period (the Interest Amount) will be calculated by the Calculation Agent by (A) applying the Rate of Interest (as notified to the Agent by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the preceding paragraph) to the Specified Denomination of such Note, (B) multiplying the resulting amount by the Day Count Fraction and (C) rounding the resulting figure to the nearest one penny (half a penny being rounded upwards).
The Day Count Fraction is a fraction (a) the numerator of which is the number of days from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date (or Issue Date if such period is before the first scheduled Interest Payment Date) to but excluding the next Interest Payment Date or, if earlier the date of payment; and (b) the denominator of which is two times the number of days (including the first and excluding the last) in the Interest Period."
If for any reason the Calculation Agent at any time after the Issue Date defaults in its obligation to determine or calculate:
the Trustee shall determine or calculate the same, in its absolute discretion (having such regard as it shall think fit to the foregoing provisions of this Condition 4 and Conditions 6 and 9), and in such manner as it shall deem fair and reasonable in all the circumstances and each such determination or calculation shall be deemed to
have been made by the Calculation Agent (and, where practicable, in accordance with this Condition 4)."
The Final Redemption Amount payable pursuant to Condition 6(a), the Early Redemption Amount payable pursuant to Conditions 6(b) or 9 and the Event Put Amount payable pursuant to Condition 6(e) shall be the nominal amount of the Notes multiplied by the Index Ratio applicable to the date on which the Final Redemption Amount or the Early Redemption Amount or the Event Put Amount (as the case may be) becomes payable.
The Calculation Agent will calculate such Final Redemption Amount or Early Redemption Amount or Event Put Amount (as the case may be) as soon as practicable after each time such amount is capable of being determined and will notify the Agent thereof as soon as practicable after calculating the same. The Agent will as soon as practicable thereafter notify the Issuer and any stock exchange on which the Notes are for the time being listed thereof and cause notice thereof to be published in accordance with Condition 13.
Definitions (ii)
For the purposes of these Conditions:
Base Index Figure means 206.51935, being the Index Figure applicable to 10 August 2007;
Calculation Date means any date when an Interest Amount falls due;
Expert means an independent investment bank or other expert in London appointed by the Issuer and approved by the Trustee acting reasonably or (failing such appointment within 10 days after the Trustee shall have requested such appointment (provided such request is reasonable)) appointed by the Trustee;
Index means, in relation to any Calculation Date, subject as provided in Conditions 4(g) and 6(l) below, the United Kingdom General Index of Retail Prices (for all items) as published by the Office for National Statistics (January 1987=100) as published by HM Government (currently contained in the Monthly Digest of Statistics) and applicable to that Calculation Date or, if that index is not published for any Calculation Date, any substituted index or index figures published by the Office for National Statistics or the comparable index which replaces the United Kingdom General Index of Retail Prices (for all items) for the purpose of calculating the amount payable on repayment of the Reference Gilt;
Any reference to the Index Figure applicable to a particular Calculation Date shall, subject as provided in Condition 4(g) below, be calculated in accordance with the following formula:
RPI m3 + (Day of Calculation Date - 1)_ x (RPI m-2 - RPI m-2 - RPI m-3) (Days in month of Calculation Date)
and rounded to five decimal places (0.000005 being rounded upwards) and where:
Index Ratio applicable to any Calculation Date means the Index Figure applicable to such date divided by the Base Index Figure and rounded to five decimal places (0.000005 being rounded upwards);
the Rate of Interest applicable to any amount payable in respect of interest shall be 1.5225 per cent. per annum multiplied by the Index Ratio applicable to the date on which such amount falls due and rounded to six decimal places (0.0000005 being rounded upwards); and
Reference Gilt means the 1.25 per cent. Index-Linked Treasury Stock due November 2055 (or, if such stock is not in existence, such other index-linked stock issued by or on behalf of HM Government as the Issuer, on the advice of three brokers and/or gilt edged market makers (or such other three persons operating in the gilt edged market as the Issuer, after consultation with the Trustee, may select), may consider to be the most appropriate reference government stock for the Notes)."
If at any time the Index is changed by the substitution of a new base for it, then with effect from (and including) the date from and including that on which such substitution takes effect:
calculation month shall be the substitute index figure (if any) as is published by the Bank of England or the United Kingdom Debt Management Office (or such other United Kingdom authority as may be appropriate) for the purposes of indexation of payments on the Reference Gilt or, failing such publication, on any one or more of HM Government's index-linked stocks, as determined by the Expert; or
(B) if no such determination is made by the Expert within seven days, the Index Figure last published before the date for payment.
Where the provisions of this Condition 4(g)(ii) apply, the certificate of the Issuer, acting on the advice of an Expert, as to the Index Figure applicable to the date for payment falls shall be conclusive and binding upon the Issuer, the Trustee and the Noteholders. If a substitute index is published as specified in (A) above, a determination made based on that index shall be final and no further payment by way of adjustment shall be made, notwithstanding that the Index Figure applicable to the date for payment may subsequently be published. If no substitute index is so published and the Index relating to the date for payment is subsequently published then:
If the Index ceases to be published or any changes are made to it which, in the opinion of an Expert, constitute a fundamental change in the rules governing the Index and the change would, in the opinion of the Expert, be detrimental to the interests of the Issuer or the Noteholders and if, within 30 days after its appointment (or such longer period as the Trustee may consider reasonable), the Expert recommends for the purposes of the Notes one or more adjustments to the Index or a substitute index (with or without adjustments), then provided that such adjustments or substitute index (as the case may be) are not materially detrimental (in the opinion of the Expert) either to the interests of the Issuer or the interests of the Noteholders, as compared to the interests of the Issuer and the Noteholders (as the case may be) as they would have been had the Index continued to be published or such fundamental change in the rules governing the Index not been made, the Index shall be adjusted as so recommended or (as the case may be) shall be replaced by the substitute index so recommended (as so adjusted, if so recommended) and references in these Conditions to the Index shall be construed accordingly and the Issuer shall notify the Noteholders of the adjustments to the Introduction of the substitute index (with or without adjustments) in accordance with Condition 13.
If any payment in respect of the Notes is due to be made after the cessation or changes referred to in the preceding paragraph but before any such adjustment to, or replacement of, the Index takes effect, the Issuer shall (if the Index Figure applicable (or deemed applicable) to the date for payment is not available in accordance with the provisions of Condition 4(f)) make a provisional payment on the basis that the Index Figure applicable to the date for payment is the Index last published. In that event or in the event of any payment on the Notes having been made on the basis of an Index deemed applicable under Condition 4(g)(ii)(A) above (also referred to below as a provisional payment) and of the Trustee on the advice of the Expert subsequently determining that the relevant circumstances fall within this Condition 4(g)(iii), then:
The Trustee shall be entitled to assume that no cessation of or change to the Index has occurred until informed otherwise by the Issuer and will not be responsible for identifying or appointing an Expert save as provided in these Conditions."
such longer period as the Trustee considers reasonable), or states to the Issuer and the Trustee that it is unable to recommend for the purposes of the Notes any adjustments to the Index or any substitute index (with or without adjustments) as described in Condition 4(g)(ii), the Issuer may at its option, within 14 days after the expiry of such period or (as the case may be) after the date of such statement, give notice (which shall be irrevocable and shall state the date fixed for redemption which shall be not more than 15 days after the date on which the notice is given) to redeem the Notes then outstanding, at a price equal to their nominal amount multiplied by the Index Ratio applicable to the date on which the date fixed for redemption falls, together with accrued interest."
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