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Société Générale Capital/Financing Update 2021

Feb 24, 2021

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Capital/Financing Update

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PRIIPS/IMPORTANT - PROHIBITION OF SALES TO EEA RETAIL INVESTORS – The Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the European Economic Area (EEA). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of the following: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, MiFID II); (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive 2016/97/EU (as amended, the Insurance Distribution Directive) where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the Prospectus Regulation). Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended, the PRIIPs Regulation) for offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPS Regulation.

PROHIBITION OF SALES TO UK RETAIL INVESTORS – The Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the United Kingdom ("UK"). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (EUWA); (ii) a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the FSMA and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement Directive (EU) 2016/97, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA; or (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in Article 2 of the Prospectus Regulation as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA. Consequently no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (the UK PRIIPs Regulation) for offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the UK has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the UK may be unlawful under the UK PRIIPs Regulation.

MIFID II product governance / Professional investors and ECPs only target market – Solely for the purposes of each manufacturer's product approval process, the target market assessment in respect of the Notes taking into account the five categories referred to in item 18 of the Guidelines published by ESMA on 5 February 2018 has led to the conclusion that: (i) the target market for the Notes is eligible counterparties and professional clients only, each as defined in MiFID II; and (ii) all channels for distribution of the Notes to eligible counterparties and professional clients are appropriate. Any person subsequently offering, selling or recommending the Notes (a distributor) should take into consideration the manufacturers' target market assessment; however, a distributor subject to MiFID II is responsible for undertaking its own target market assessment in respect of the Notes (by either adopting or refining the manufacturers' target market assessment) and determining appropriate distribution channels.

UK MIFIR product governance / Professional investors and ECPs only target market – Solely for the purposes of each manufacturer's product approval process, the target market assessment in respect of the Notes taking into account the five categories referred to in item 18 of the Guidelines published by ESMA on 5 February 2018 has led to the conclusion that: (i) the target market for the Notes is only eligible counterparties, as defined in the FCA Handbook Conduct of Business Sourcebook (COBS), and professional clients, as defined in Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (UK MiFIR); and (ii) all channels for distribution of the Notes to eligible counterparties and professional clients are appropriate. Any person subsequently offering, selling or recommending the Notes (a distributor) should take into consideration the manufacturers' target market assessment; however, a distributor subject to the FCA Handbook Product Intervention and Product Governance Sourcebook (the "UK MiFIR Product Governance Rules") is responsible for undertaking its own target market assessment in respect of the Notes (by either adopting or refining the manufacturers' target market assessment) and determining appropriate distribution channels.

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): O2RNE8IBXP4R0TD8PU41

FINAL TERMS DATED 22 FEBRUARY 2021

Issue of JPY 41,500,000,000 0.594 per cent. Senior Non-Preferred Notes due 25 February 2026

(the Notes)

under the €50,000,000,000 Euro Medium Term Note – Paris Registered Programme

(the Programme)

Series no.: PA-121/21-02

Tranche no.: 1 Issue Price: 100.00 per cent.

Société Générale Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Limited Mizuho Securities Europe GmbH Nomura Financial Products Europe GmbH SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Europe GmbH (the Joint Bookrunners)

PART A – CONTRACTUAL TERMS

The Notes have not been, and will not be, registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), or with any securities regulatory authority of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States and may not be offered or sold within the United States or for the account or benefit of U.S. Persons (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act), except in certain transactions exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. For a description of certain restrictions on offers and sales of Notes, see section headed "Subscription and Sale" in the Base Prospectus.

Terms used herein shall be deemed to be defined as such for the purposes of the conditions (the Conditions) set forth under the heading "Terms and Conditions of the French Law Notes" in the base prospectus dated 10 December 2020 which received approval no.20-596 on 10 December 2020 from the Autorité des marchés financiers (the AMF), as supplemented by the first supplement dated 11 February 2021 which received approval no.21-029 from the AMF on 11 February 2021, which together constitute a base prospectus for the purposes of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the Prospectus Regulation).

This document constitutes the final terms of the Notes (the Final Terms) described herein for the purposes of Article 8 of the Prospectus Regulation and must be read in conjunction with the Base Prospectus in order to obtain all the relevant information. Copies of the Base Prospectus and these Final Terms are available for inspection and obtainable, upon request and free of charge, during usual business hours on any weekday from the head office of the Issuer and the specified offices of the Paying Agents. So long as Notes are outstanding, those documents will also be available on the websites of the AMF (www.amf-france.org) and of the Issuer (http://prospectus.socgen.com).

1. (i) Series Number: PA-121/21-02
(ii) Tranche Number: 1
2. Specified Currency: Japanese Yen (JPY)
3. Aggregate Nominal Amount:
(i) Series: JPY 41,500,000,000
(ii) Tranche: JPY 41,500,000,000
4. Issue Price: 100.00 per cent. of the Aggregate Nominal
Amount of the Tranche
5. Specified Denomination: JPY 100,000,000
6. Issue Date and Interest Commencement
Date:
25 February 2021
7. Maturity Date: 25 February 2026
8. Interest Basis: 0.594 per cent. Fixed Rate per annum payable
semi-annually in arrear on each Interest Payment
Date.
(further particulars specified below)
9. Redemption/Payment Basis: Subject to any purchase and cancellation or early
redemption, the Notes will be redeemed on the
Maturity Date at 100 per cent. of their nominal
amount
(further particulars specified below)
10. Change of Interest Basis: Not Applicable
11. Put/Call Options: Not Applicable
12. (i) Status: Senior Non-Preferred Notes pursuant to Article
L. 613-30-3-I-4° of the French Code monétaire
et financier
(ii) Date of corporate authorisations
for issue of the Notes
Resolution of the Board of Directors dated 9
February 2021 and decision of the Issuer dated
19 February 2021

PROVISIONS RELATING TO INTEREST (IF ANY) PAYABLE

13. Fixed Rate Note Provisions Applicable
(i) Rate of Interest: 0.594 per cent. per annum payable semi-annually
in arrear
(ii) Interest Payment Date: Applicable
25 February and 25 August in each year from and
including 25 August 2021 up to and including the
Maturity Date
(iii) Business Day Convention: Not Applicable
(iv) Additional Business Centres: Not Applicable
(v) Fixed Coupon Amount: JPY 297,000 per Note of JPY 100,000,000
Specified Denomination
(vi) Day Count Fraction: 30/360 (Unadjusted)
(vii) Broken Amount(s): Not Applicable
(viii) Resettable Notes Not Applicable
(ix) Determination Date(s): Not Applicable
14. Floating Rate Note Provisions Not Applicable
15. Zero Coupon Note Provisions Not Applicable

PROVISIONS RELATING TO REDEMPTION

16. Redemption at the Option of the
Issuer
Not Applicable
17. Make-Whole Redemption Option Not Applicable
18. Residual
Maturity
Redemption
Option
Not Applicable
19. Clean-up Redemption Option Not Applicable
20. Redemption at the Option of the
Noteholders
Not Applicable
21. Final Redemption Amount: JPY 100,000,000 per Note of JPY 100,000,000
Specified Denomination
22. Early Redemption Amount: JPY 100,000,000 per Note of JPY 100,000,000
Specified Denomination

GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO THE NOTES

23. Form of Notes: Dematerialised Notes
Bearer form (au porteur)
24. Additional Financial Centre for the
purposes of Condition 4(e) of the
French Law Conditions:
Tokyo, London, TARGET2
25. Payments on non-Payment Business
Days (Condition 4(e) of the French
Law Conditions)
As per Conditions
26. Talons for further Coupons to be
attached to Definitive Bearer Notes:
Not Applicable
27. Redenomination applicable: Not Applicable
28. Consolidation applicable: Not Applicable
29. Meeting and Voting Provisions
Condition 12 of the French Law
Conditions):
No Masse
30. Governing law: The Notes and any non-contractual obligations
arising out of or in connection with the Notes will
be governed by, and shall be construed in

accordance with, French law.

PURPOSE OF FINAL TERMS

These Final Terms comprise the final terms required for the issue of the Notes and admission to trading on Euronext Paris by Société Générale pursuant to its €50,000,000,000 Euro Medium Term Note - Paris Registered Programme for which purpose they are hereby submitted.

RESPONSIBILITY

The Issuer accepts responsibility for the information contained in these Final Terms prepared in relation to Series PA-121/21-02, Tranche 1.

Signed on behalf of the Issuer:

By: Agathe ZINZINDOHOUE Group Treasurer of the Issuer

Duly authorised

PART B – OTHER INFORMATION

1. LISTING AND ADMISSION TO TRADING

(i)
Listing:
Date
Application has been made for the Notes to be
listed on Euronext Paris with effect from the Issue
(ii) Admission to trading: from the Issue Date. Application has been made for the Notes to be
admitted to trading on Euronext Paris with effect
There can be no assurance that the listing and
trading of the Notes will be approved with effect
on the Issue Date or at all.
2. RATINGS
Ratings: The Notes to be issued are expected to be rated:
S&P Global Ratings Europe Limited:
BBB
Moody's France S.A.S.:
Baa2
Fitch Ratings Ireland Limited:
A
The Credit ratings referred to above have been
issued by S&P Global Ratings Europe Limited,
Moody's France S.A.S. and Fitch Ratings Ireland
Limited, each of which is established in the
European Union and is registered under Regulation
(EC) No. 1060/2009 of the European Parliament
and of the Council dated 16 September 2009 on
credit rating agencies, as amended (the CRA
Regulation) and, as of the date hereof, appears on
the list of credit rating agencies published on the
website of the European Securities and Markets
Authority (www.esma.europa.eu) in accordance
with the CRA Regulation.

3. INTERESTS OF NATURAL AND LEGAL PERSONS INVOLVED IN THE ISSUE

Save for any fees payable to the Managers, so far as the Issuer is aware, no person involved in the issue of the Notes has an interest material to the offer.

4. REASONS FOR THE OFFER, ESTIMATED NET PROCEEDS AND ESTIMATED TOTAL EXPENSES

(i) Reasons for the offer: See "Use of Proceeds" wording in Base Prospectus
(ii) Estimated net proceeds: JPY 41,375,500,000
(iii) Estimated total expenses: EUR 4,850

5. YIELD

Indication of yield: Applicable

0.594 per cent. per annum.

The yield is calculated at the Issue Date and is not an indication of any future yield.

6. OPERATIONAL INFORMATION

(i) ISIN: FR00140025B6
(ii) Common Code: 230660808
(iii) Any clearing system(s) other
than Euroclear Bank SA/NV,
Clearstream Banking, SA or
Euroclear France, SIX Swiss
Exchange
and
the
relevant
identification number(s):
Not Applicable
(iv) Delivery: Delivery against payment
(v) Names
and
addresses
of
Additional Paying Agent(s) (if
Not Applicable

7. DISTRIBUTION

any):

(i) Method of distribution: Syndicated
(ii) If syndicated:
(a)
Names of the Managers:
Joint Bookrunners
Société Générale
Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Limited
Mizuho Securities Europe GmbH
Nomura Financial Products Europe GmbH
SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Europe GmbH
(b)
Stabilising
Manager
(if
any):
Société Générale
(iii) If non-syndicated, name of the
relevant Dealer:
Not Applicable
(iv) U.S. selling restrictions: Regulation S compliance category 2 / TEFRA Not
Applicable
(v) Prohibition of Sales to EEA
Retail Investors:
Applicable
(vi) Prohibition of Sales to UK Applicable
Retail Investors:

(vii) Additional selling restrictions: Not Applicable