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Société Générale Capital/Financing Update 2021

Feb 19, 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 (EU) 2016/97 (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.

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): O2RNE8IBXP4R0TD8PU41

FINAL TERMS DATED 16 FEBRUARY 2021

Issue of EUR 1,000,000,000 0.125 per cent. Senior Preferred Notes due 18 February 2028

(the Notes)

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

(the Programme)

Series no.: PA-120/21-02

Tranche no.: 1

Issue Price: 99.465 per cent.

Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (the Joint Lead Manager and Bookrunner)

ABN AMRO IMI – Intesa Sanpaolo Scotiabank (together with the Joint Lead Manager and Bookrunner, the Joint Lead Managers)

La Banque Postale (the Senior Co-Manager)

Bankinter S.A. Bank of Ireland DZ BANK AG

(the Co-Managers and, together with the Joint Lead Managers and the Senior Co-Manager, the Managers)

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 supplement dated 11 February 2021 which received approval no.21-029 on 11 February 2021 from the AMF, which together constitute a base prospectus (the 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-120/21-02
(ii) Tranche Number: 1
2. Specified Currency: Euro (EUR)
3. Aggregate Nominal Amount:
(i) Series: EUR 1,000,000,000
(ii) Tranche: EUR 1,000,000,000
4. Issue Price: 99.465
per cent. of the Aggregate Nominal
Amount of the Tranche
5. Specified Denomination: EUR
100,000
6. Issue Date and Interest Commencement
Date:
18 February 2021
7. Maturity Date: 18 February
2028
8. Interest Basis: 0.125
per cent. Fixed Rate
(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 Preferred Notes pursuant to
Article
L.
613-30-3-I-3° 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
15
February
2021

PROVISIONS RELATING TO INTEREST (IF ANY) PAYABLE

Issuer

13. Fixed Rate Note Provisions Applicable
(i) Rate of Interest: 0.125
per cent. per annum
payable annually
in
arrear
(ii) Interest Payment Date: Applicable
18 February
in each year from and including 18
February 2022
up to and including the Maturity
Date
(iii) Business Day Convention: Not Applicable
(iv) Additional Business Centres: Not Applicable
(v) Fixed Coupon Amount: EUR 125.00
per Note of EUR 100,000
Specified
Denomination
(vi) Day Count Fraction: Actual/Actual (ICMA)
(vii) Broken Amount: Not Applicable
(viii) Resettable Notes Not Applicable
(ix) Determination Date(s): 18 February
in each year
14. Floating Rate Note Provisions Not Applicable
15. Zero Coupon Note Provisions Not Applicable
REDEMPTION PROVISIONS RELATING TO
16. Redemption at the Option of the 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: EUR 100,000 per Note of EUR 100,000
Specified
Denomination
22. Early Redemption Amount: EUR 100,000 per Note of EUR 100,000
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:
TARGET 2
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-120/21-02, 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: Application has been made for the Notes to be
listed on Euronext Paris with effect from the Issue
Date
(ii) Admission to trading: Application has been made for the Notes to be
admitted to trading on Euronext Paris with effect
from the Issue Date.
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:
Moody's France S.A.S.:
Fitch Ratings
Ireland Limited:
The Credit ratings referred to above have been
issued by S&P Global Ratings
Moody's France S.A.S. and Fitch Ratings
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.
A
A1
A
Europe Limited,
Ireland

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: EUR
991,650,000
(iii) Estimated total expenses: EUR
6,400

5. YIELD

Indication of yield: Applicable

0.202 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: FR00140022B3
  • (ii) Common Code: 230490716
  • (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 any): Not Applicable

7. DISTRIBUTION

  • (i) Method of distribution: Syndicated
  • (ii) If syndicated:
  • (a) Names of the Managers: Joint Lead Manager and Bookrunner

Société Générale

Joint Lead Managers

ABN AMRO Bank N.V Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. Scotiabank Europe plc

Senior Co-Manager

La Banque Postale

Co-Managers

Bankinter S.A. The Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt am Main

(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
Retail Investors:
Applicable
(vii) Additional selling restrictions: Not Applicable