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Thales Capital/Financing Update 2019

May 21, 2019

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Capital/Financing Update

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Thales: issuance of a €500m bond

Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) has issued today a €500m, 0% fixed-rate bond maturing in May 2022.

This issue, whose effective yield is negative, allows Thales to strengthen its financial flexibility and forms part of its active management of its liquidity.

The success of this issue with investors confirms the confidence of the market in the creditworthiness of the Group, which is rated A2 (outlook: stable) by Moody's and A- (outlook: negative) by S&P Global Ratings.

The issue was lead managed by Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, CIC, SMBC Nikko, Société Générale and UniCredit.

About Thales

The people who make the world go round – they rely on Thales. Our customers come to us with big ambitions: to make life better, to keep us safer.

Combining a unique diversity of expertise, talents and cultures, our architects design and deliver extraordinary high technology solutions. Solutions that make tomorrow possible, today. From the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace, we help our customers think smarter and act faster, mastering ever greater complexity at every decisive moment along the way.

With 80,000 employees in 68 countries, Thales reported sales of €19 billion in 2018.

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Thales, Media Relations Cédric Leurquin +33 (0)1 57 77 90 93 [email protected]

Thales, Analysts / investors Bertrand Delcaire +33 (0)1 57 77 89 02 [email protected]

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