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Lloyds Banking Group PLC
17 April 2014
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ISLAND AND THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS), ANY STATE OF THE UNITED
STATES OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OR TO ANY PERSON LOCATED OR
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UNLAWFUL TO DISTRIBUTE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT (SEE "OFFER RESTRICTIONS"
BELOW)
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17 April 2014
LBG CAPITAL NO.1 PLC AND LBG CAPITAL NO.2 PLC ANNOUNCE RESULTS
OF THEIR TENDER OFFERS TO ELIGIBLE RETAIL INVESTORS FOR CERTAIN
OUTSTANDING STERLING DENOMINATED ENHANCED CAPITAL NOTES
LBG Capital No. 1 plc ("LBG 1") and LBG Capital No. 2 plc ("LBG
2", together with LBG 1, the "Offerors" and each an "Offeror")
announced on 6 March 2014 invitations to the holders of certain of
their outstanding Enhanced Capital Notes (the "Securities") to
tender such Securities for purchase by the relevant Offeror for
cash (each such invitation an "Offer", and together the
"Offers").
The Offerors further announced on 20 March 2014 (the "Eligible
Securities Announcement") (i) which of the Series of Securities
were eligible for tender pursuant to the Offers (the "Eligible
Securities"), (ii) the Acceptance Priority Levels, (iii) the
results of the Exchange Offers and (iv) that the period within
which Holders could tender their Eligible Securities for purchase
(the "Submission Period") had commenced with the publication of the
Eligible Securities Announcement.
The Offerors hereby announce the results of the Offers. The
Offers were made on the terms and subject to the conditions
contained in the tender offer memorandum dated 6 March 2014 (the
"Tender Offer Memorandum") prepared by the Offerors for the Offers
and the Eligible Securities Announcement.
ELIGIBLE SECURITIES
The Offerors have accepted all validly tendered Eligible
Securities for purchase pursuant to the Offers without pro-ration.
The Final Acceptance Amount is GBP58,492,336.
The below table sets out the results of the Offers.
ISIN Issuer Current Aggregate Amount Maturity Purchase Aggregate Scaling Acceptance
/ Coupon Principal Outstanding Date Price Accrued Factor Priority
Guarantor(s) Amount Following Interest Level
of Securities Settlement
Accepted of the
Offers
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LBG Capital
No. 1 plc
/ Lloyds
Banking 19 March
XS0459088877 Group plc 11.040% GBP7,297,000 GBP58,246,000 2020 111.75% GBP78,807.60 1 1
LBG Capital
No. 1 plc
/ Lloyds
Banking 12 May
XS0459086582 Group plc 7.5884% GBP18,655,000 GBP60,511,000 2020 106.25% GBP637,418.62 1 2
LBG Capital
No.1 plc
/ Lloyds 15
Banking September
XS0459086822 Group plc 7.975% GBP5,205,336 GBP27,326,834 2024 105.00% GBP45,122.37 1 3
LBG Capital
No. 1 plc
/ Lloyds 17
Banking December
XS0459086749 Group plc 7.8673% GBP4,366,000 GBP17,167,000 2019 106.50% GBP292,669.25 1 4
LBG Capital
No. 1 plc
/ Lloyds
Banking 25 August
XS0459093364 Group plc 7.869% GBP1,433,000 GBP26,032,000 2020 106.50% GBP18,066.97 1 5
LBG Capital
No.2 plc 14
/ Lloyds September
XS0459092390 Bank plc 11.250% GBP3,200,000 GBP18,750,000 2023 111.75% GBP52,826.15 1 6
LBG Capital
No. 2 plc 7
/ Lloyds February
XS0459088109 Bank plc 9.334% GBP3,316,000 GBP20,563,000 2020 108.00% GBP66,201.87 1 7
LBG Capital
No. 2 plc
/ Lloyds 15 July
XS0459090188 Bank plc 9.125% GBP1,274,000 GBP46,363,000 2020 107.50% GBP90,095.74 1 8
LBG Capital
No.2 plc 30
/ Lloyds January
XS0459091822 Bank plc 14.500% GBP2,850,000 GBP15,000,000 2022 120.75% GBP60,640.02 1 9
LBG Capital
No. 2 plc 9
/ Lloyds December
XS0459091582 Bank plc 7.625% GBP1,151,000 GBP39,946,000 2019 105.50% GBP32,701.03 1 10
LBG Capital
No. 2 plc
/ Lloyds 10 August
XS0459091079 Bank plc 12.750% GBP420,000 GBP13,160,000 2020 114.00% GBP37,782.48 1 11
LBG Capital
No.2 plc 29
/ Lloyds September
XS0459092473 Bank plc 10.500% GBP500,000 GBP8,682,000 2023 109.50% GBP29,895.84 1 12
LBG Capital
No. 2 plc 15
/ Lloyds December
XS0459091665 Bank plc 9.000% GBP547,000 GBP15,062,000 2019 107.00% GBP38,153.25 1 13
LBG Capital
No. 2 plc 4
/ Lloyds November
XS0459090691 Bank plc 11.125% GBP816,000 GBP4,073,000 2020 110.50% GBP42,868.32 1 14
LBG Capital
No.2 plc 10
/ Lloyds December
XS0459093281 Bank plc 16.125% GBP1,000,000 GBP14,300,000 2024 128.50% GBP59,804.25 1 15
LBG Capital
No. 1 plc
/ Lloyds 15
Banking December
XS0459091749 Group plc 8.125% GBP106,000 GBP3,674,000 2019 104.00% GBP3,775.35 1 16
LBG Capital
No.2 plc 10
/ Lloyds February
XS0459092127 Bank plc 9.875% GBP430,000 GBP5,113,000 2023 107.50% GBP8,728.41 1 17
LBG Capital
No.2 plc 1
/ Lloyds September
XS0459092556 Bank plc 11.875% GBP3,617,000 GBP15,922,000 2024 114.00% GBP63,027.34 1 18
LBG Capital
No.2 plc
/ Lloyds 15 July
XS0459092804 Bank plc 9.000% GBP428,000 GBP620,000 2029 107.50% GBP29,853.00 1 19
LBG Capital
No.2 plc
/ Lloyds 7 June
XS0459092986 Bank plc 8.500% GBP1,194,000 GBP3,478,000 2032 106.75% GBP89,255.58 1 20
LBG Capital
No.2 plc 21
/ Lloyds December
XS0459089255 Bank plc 15.000% GBP687,000 GBP703,465,000 2019 144.00% GBP26,474.17 1 21
Settlement Date
The expected Settlement Date for Eligible Securities accepted
for purchase by the relevant Offeror pursuant to the Offers is 24
April 2014.
General
For further information please contact:
For analysts:
Charles King
Director of Investor Relations
Lloyds Banking Group
charles.king@lloydsbanking.com
+44 207 356 3537
For press:
Matt Smith
Media Relations
matt.smith@lloydsbanking.com
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+44 207 356 3522
Requests for information in relation to, and for any documents
or materials relating to, the Offers should be directed to:
TENDER AGENT
Lucid Issuer Services Limited
Leroy House
436 Essex Road
London N1 3QP
United Kingdom
Tel: 0800 376 0832
(if calling from outside the UK +44 20 7704 0880)
Attention: Sunjeeve Patel/David Shilson/Victor Parzyjagla
Email: lbg@lucid-is.com
Lines are open from 8.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. (London time) Monday
to Friday (except UK public holidays). Calls from UK landlines
will not be chargeable. Calls from outside the UK will be charged
at the applicable international rate. Different charges may
apply to calls from mobile telephones and calls may be recorded
and randomly monitored for security and training purposes. Please
note that the telephone operators cannot provide advice on the
merits of the Offers or any part of it, nor can they give financial,
tax, investment or legal advice.
Any questions regarding the terms of the Offers may be directed
to any of the Dealer Managers listed below:
GLOBAL CO-ORDINATORS & JOINT LEAD DEALER MANAGERS
BofA Merrill Lynch Goldman Sachs International Lloyds Bank plc
Merrill Lynch International Peterborough Court 10 Gresham Street
2 King Edward Street 133 Fleet Street London EC2V 7AE
London EC1A 1HQ London EC4A 2BB United Kingdom
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Attention: John Cavanagh Attention: Liability Attention: Keval Shah
Tel: +44 20 7995 3715 Management Group Tel: +44 20 7158 2021
Email: john.m.cavanagh@baml.com Tel: +44 20 7774 9862 Email:
Email: liabilitymanagement.eu@gs.com keval.shah@lloydsbanking.com
Attention: Karl Bystedt
Wikblom
Tel: +44 20 7996 0867 Attention: Akis Psarris
Email: Tel: +44 20 7158 3981
karl.bystedtwikblom@baml.com Email:
akis.psarris@lloydsbanking.com
JOINT LEAD DEALER MANAGERS
Barclays Bank PLC UBS Limited
5 The North Colonnade 1 Finsbury Avenue
Canary Wharf London EC2M 2PP
London E14 4BB United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Attention: Liability Management Attention: Liability Management
Group Group
Tel: +44 20 3134 8515 Tel: +44 20 7567 0525
Email: eu.lm@barclays.com Email: mark-t.watkins@ubs.com
/ mahmoud.abdelaal@ubs.com
JOINT DEALER MANAGERS
BNP Paribas Citigroup Global Markets Deutsche Bank AG,
10 Harewood Avenue Limited London Branch
London NW1 6AA Citigroup Centre Winchester House
United Kingdom Canada Square 1 Great Winchester
Canary Wharf Street
London E14 5LB London EC2N 2DB
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Attention: Liability Attention: Liability Attention: Liability
Management Group Management Group Management Group
Tel: +44 20 7595 8668 Tel: +44 20 7986 8969 Tel: +44 20 7545 8011
Email: Email: liabilitymanagement.europe@citi.com Email:
liability.management@bnpparibas liability.management@db.com
.com
J.P. Morgan Securities plc Morgan Stanley & Co. International
25 Bank Street plc
Canary Wharf 25 Cabot Square
London E14 5JP Canary Wharf
United Kingdom London E14 4QA
United Kingdom
Attention: Liability Management Attention: Liability Management
Tel: +44 207 134 3414 / +44 207 Tel: +44 20 7677 5040
134 2468 Email: liabilitymanagementeurope@morganstanley.com
Email: EMEA_LM@jpmorgan.com
DISCLAIMER
This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender
Offer Memorandum, the announcement of the Offers published by the
Offerors on 6 March 2014 and the Eligible Securities Announcement
published on 20 March 2014. If you are in any doubt as to the
contents of this announcement or the Tender Offer Memorandum or the
action you should take, you are recommended to seek your own
financial and legal advice, including as to any tax consequences,
immediately from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor,
accountant or other independent financial or legal adviser.
OFFER RESTRICTIONS
This announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum do not
constitute an offer or an invitation to participate in the Offers
in any jurisdiction in or from which, or to any person to whom, it
is unlawful to make the relevant offer or invitation under
applicable laws. The distribution of this announcement and the
Tender Offer Memorandum in certain jurisdictions may be restricted
by law. Persons into whose possession this announcement and the
Tender Offer Memorandum come are required by each of the Offerors,
the Global Co-ordinators and Joint Lead Dealer Managers, the Joint
Lead Dealer Managers and the Joint Dealer Managers (together, the
"Dealer Managers") and the Tender Agent to inform themselves about,
and to observe, any such restrictions.
United States
The Offers are not being made, and will not be made, directly or
indirectly in or into, or by use of the mail of, or by any means or
instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce of or of any
facilities of a national securities exchange of, the United States
or to any U.S. Person (as defined in Regulation S of the United
States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (each a "U.S. Person")).
This includes, but is not limited to, facsimile transmission,
electronic mail, telex, telephone, the internet and other forms of
electronic communication. The Securities may not be tendered in the
Offers by any such use, means, instrumentality or facility from or
within the United States or by persons located or resident in the
United States or by, or by any person acting for the account or
benefit of, a U.S. Person. Accordingly, copies of this announcement
and the Tender Offer Memorandum and any other documents or
materials relating to the Offers are not being, and must not be,
directly or indirectly mailed or otherwise transmitted, distributed
or forwarded (including, without limitation, by custodians,
nominees or trustees) in or into the United States or to any
persons located or resident in the United States or to any U.S.
Person. Any purported tender of Securities in the Offers resulting
directly or indirectly from a violation of these restrictions will
be invalid and any purported tender of Securities made by, or by
any person acting for the account or benefit of, a U.S. Person or
by a person located in the United States or any agent, fiduciary or
other intermediary acting on a non-discretionary basis for a
principal giving instructions from within the United States will be
invalid and will not be accepted.
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Each Holder participating in the Offers will represent that it
is not a U.S. Person, it is not located in the United States and is
not participating in the Offers from the United States, or it is
acting on a non-discretionary basis for a principal located outside
the United States that is not giving an order to participate in the
Offers from the United States and is not a U.S. Person. For the
purposes of this and the above paragraph, "United States" means the
United States of America, its territories and possessions
(including Puerto Rice, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American
Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana Islands), any state of
the United States of America and the District of Columbia.
Italy
None of this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum or any
other documents or materials relating to the Offers have been or
will be submitted to the clearance procedure of the Commissione
Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa ("CONSOB") pursuant to Italian
laws and regulations.
The Offers are being carried out in the Republic of Italy as an
exempted offer pursuant to article 101-bis, paragraph 3-bis of the
Legislative Decree No. 58 of 24 February 1998, as amended (the
"Financial Services Act") and article 35-bis, paragraph 4 of CONSOB
Regulation No. 11971 of 14 May 1999, as amended (the "Issuers'
Regulation"), as the case may be. The Offers are also being carried
out in compliance with article 35-bis, paragraph 7 of the Issuers'
Regulation.
Holders located in the Republic of Italy can tender Securities
through authorised persons (such as investment firms, banks or
financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in
the Republic of Italy in accordance with the Financial Services
Act, CONSOB Regulation No. 16190 of 29 October 2007, as amended
from time to time, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of September 1,
1993, as amended) and in compliance with applicable laws and
regulations or with requirements imposed by CONSOB or any other
Italian authority.
Each intermediary must comply with the applicable laws and
regulations concerning information duties vis-à-vis its clients in
connection with the Securities or the Offers.
United Kingdom
The communication of this announcement and the Tender Offer
Memorandum by the Offerors and any other documents or materials
relating to the Offers is not being made, and such documents and/or
materials have not been approved, by an authorised person for the
purposes of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act
2000 (the "FSMA"). Accordingly, such documents and/or materials are
not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, the general
public in the United Kingdom. The communication of such documents
and/or materials is exempt from the restriction on financial
promotions under section 21 of the FSMA on the basis that it is
only directed at and may be communicated to (1) those persons who
are existing members or creditors of the relevant Offeror or other
persons within Article 43 of the Financial Services and Markets Act
2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, and (2) to any other persons
to whom these documents and/or materials may lawfully be
communicated. Any investment or investment activity to which this
announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum relates is only
available to such persons or will be engaged in only with such
persons and other persons should not rely on it.
Isle of Man
The communication of this announcement, the Tender Offer
Memorandum and any other documents or materials relating to the
Offers has not been or will not be registered or filed as a
prospectus with any governmental or other authority in the Isle of
Man and the Tender Offer Memorandum has not been approved by the
Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission. Any offer for
subscription, sale or exchange of the Securities in or from the
Isle of Man must be made:
(a) by an Isle of Man financial services licence holder
appropriately licensed under section 7 of the Financial Services
Act 2008 to do so;
(b) in accordance with any relevant exclusion contained within
the Regulated Activities Order 2011; or
(c) in accordance with any available relevant exemption
contained within the Financial Services (Exemptions) Regulations
2011.
Jersey
The communication of this announcement, the Tender Offer
Memorandum and any other documents or materials relating to the
Offers is not subject to and has not received approval from either
the Jersey Financial Services Commission or the Registrar of
Companies in Jersey and no statement to the contrary, explicit or
implicit, is authorised to be made in this regard.
Guernsey
The communication of this announcement, the Tender Offer
Memorandum and any other documents or materials relating to the
Offers has not been approved or authorised by the Guernsey
Financial Services Commission for circulation in Guernsey. The
communication of this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum and
any other documents or materials relating to the Offers may not be
distributed or circulated directly or indirectly to any persons in
the Bailiwick of Guernsey other than (i) by a person licensed to do
so under the terms of the Protection of Investors (Bailiwick of
Guernsey) Law, 1987, as amended, or (ii) to those persons regulated
by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission as licensees under
the Protection of Investors (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1987, as
amended, the Banking Supervision (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1994,
the Insurance Business (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2002 or the
Regulation of Fiduciaries, Administration Business and company
Directors etc. (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2000.
France
The Offers are not being made, directly or indirectly, to any
persons located in the Republic of France. This Tender Offer
Memorandum has not been submitted to the clearance to the clearance
procedures (visa) of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.
Belgium
Neither this Tender Offer Memorandum nor any other documents or
materials relating to the Offers have been submitted to or will be
submitted for approval or recognition to the Financial Services and
Markets Authority (Autoriteit Financiële Diensten en Markten /
Autorité des Services et Marches Financiers) and, accordingly, the
Offers may not be made in Belgium and neither this Tender Offer
Memorandum nor any other documents or materials relating to the
Offers (including any memorandum, information circular, brochure or
any similar documents) has been or shall be distributed or made
available, directly or indirectly, to any person in Belgium.
Accordingly, the information contained in this Tender Offer
Memorandum may not be used for any purpose or disclosed to any
person in Belgium.
General
None of the Dealer Managers or the Tender Agent (or their
respective directors, employees or affiliates) makes any
representation or recommendation whatsoever regarding this
announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum or the Offers, and none
of the Offerors, the Dealer Managers or the Tender Agent (or their
respective directors, employees or affiliates) makes any
recommendation as to whether Holders should tender Eligible
Securities in the Offers. The Tender Agent is an agent of the
Offerors and owes no duty to any Holder.
The Offers do not constitute an offer to buy or the solicitation
of an offer to sell Securities (and tenders of Securities in the
Offers will not be accepted from Holders) in any circumstances in
which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. In those
jurisdictions where the securities, blue sky or other laws require
any Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer and any of the
Dealer Managers or any of the Dealer Managers' respective
affiliates is such a licensed broker or dealer in any such
jurisdiction, such Offer shall be deemed to be made by such Dealer
Manager or affiliate, as the case may be, on behalf of the Offerors
in such jurisdiction and such Offer is not made in any such
jurisdiction where any Dealer Manager or any of its affiliates is
not licensed.
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