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INEOS ANNOUNCES Planned repricing of ALL outstanding borrowings under ITS senior secured term LOANS AGREEMENT AND refinancing of its senior secured notes due 2015
INEOS Group Holdings S.A. (“INEOS”) today announced that its indirect, wholly owned, finance subsidiaries, INEOS Finance plc and INEOS US Finance LLC, intend to (i) enter into an amendment agreement to, among other things, decrease the interest rates (the “Repricing”) applicable to all outstanding borrowings under its Senior Secured Term Loans Agreement and (ii) borrow additional term loans of approximately $1.0 billion (in a combination of euro and U.S. dollars) under the amended Senior Secured Term Loans Agreement. The net proceeds from the additional borrowings will be used to refinance INEOS Finance plc’s outstanding senior secured notes due 2015 (the “Refinancing”). There can be no assurance that the Repricing, the Refinancing or other transactions will be completed.
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