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Published on 12/16/2011 in the Prospect News Investment Grade Daily and Prospect News Liability Management Daily.

BNP Paribas reports results in exchange offer for four note series

By Jennifer Chiou

New York, Dec. 2 - BNP Paribas announced the final results of its exchange offers for four series of subordinated securities.

Holders were offered new senior floating-rate notes due 2014 in the offers that ended at midnight ET on Dec. 15.

Holders tendered a total of $280,196,000 of the bank's $1.35 billion of undated deeply subordinated non-cumulative notes, $599.4 million of its $1,168,950,000 of step-up floating-rate dated ordinary subordinated callable notes due 2017, $326,591,000 of its $750 million of 5.125% subordinated notes due 2015 and $302,802,000 of its $750 million of 4.8% subordinated notes due 2015.

As a result, the company will issue $1,411,618,000 of the new notes on Dec. 20.

As of the early deadline at 5 p.m. ET on Dec. 1, holders had tendered $279,554,000 of the undated deeply subordinated notes, $597.4 million of the step-up floaters, $323,641,000 of the 5.125% notes and $302,737,000 of the 4.8% notes.

The company launched the offers on Nov. 17.

For each $1,000 principal amount, the exchange price is $995.26 for the 5.125% notes, $984.38 for the 4.8% notes, $730.00 for the undated notes and $975.00 for the floating-rate notes.

These prices include an early participation payment of $50.00 for each note tendered by the early participation date.

The company will also pay accrued interest up to but excluding the settlement date.

The exchange prices for the 5.125% notes and 4.8% notes were determined at 2 p.m. ET on Nov. 29 based on the bid-side yield of the 1% Treasury due Oct. 31, 2016 plus a spread of 440 basis points.

The exchange and information agent was D.F. King & Co., Inc. (800 967-5079, 212 269-5550 or bnpparibas@dfking.com).

BNP Paribas is a financial services company based in Paris.


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