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Published on 5/18/2020 in the Prospect News Emerging Markets Daily.

New Issue: Equate details $1.6 billion bonds; coupons 5% for five-, 5 7/8% for 10-year paper

By Sarah Lizee

Olympia, Wash., May 18 – Kuwait’s Equate Petrochemical Co. KSCC priced its $1 billion of five-year bonds with a coupon of 5% and its $600 million of 10-year bonds with a coupon of 5 7/8%, according to two term sheets.

The coupons for the tranches had not previously been reported.

As previously reported, the bonds were sold at par through subsidiary MEGlobal Canada ULC, according to a notice.

Equate and Kuwait Olefins Co. KSCC are guarantors for the issue.

J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Citi, MUFG, NBK Capital, FAB, HSBC, Mizuho and SMBC Nikko are the bookrunners.

Equate is an Ahmadi, Kuwait-based petrochemical company that is 85% owned by Petrochemical Industries Co. and Dow Chemical.

Issuer:MEGlobal Canada ULC
Guarantors:Equate Petrochemical Co. KSCC and Kuwait Olefins Co. KSCC
Issue:Fixed-rate notes
Amount:$1.6 billion
Bookrunners:J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Citi, MUFG, NBK Capital, FAB, HSBC, Mizuho and SMBC Nikko
Listing:Euronext Dublin
Settlement date:May 18
Five-year bonds
Amount:$1 billion
Maturity:Five years
Coupon:5%
Price:Par
10-year bonds
Amount:$600 million
Maturity:10 years
Coupon:5 7/8%
Price:Par

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