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Asters acted as Ukrainian law counsel to VimpelCom on USD 2.2 billion Eurobond Issue by its subsidiary VimpelCom Holdings B.V.
Asters law firm, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, July 27, 2011
Asters advised VimpelCom, a leading international telecommunications holding and Kyivstar's parent, on USD 2.2 billion debt financing with 3-year floating rate guaranteed notes, long 5-year guaranteed notes and long 10-year guaranteed notes, all guaranteed by VimpelCom Holdings' subsidiary OJSC "Vimpel-Communications".
The 3-year USD 200 million floating rate notes bear an annual interest rate of 3 month USD LIBOR plus 4.00% and is due in June 2014. The long 5-year USD 500 million issue has a coupon of 6.2546% and is due in March 2017. The long 10-year USD 1.5 billion issue has a coupon of 7.5043% and is due in March 2022.
Barclays Bank PLC, BNP Paribas, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, HSBC Bank plc, ING Bank N.V. and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc have acted as lead managers for the financing. VimpelCom Holdings B.V. intends to use the net proceeds from the issuance to provide funds to its direct parent, VimpelCom Amsterdam B.V., to repay any outstanding amounts under VimpelCom Amsterdam B.V.'s loan from a group of international banks (including Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Citibank, N.A., London Branch, ING Bank NV, HSBC Bank plc and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc) in a principal amount of up to USD 2.5 billion due March 31, 2012 (USD 2.2 billion of which was drawn down).
Asters' transaction team included associates Svitlana Chepurna, Yevgen Kravtsov, Anna Novodvorska and Yevgen Porada under supervision of senior partner Armen Khachaturyan and managing partner Oleksiy Didkovskiy. Akin Gump LLP acted as English law counsel to the issuer.
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Asters is a full-service independent national law firm. With 15 years of experience the firm has one of the longest track records on the country's young legal market. Asters is among the most recommended law firms for Ukraine according to reputable international legal directories The Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer?, Chambers Global, IFLR 1000, and Ukraine's legal market research publications. A list of the firm's clients includes major international corporations, such as Boeing, Coca-Cola, Marathon Oil, Miele, News Corp., New Line Cinema, Nissan Motor, Nokia Corporation, Philip Morris, Renault, Telenor ASA, Toshiba Corporation, and the world's leading financial institutions ABN AMRO, Barclays Capital, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, EBRD, IFC, ING Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Standard Bank, Swedbank and the World Bank.
