New bond issue: ALROSA sells USD 725m in 2012 bonds with zero coupon
ALROSA (Russia) on March 14, 2012 placed USD 725m in bonds with a zero coupon maturing in 2012, via SPV Alrosa Finance S.A. The deal was priced to yield 4.125%. Goldman Sachs, UBS, VTB Capital arranged the deal.
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Issuer, issue number: ALROSA, 2012 (zero, ECP)
Type of debt instrument: Eurobonds
Issue status: outstanding
Type of placement: public
Par, currency of issue: USD, 500000
Amount: 725 000 000
ISIN: XS0761526168
End of placement: Mar 14 2012
Yield at Pricing: 4.125%
Coupon: zero
Settlement Date: Mar 21 2012
Maturity date: Dec 21 2012
Issue Managers: Goldman Sachs, UBS, VTB Capital
Trading floor: OTC Market
Issuer profile:
ALROSA is Russia's major company dealing with exploration, mining, cutting and sales of diamonds. It is one of the largest diamond producers in the world, whose share in the global production is about 25 percent.
In 2003 the company produced diamonds totaling $1.65bn. The volume of sales of core products amounted to $1.82bn in 2003, including brilliants totaling $123.4m. ALROSA plans to mine diamonds totaling $1.86bn in 2004. The main shareholders in ALROSA are the Property Ministry of Russia (37 percent of the shares), and the State Property Ministry of the Republic of Yakutia (32 percent).
ALROSA Co. Ltd. was set up under Decree 158C of the President of the Russian Federation 'On the Establishment of the Almazy Rossii-Sakha Joint Stock Company' signed on 19 February 1992. It is Russia's largest diamond company engaged in exploration, mining, manufacture and sales of diamonds and one of the world's major rough diamond producers. Geological surveys indicate that the company has sufficient diamond reserves to maintain production at the current level for the next 50 years.
Outstanding issues:
4 issue(s) outstanding worth USD 2 540 000 000
4 issue(s) outstanding worth RUR 26 000 000 000
Issuer's rating:
Moody's Investors Service Ba3/Stable Int. Scale (foreign curr) 21.09.2010
Standard & Poor's BB-/Stable Int. Scale (foreign curr.) 21.10.2011
Standard & Poor's BB-/Stable Int. Scale (loc. curr.) 21.10.2011
Fitch Ratings BB-/Stable Int. Scale (foreign curr.) 11.10.2011
National Rating Agency A+ National scale (Russia) 06.07.2007