AFC closes Debut Dual Currency Samurai Term Loan Facility

&NewLine;<p>Africa Finance Corporation &lpar;&&num;8220&semi;AFC&&num;8221&semi; or&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;the Corporation&&num;8221&semi;&rpar;&comma; Africa&&num;8217&semi;s leading investment-grade infrastructure&NewLine;solutions provider&comma; announces the successful closure of general syndication&NewLine;which raised US&dollar; 233 million and JPY 1 billion&period;&nbsp&semi;MUFG Bank&comma; Ltd&period;&NewLine;&lpar;&&num;8220&semi;MUFG&&num;8221&semi;&rpar; and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation &lpar;&&num;8220&semi;SMBC&&num;8221&semi;&rpar;&NewLine;acted as Mandated Lead Arranger and Bookrunner&period;&nbsp&semi;MUFG will be acting as Facility Agent on the&NewLine;transaction&comma; while SMBC will be acting as Documentation Agent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This is contained in a press statement by African&NewLine;Media Agency&comma; made available to OpenLife&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According to the statement&comma; the Facility&comma; which&NewLine;comprises two tranches&comma; with both tranches &lpar;US&dollar;-denominated Tranche A and&NewLine;JPY-denominated Tranche B&rpar; carrying a tenor of three years each &lpar;bullet&NewLine;repayment&rpar;&comma; is AFC&&num;8217&semi;s first Asian-currency denominated loan facility&period; It is an&NewLine;important step as the Corporation builds a broad coalition of investors to&NewLine;diversify its funds and allow institutions from around the globe to participate&NewLine;in Africa&&num;8217&semi;s development&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The fund raise was very well received in the&NewLine;Japanese loan market leading to the issue being significantly over-subscribed&period;&NewLine;This is the largest debut Samurai Loan by an African issuer&period; The facility was&NewLine;signed on 6 September 2019 with eight Japanese lenders committing to the&NewLine;Facility&period; The Facility launched into general syndication on 23 July 2019 at a&NewLine;launch amount of US&dollar; 150 million&period;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;Proceeds from the Facility will be used for general corporate purposes in&NewLine;accordance with AFC&&num;8217&semi;s Establishment Agreement and the Charter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><br>&NewLine;Samaila Zubairu&comma; President and CEO of AFC&comma; commented&colon; &&num;8220&semi;The market&&num;8217&semi;s keen&NewLine;interest in participating in AFC&&num;8217&semi;s clearly defined African growth strategy is&NewLine;demonstrated by the wide pool of lenders that supported the syndication&period; The&NewLine;success of this loan offering is testament to AFC&&num;8217&semi;s ability to diversify our&NewLine;funding sources as we build a coalition of investors to support our mandate of&NewLine;providing solutions to Africa&&num;8217&semi;s infrastructure deficit as well as to our strong&NewLine;fundamentals as an investment-grade institution&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;