Sep 2020
Conyers advised Tengizchevroil Finance Company International, a subsidiary of Tengizchevroil (TCO) on its capital raise of US$5 billion through an unregistered offering of senior secured bonds in the international markets and private loans that mirror the terms of those bonds.
The financing consists of US$1.25 billion of senior secured bonds sold internationally to investors under Rule 144A/Regulation S and the remainder in the form of senior secured pari passu loans provided by partners. The financing had many notable features including.
- The bonds were rated investment grade by Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, piercing the Kazakhstan sovereign ceiling by one notch.
- The US$500 million principal amount of bonds due 2025 priced at a yield to maturity of 2.75%, the lowest-ever U.S. dollar yield for any borrower from the region of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
- The US$750 million principal amount of bonds due 2030 priced at a yield to maturity of 3.375%, the lowest-ever U.S. dollar yield for any borrower from Kazakhstan.
Conyers also advised TCO on its US$16 billion expansion project financing, named Project Finance International’s “European Oil & Gas Deal of the Year” in 2016. Director Guy Cooper and Associate Katie Martin worked on the matter alongside Sullivan & Cromwell.