PAO TMK / Miscellaneous - Urgent Priority TMK Announces Tender Offer Results via Alfa Capital / CITI / JPM 25-Apr-2016 / 13:38 CET/CEST Dissemination of a Regulatory Announcement, transmitted by EquityStory.RS, LLC - a company of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ITS TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS (INCLUDING PUERTO RICO, THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS, GUAM, AMERICAN SAMOA, WAKE ISLAND AND THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS), ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (THE 'UNITED STATES') OR TO ANY U.S. PERSON (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (EACH A 'U.S. PERSON')) OR TO ANY PERSON LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE IT IS UNLAWFUL TO DISTRIBUTE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. OTHER RESTRICTIONS APPLY (SEE 'OFFER RESTRICTIONS' BELOW). 25 April 2016 TMK ANNOUNCES TENDER OFFER RESULTS On 13 April 2016 TMK Capital S.A. (the 'Offeror') launched an invitation to eligible holders of the outstanding U.S.$500,000,000 7.75 per cent. loan participation notes due 2018 (the 'Notes') issued by, but with limited recourse to, the Offeror for the sole purpose of financing a loan to PAO TMK (the 'Borrower') to tender their Notes for purchase by the Offeror for cash (the 'Tender Offer'). Capitalised terms used in this announcement but not otherwise defined have the meanings given to them in the Tender Offer Memorandum dated 13 April 2016 (the 'Tender Offer Memorandum'). The Tender Offer expired at 4:00 p.m. (London time) on 22 April 2016. As at the Expiration Time, an aggregate nominal amount of Notes equal to U.S.$177,453,000 has been validly tendered in the Tender Offer. The Offeror hereby announces that it has accepted for purchase an aggregate principal amount of Notes equal to U.S.$177,453,000 as set out in the table below: Description of the Notes Common code/ISIN Outstanding principal Aggregate principal Outstanding principal amount on launch of the amount of Notes Accepted amount following Tender Offer for Purchase settlement of the Tender Offer U.S.$500,000,000 7.75 058521159/ U.S.$408,820,000 U.S.$177,453,000 U.S.$231,367,000 per cent. Loan XS0585211591 Participation Notes due 2018 All the Notes validly tendered for purchase have been accepted in full without pro-ration. The Offeror will also pay the Accrued Interest Amount in respect of all Notes accepted for purchase. The expected Settlement Date for the Tender Offer is 28 April 2016. Contact Details: THE JOINT DEALER MANAGERS Alfa Capital Holdings (Cyprus) Limited Themistokli Dervi 5 Elenion Building, 2nd Floor P.C. 1066, Nicosia, Cyprus Telephone: +357 22470900 Email: dhadjisavvas@alfacapital.com.cy Attention: Dinos Hadjisavvas Citigroup Global Markets Limited Citigroup Centre, Canada Square London E14 5LB United Kingdom Attention: Liability Management Group Telephone: +44 20 7986 8969 Email: liabilitymanagement.europe@citi.com J.P. Morgan Securities plc 25 Bank Street Canary Wharf London E14 5JP Telephone: +44 20 7134 2468 Attention: Liability Management Email: em_europe_lm@jpmorgan.com THE TENDER AGENT Lucid Issuer Services Limited Tankerton Works 12 Argyle Walk London WC1H 8HA Tel: +44 20 7704 0880 Attention: Thomas Choquet Email: tmk@lucid-is.com THE OFFEROR TMK Capital S.A. 2. Boulevard Konrad Adenauer L-1115 Luxembourg Grand Duchy of Luxembourg THE BORROWER PAO TMK 40, Bld. 2A, Pokrovka Street, 105062 Moscow, Russian Federation OFFER RESTRICTIONS THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES OR IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE IT IS UNLAWFUL TO DO SO. United States The Tender Offer is not being made and will not be made, directly or indirectly, in or into, or by use of the mails of, or by any means or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce of, or of any facilities of a national securities exchange of, the United States or to, or for the account of benefit of, any U.S. person. This includes, but is not limited to, facsimile transmission, electronic mail, telex, telephone, the internet and other forms of electronic communication. Accordingly, copies of this Announcement and/or the Tender Offer Memorandum and any other documents or materials relating to the Tender Offer is not being, and must not be, directly or indirectly, mailed or otherwise transmitted, distributed or forwarded (including, without limitation, by custodians, nominees or trustees) in or into the United States or to, or for the account of benefit of, a U.S. Person and the Notes cannot be tendered in the Tender Offer by any such use, means, instrumentality or facility or from or within or by persons located or resident in the United States or by any U.S. Person or any person acting for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person. Any purported tender of Notes in the Tender Offer resulting directly or indirectly from a violation of these restrictions will be invalid and any purported tender of Notes made by a person located in the United States, a U.S. Person, by any person acting for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person, or by any agent, fiduciary or other intermediary acting on a non-discretionary basis for a principal giving instructions from within the United States will be invalid and will not be accepted. Each holder of Notes participating in the Tender Offer will represent that it is not a U.S. Person, is not located in the United States and is not participating in the Tender Offer from the United States, or it is acting on a non-discretionary basis for a principal located outside the United States that is not giving an order to participate in the Tender Offer from the United States and who is not a U.S. Person. United Kingdom The communication of this Announcement and/or the Tender Offer Memorandum and any other documents or materials relating to the Tender Offer is not being made, and such documents and/or materials have not been approved, by an authorised person for the purposes of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the 'FSMA'). Accordingly, such documents and/or materials are not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, the general public in the United Kingdom. The communication of such documents and/or materials is exempt from the restriction on financial promotions under section 21 of the FSMA on the basis that it is only directed at and may be communicated to (1) those persons who are existing members or creditors of the Offeror or other persons within Article 43 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended, and (2) to any other persons to whom these documents and/or materials may lawfully be communicated. France The Tender Offer is not being made, directly or indirectly, to the public in the Republic of France ('France'). Neither this Announcement nor the Tender Offer Memorandum nor any other documents or materials relating to the Tender Offer has been or shall be distributed to the public in France and only (i) providers of investment services relating to portfolio management for the account of third parties (personnes fournissant le service d'investissement de gestion de portefeuille pour compte de tiers) and/or (ii) qualified investors (investisseurs qualifiés) other than individuals acting on their own account and all as defined in, and in accordance with, Articles L.411-1, L.411-2 and D.411-1 of the French Code Monétaire et Financier, are eligible to participate in the Tender Offer. This Announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum and any other document or material relating to the Tender Offer has not been and will not be submitted for clearance to nor approved by the Autorité des marchés financiers. Italy None of the Tender Offer, this Announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum or any other documents or materials relating to the Tender Offer have been or will be submitted to the clearance procedure of the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa ('CONSOB') pursuant to Italian laws and regulations. The Tender Offer is being carried out in the Republic of Italy as exempted offers pursuant to article 101-bis, paragraph 3-bis of the Legislative Decree No. 58 of 24 February 1998, as amended (the 'Financial Services Act') and article 35-bis, paragraph 4 of CONSOB Regulation No. 11971 of 14 May 1999, as amended. Qualifying Holders can tender some or all of their Notes pursuant to the Tender Offer through authorised persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in Italy in accordance with the Financial Services Act, CONSOB Regulation No. 16190 of 29 October 2007, as amended from time to time, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of September 1, 1993, as amended) and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations or with requirements imposed by CONSOB or any other Italian authority. Each intermediary must comply with the applicable laws and regulations concerning information duties vis-à-vis its clients in connection with the Notes or the Tender Offer. Russia Neither this Announcement, nor Tender Offer Memorandum nor information contained therein nor any other document or materials relating to the Tender Offer is an offer, or an invitation to make offers, to sell, exchange or otherwise transfer securities in the Russian Federation to or for the benefit of any Russian person or entity and does not constitute an advertisement or offering of securities in the Russian Federation within the meaning of Russian securities
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