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10 December 2024
Deals | France | Banking & Finance
Gide advised Roquette Frères, a global leader of plant-based ingredients and world-class player in pharmaceutical excipients, for the health and nutrition sectors, in connection with its (i) inaugural issue of EUR 600 million undated deeply subordinated notes with a fixed rate of 5.494% until the first reset date (the Subordinated Notes) and (ii) inaugural issue of EUR 600 million senior notes with a 3.774% fixed coupon (the Senior Notes and, together with the Subordinated Notes, the Notes) in the context of the refinancing of the acquisition of IFF Pharma Solutions, to become a world-class leader in pharmaceutical excipients. The Notes have been admitted to trading on Euronext Paris.
Gide’s team was led by partner Laurent Vincent, assisted by counsels Aude-Laurène Dourdain and Louis Ravaud, and associates Emilie Radisson and Boubacar Ndiaye on the capital market aspects; partner Eric Cartier-Millon and counsel Sarah Whitley on the banking aspects; partner Jean-Baptiste de Martigny and associate Abel Colomb on the corporate aspects; and partner Laurent Modave, associates Sacha Najafi and Chloé Tabone on the tax aspects.
The syndicate of banks was composed of BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB and Société Générale Corporate & Investment Bank, as Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners, and CIC Market Solutions, Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE, HSBC, J.P. Morgan and Natixis as Joint Bookrunners.
