Glencore PLC Glencore Announces Tender Offer Upsizing & Results

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Glencore PLC

18 October 2016

Glencore plc

Baar, Switzerland

18 October, 2016

Glencore Announces Tender Offer Early Participation Results and Upsizing of the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount

Glencore Funding LLC (the "Company") has accepted U.S.$1,492,056,000 of principal amount of Notes for purchase as of its Early Tender Date today. The Offers commenced on October 3, 2016 and will expire on October 31, 2016 at 11:59pm, New York City time. The Lead Dealer Managers will calculate the Fixed Rate Total Offer Consideration and the Fixed Rate Base Offer Consideration for the Fixed Rate Notes in the manner described in the Offer to Purchase on October 18, 2016 at 11:00am, New York time. In addition, the Company has increased the previously announced "Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount", pertaining to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes accepted for purchase, from U.S.$1,250,000,000 to U.S.$1,492,056,000.

 
  Title          Rule 144A                               Outstanding             Acceptance       Principal       Principal 
    of             CUSIP/              Reg S              Principal               Priority          Amount          Amount 
 Security           ISIN                ISIN                Amount                  Level          Tendered        Accepted 
---------      --------------      --------------      ----------------        --------------    ------------    ------------ 
2019 Notes - subject to the 2019 Maximum Tender 
 Amount of U.S.$1,000,000,000 in aggregate principal 
 amount 
  3.125%             378272           XS1028955760       U.S.$1,000,000,0             1          U.S.$406,900    U.S.$406,900 
   Notes              AG3/                                      00                                   ,000            ,000 
  due 2019        US378272AG37 
  2.500%             378272           XS0938722401       U.S.$1,471,288,0             2          U.S.$686,219    U.S.$593,100 
   Notes              AD0/                                      00                                   ,000            ,000 
  due 2019        US378272AD06 
 Floating            378272           XS0938722583       U.S.$500,000,000             3          U.S.$298,643       U.S.$0 
 Rate Notes           AE8/                                                                           ,000 
  due 2019        US378272AE88 
2018 Notes - subject to the Aggregate Maximum Tender 
 Amount minus aggregate principal amount of 2019 
 Notes accepted for purchase 
  2.125%             378272           XS1218431705        U.S.$466,205,000             4         U.S.$306,721    U.S.$306,721 
   Notes              AJ7/                                                                           ,000            ,000 
  due 2018        US378272AJ75 
 Floating            378272           XS1218431960        U.S.$233,484,000             5         U.S.$185,335    U.S.$185,335 
 Rate Notes           AM0/                                                                           ,000            ,000 
  due 2018        US378272AM05 
 
 

Subject to the 2019 Maximum Tender Amount as described in the Offer to Purchase, Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Tender Date with an Acceptance Priority Level of 2 have been prorated using a proration factor of approximately 86.59 per cent. All Notes not accepted as a result of proration have been rejected from the Offers.

No Notes tendered after the Early Tender Date have been or will be accepted for purchase. The Offers will expire at 11:59pm on October 31, 2016, New York City time.

Noteholders who validly tendered their Notes pursuant to the Offer to Purchase on or prior to the Early Tender Date and accepted for purchase (subject to proration) will receive the Total Offer Consideration (including the Early Tender Premium), which, in the case of the 3.125 per cent. Notes due 2019, the 2.500 per cent. Notes due 2019 and the 2.125 per cent. Notes due 2018, will be calculated on October 18, 2016 at 11:00am, New York City time. Noteholders who are eligible for the Total Offer Consideration will receive U.S.$1,010.00 for the Floating Rate Notes due 2019 and U.S.$1,010.00 for the Floating Rate Notes due 2018., in each case per U.S.$1,000 principal amount of notes. The Company will also pay to Noteholders all accrued and unpaid interest on the applicable Notes (rounded to the nearest U.S.$0.01 with U.S.$0.005 being rounded upwards) ("Accrued Interest") up to, but not including, the Early Payment Date. The Early Payment Date for each Offer is expected to occur on October 20, 2016.

Subject to applicable securities laws and the terms set within the Offer to Purchase, the Company expressly reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to (i) terminate an Offer and not accept for purchase any Notes not theretofore accepted for purchase, (ii) waive any or all of the conditions of any Offer prior to the date of acceptance for purchase of Notes in that Offer, (iii) extend the Early Tender Date or the Expiration Date, in each case, without extending the Withdrawal Deadline (unless otherwise required by law), (iv) increase or decrease the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount and/or the 2019 Maximum Tender Amount or (v) amend the terms of any Offer.

Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this announcement have the same meaning assigned to them in the Offer to Purchase dated October 3, 2016.

For further information please contact:

 
 Investors 
 Martin Fewings       t: +41 41       m: +41 79      [e-mail] 
                      709 28 80       737 56 42 
 Carlos-Francisco     t: +41 41       m: +41 79      [e-mail] 
  Fernandez           709 23 69       129 91 95 
 Media 
 Charles              t: +41 41       m: +41 79      [e-mail] 
  Watenphul           709 24 62       904 33 20 
 Pam Bell             t: +44 20       m: +44 77      [e-mail] 
                      7412 3471       3031 9806 
 
 

D.F. King & Co., Inc. has been appointed by the Company as information agent and tender agent for the purposes of the Offers.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated have been appointed as the Lead Dealer Managers, and Mizuho Securities USA Inc., Santander Investment Securities Inc. and Standard Chartered Bank have been appointed as the Co-Dealer Managers, for the purposes of the Offers.

Holders of the Notes may access the Offer to Purchase at www.dfking.com/glencore and requests for information in relation to the Tender Offers should be directed to the Lead Dealer Managers or the Information Agent.

 
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NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER

This announcement is neither an offer to purchase, nor a solicitation of an offer to sell the Notes or any other securities. The Company is making the offers only by, and pursuant to, the terms of the Offer to Purchase. The offers are not being made in any jurisdiction in which the making of or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities laws, blue sky laws or other laws of such jurisdiction. None of the Company, the Guarantors, the Dealer Managers, the Tender Agent or the Information Agent is making any recommendation as to whether Holders should tender or refrain from tendering their Notes in response to the Offers or how much they should tender. Each Holder must make his, her or its own decision as to whether to tender or refrain from tendering Notes, and, if a Holder determines to tender, as to how many Notes of each series to tender.

OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS

This announcement and the Offer to Purchase do not constitute an offer or an invitation to participate in the Offers in any jurisdiction in which, or to any person to or from whom, it is unlawful to make such offer or invitation or for there to be such participation under applicable laws. The distribution of this announcement and the Offer to Purchase in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession this announcement or the Offer to Purchase comes are required by each of the Company, the Guarantors, the Dealer Managers, the Tender Agent and the Information Agent to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions.

United Kingdom

The communication of this announcement, the Offer to Purchase and any other documents or materials relating to the Offers 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. 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, and are only for circulation to persons to whom they can lawfully be circulated outside the United Kingdom or to persons within the United Kingdom falling within the definition of investment professionals (as defined in Article 19(5) of the Order), or within Article 43(2) of the Order, or within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order, or to other persons to whom it may lawfully be communicated in accordance with the Order (such persons together being the "Relevant Persons"). This announcement, the Offer to Purchase and any other documents or materials relating to the Offers are only available to Relevant Persons and the transactions contemplated herein will be available only to, and engaged in only with, Relevant Persons, and this Offer to Purchase must not be relied or acted upon by persons other than Relevant Persons.

Belgium

None of this announcement, the Offer to Purchase nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offers in respect of each Series of Securities have been submitted to or will be submitted for approval or recognition to the Financial Services and Markets Authority ("Authorite des services et marches financiers/Autoriteit financiele diensten en markten") and, accordingly, the Offers may not be made in Belgium by way of a public offering, as defined in Articles 3 and 6 of the Belgian Law of 1 April 2007 on public takeover bids (the "Belgian Takeover Law") as amended or replaced from time to time. Accordingly, the Offers may not be advertised and the Offers will not be extended, and none of this announcement, the Offer to Purchase nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offers (including any memorandum, information circular, brochure or any similar documents) has been or shall be distributed or made available, directly or indirectly, to any person in Belgium other than (i) to "qualified investors" in the sense of Article 10 of the Belgian Law of 16 June 2006 on the public offer of placement instruments and the admission to trading of placement instruments on regulated markets, acting on their own account or (ii) in any circumstances set out in Article 6, -- 4 of the Belgian Takeover Law. This announcement and the Offer to Purchase have been issued only for the personal use of the above qualified investors and exclusively for the purpose of the Offers. Accordingly, the information contained in this announcement and the Offer to Purchase may not be used for any other purposes or disclosed to any other person in Belgium.

France

The Offers are not being made, directly or indirectly, to the public in France. None of this announcement, the Offer to Purchase nor any other documents or offering materials relating to the Offers in respect of each Series of Securities have 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 portfeuille pour compte de tiers) and/or (ii) qualified investors (investisseurs qualifiés), all as defined in, and in accordance with, Articles L.411-1, L.411-2 and D.411-1 to D.411-3 of the French Code monétaire et financier, are eligible to participate in the Offers. Neither this announcement nor the Offer to Purchase has been submitted to the clearance procedures (visa) of the Autorité des marchés financiers.

Italy

None of this announcement, the Offer to Purchase nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offers 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 Offers are 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 (the "Issuers' Regulation"). The Offers are also being carried out in compliance with article 35-bis, paragraph 7 of the Issuers' Regulation.

A holder of Notes located in the Republic of Italy can tender Notes through authorized persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in the Republic of 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 Offers.

General

Neither this announcement nor the Offer to Purchase constitutes an offer to buy or a solicitation of an offer to sell Securities, and tenders of Securities in the Offers will not be accepted from Holders, in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. In those jurisdictions where the securities, blue sky or other laws require an Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer and a Dealer Manager or its affiliate is such a licensed broker or dealer in such jurisdictions, the Offer shall be deemed to be made on behalf of the Company by such Dealer Manager or such affiliate, as the case may be, and no Offer is made in any such jurisdiction where the relevant Dealer Manager or its affiliate is not so licensed.

Glencore

Glencore is one of the world's largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 90 commodities. The Group's operations comprise around 150 mining and metallurgical sites, oil production assets and agricultural facilities.

With a strong footprint in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, Glencore's industrial and marketing activities are supported by a global network of more than 90 offices located in over 50 countries.

Glencore's customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, oil and food processing. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities. Glencore's companies employ around 160,000 people, including contractors.

Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. We are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

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