Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has raised a multi-tranche US bond offering aggregating US $4 billion - US $1.5 billion, 2.875% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2032; US $ 1.75 billion, 3.625% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2052; and US $ 0.75 billion, 3.750% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2062.  

 

The Notes are rated BBB+ by S&P and Baa2 by Moody’s. The Notes were nearly 3 times oversubscribed with a peak orderbook aggregating around US$11.5 billion and were priced through RIL’s secondary curve.

 

The Notes have been priced at 120 basis points, 160 basis points and 170 basis points over the respective US Treasuries benchmark.

RIL has joined a select group of issuers from Asia to have made jumbo bond issuances.

 

Interest on the Notes will be payable semi-annually in arrears and the Notes shall rank pari passu with all other unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of RIL. The bond proceeds will be primarily used for refinancing of existing borrowings.

 

The Notes received orders from over 200 accounts in Asia, Europe, and the United States. In terms of geographic distribution, the Notes were distributed: 53% in Asia, 14% in Europe, and 33% in the United States.

 

The Notes were distributed to high quality fixed income accounts: 69% to fund managers, 24% to insurance companies, 5% to banks and 2% to public institutions.

 

Srikanth Venkatachari, Joint Chief Financial Officer, RIL said, “We are extremely pleased with the strong outcome on our multi-tranche long dated USD bond issuance, having issued not only the largest debt capital market transaction at US $4 billion but also the tightest credit spreads across each of the long-dated tenors for any corporate in India.”

 

“The support received from the marquee international capital market investors is reflective of the strength of our underlying businesses with established growth platforms across energy, consumer and technology as well as robustness of our balance sheet. This issue continues the tradition of Reliance being a sophisticated and innovative issuer across the capital structure,” added Venkatachari.