REG - Pension Ins Corp plc - PIC PLC Announces Tender Offers

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RNS Number : 5889N  Pension Insurance Corporation PLC  08 May 2024

Pension Insurance Corporation plc announces Tender Offers for its
£300,000,000 6.50 per cent. Fixed Rate Subordinated Notes due 2024 and its
£250,000,000 8.00 per cent. Fixed Rate Subordinated Notes due 2026

NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO OR TO ANY PERSON
LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES, 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 OR
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (the United States) OR IN OR INTO OR TO ANY PERSON
LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE OR TO WHOM IT IS UNLAWFUL
TO RELEASE, PUBLISH OR DISTRIBUTE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT (SEE "OFFER AND
DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS" BELOW).

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT RELATES TO THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION THAT QUALIFIED OR
MAY HAVE QUALIFIED AS INSIDE INFORMATION WITHIN THE MEANING OF ARTICLE 7(1) OF
THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU) 596/2014 AS IT FORMS PART OF UK DOMESTIC LAW
BY VIRTUE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018 (EUWA).

8 May 2024. Pension Insurance Corporation plc (the Company) announces today
separate invitations to holders of its outstanding: (i) £300,000,000 6.50 per
cent. Fixed Rate Subordinated Notes due 2024 (ISIN: XS1083983376) (the 2024
Notes); and (ii) £250,000,000 8.00 per cent. Fixed Rate Subordinated Notes
due 2026 (ISIN: XS1523966197) (the 2026 Notes and, together with the 2024
Notes, the Notes and each a Series) to tender any and all of their Notes for
purchase by the Company for cash (each an Offer and together the Offers)
subject to terms and conditions contained in the tender offer memorandum,
including (without limitation) the satisfaction (or waiver) of the New
Financing Condition (as defined below). The Offers are being made on the terms
and subject to the conditions contained in the Tender Offer Memorandum dated 8
May 2024 (the Tender Offer Memorandum) prepared by the Company for the Offers,
and are subject to the offer restrictions set out below and as more fully
described in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Copies of the Tender Offer Memorandum are (subject to distribution
restrictions) available from the Tender Agent as set out below. Capitalised
terms used in this announcement but not otherwise defined have the meanings
given to them in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Summary of the Offers

 Description of the Notes  ISIN /                    Outstanding nominal amount  Coupon          Maturity Date     Purchase Price                        Benchmark Security                                                         Purchase Spread  Amount subject to the Offers

Common Code
 2024 Notes                XS1083983376 / 108398337  £202,626,000                6.50 per cent.  3 July 2024       100.125 per cent.                     N/A                                                                        N/A              Any and all
 2026 Notes                XS1523966197 / 152396619  £47,374,000                 8.00 per cent.  23 November 2026  To be determined as described herein  0.375 per cent. UK Treasury Gilt due 22 October 2026 (ISIN: GB00BNNGP668)  160 bps

 

Rationale for the Offers

The purpose of the Offers and the planned issuance of New Notes is, amongst
other things, to proactively manage the Company's expected redemption profile.
The Offers also provide Noteholders with the opportunity to sell their current
holdings in the Notes and to apply for priority in the allocation of the New
Notes, as more fully described in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Notes purchased by the Company pursuant to the relevant Offer(s) will be
cancelled and will not be re-issued or re-sold.

Purchase Prices and Accrued Interest

In respect of each Series, the Company will, on the Settlement Date, pay for
Notes of the relevant Series validly tendered and accepted by it for purchase
pursuant to the relevant Offer, a cash purchase price for such Notes (in
respect of such Series, the Purchase Price):

(a)        in respect of any 2024 Notes accepted for purchase pursuant
to the relevant Offer, equal to 100.125 per cent. of the nominal amount of
such 2024 Notes (the 2024 Notes Purchase Price); and

(b)        in respect of any 2026 Notes accepted for purchase pursuant
to the relevant Offer, to be determined at or around 12.00 noon (London time)
on 16 May 2024 (the 2026 Notes Pricing Time) in the manner described in the
Tender Offer Memorandum by reference to the annualised sum (such annualised
sum, the 2026 Notes Purchase Yield) of (i) a purchase spread of 160 bps (the
2026 Notes Purchase Spread) and (ii) the 2026 Notes Benchmark Security Rate.

The 2026 Notes Purchase Price will be determined in accordance with market
convention and expressed as a percentage of the nominal amount of the 2026
Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the relevant Offer (rounded to the
nearest 0.001 per cent., with 0.0005 per cent. rounded upwards), and is
intended to reflect a yield to maturity of the 2026 Notes on the Settlement
Date based on the 2026 Notes Purchase Yield. Specifically, the 2026 Notes
Purchase Price will equal (a) the value of all remaining payments of principal
and interest on the 2026 Notes up to and including the scheduled maturity date
of the 2026 Notes, discounted to the Settlement Date at a discount rate equal
to the 2026 Notes Purchase Yield, minus (b) Accrued Interest for such 2026
Notes.

The Company will also pay an Accrued Interest Payment in respect of Notes
accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offers.

Any and all Offers

If the Company decides to accept any validly tendered Notes for purchase
pursuant to the Offers, it will accept for purchase (subject to the
satisfaction or waiver of the New Financing Condition on or prior to the
Settlement Date) all Notes that are validly tendered pursuant to the Offers in
full with no pro rata scaling.

New Financing Condition

The Company announces today its intention to issue a new series of
sterling-denominated fixed rate tier 2 notes (the New Notes) under its
£3,000,000,000 Euro Medium Term Note Programme (the Programme), subject to
market conditions.

Whether the Company will purchase any Notes validly tendered in the Offers is
subject, without limitation, to the successful completion (in the sole
determination of the Company) of the issue of the New Notes (the New Financing
Condition).

Even if the New Financing Condition is satisfied (or waived), the Company is
under no obligation to accept for purchase any Notes tendered pursuant to the
relevant Offer(s). The acceptance for purchase by the Company of Notes validly
tendered pursuant to the relevant Offer(s) is at the sole discretion of the
Company, and tenders may be rejected by the Company for any reason.

Any investment decision to purchase any New Notes should be made solely on the
basis of the information contained in (i) the base prospectus dated 29
September 2023, published by the Company relating to the Programme, as
supplemented by the supplement dated 3 May 2024 (together, the Programme
Prospectus); and (ii) the final terms to be published by the Company relating
to the New Notes, and no reliance is to be placed on any other representations
other than those contained in the Programme Prospectus and the final terms to
be published by the Company relating to the New Notes.

For the avoidance of doubt, the ability to purchase any New Notes is subject
to all applicable securities laws and regulations in force in any relevant
jurisdiction (including the jurisdiction of the relevant Noteholder and the
selling restrictions set out in the Programme Prospectus). It is the sole
responsibility of each Noteholder to satisfy itself that it is eligible to
purchase the New Notes.

The New Notes have not been, and will not be, offered or sold in the United
States. Nothing in this announcement nor the Tender Offer Memorandum
constitutes an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy either the
New Notes in the United States or any other jurisdiction.  Securities may not
be offered, sold or delivered in the United States absent registration under,
or an exemption from the registration requirements of, the United States
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act).  The New Notes have
not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act or the
securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States and
may not be offered, sold or delivered, directly or indirectly, within the
United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons (as
defined in Regulation S of the Securities Act (each a U.S. Person)).

Compliance information for the New Notes:

UK MiFIR and MiFID professionals/ECPs-only / No PRIIPs or UK PRIIPs KID -
Manufacturer target market (Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 on markets in
financial instruments as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended (the EUWA) (the UK MiFIR) and
Directive 2014/65/EU, as amended (MiFID II)) is eligible counterparties and
professional clients only (all distribution channels). No key information
document (KID) under Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 or Regulation (EU) No
1286/2014 as it forms part of the domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue
of the EUWA has been or will be prepared as the New Notes are not available to
retail investors in EEA or United Kingdom.

See the Programme Prospectus and the final terms to be published relating to
the New Notes for further information.

No action has been or will be taken in any jurisdiction in relation to the New
Notes to permit a public offering of securities.

Allocation of the New Notes

When considering allocation of the New Notes, the Company may give preference
to those Noteholders that, prior to such allocation, have validly tendered or
have given a firm intention to any Dealer Manager that they intend to tender
their Notes for purchase pursuant to the relevant Offer(s). Therefore, a
Noteholder that wishes to subscribe for New Notes in addition to tendering its
existing Notes for purchase pursuant to the relevant Offer(s) may be eligible
to receive, at the sole and absolute discretion of the Company, priority in
the allocation of the New Notes, subject to the issue of the New Notes and
such Noteholder making a separate application for the purchase of such New
Notes to a Dealer Manager (in its capacity as a joint lead manager of the
issue of the New Notes) in accordance with the standard new issue procedures
of such Dealer Manager. Any such preference will, subject to the sole and
absolute discretion of the Company, be applicable up to the aggregate nominal
amount of Notes tendered by such Noteholder (or in respect of which such
Noteholder has indicated a firm intention to tender as described above)
pursuant to the relevant Offer(s). However, the Company is not obliged to
allocate any New Notes to a Noteholder that has validly tendered or indicated
a firm intention to tender its Notes for purchase pursuant to the relevant
Offer(s) and, if any such New Notes are allocated, the nominal amount thereof
may be less or more than the nominal amount of Notes tendered by such
Noteholder and accepted for purchase by the Company pursuant to the relevant
Offer(s). Any such allocation will also, among other factors, take into
account the minimum denomination of the New Notes (being £100,000).

All allocations of the New Notes, while being considered by the Company as set
out above, will be made in accordance with customary new issue allocation
processes and procedures in the sole and absolute discretion of the Company.
In the event that a Noteholder validly tenders Notes pursuant to the relevant
Offer(s), such Notes will remain subject to such tender and the conditions of
the relevant Offer(s) as set out in the Tender Offer Memorandum irrespective
of whether that Noteholder receives all, part or none of any allocation of New
Notes for which it has applied.

Noteholders should note that the pricing and allocation of the New Notes are
expected to take place prior to the Expiration Deadline for the Offers and any
Noteholder that wishes to subscribe for New Notes in addition to tendering
Notes for purchase pursuant to the relevant Offer(s) should therefore provide,
as soon as practicable, to any Dealer Manager any indications of a firm
intention to tender Notes for purchase pursuant to the relevant Offer(s) and
the quantum of Notes that it intends to tender.

General

The Offers begin on 8 May 2024 (the Launch Date) and will expire at 4.00 p.m.
(London Time) on 15 May 2024 (the Expiration Deadline), unless extended,
re-opened or terminated as provided in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

In order to be eligible to receive the relevant Purchase Price, Noteholders
must validly tender their Notes by the Expiration Deadline, by delivering, or
arranging to have delivered on their behalf, a valid Tender Instruction that
is received by the Tender Agent by the Expiration Deadline. The deadlines set
by any intermediary or clearing system will be earlier than the deadlines
specified above.

Tender Instructions will be irrevocable except in the limited circumstances
described in the Tender Offer Memorandum. Tender Instructions must be
submitted in respect of an aggregate nominal amount of at least the minimum
denomination in respect of such Notes (being £100,000 in respect of each
Series) and integral multiples of £1,000 thereafter.

Indicative Timetable for the Offers

 Events                                                                           Times and Dates

                                                                                  (all times are London Time)
 Launch Date                                                                      8 May 2024

 Offers announced and Tender Offer Memorandum available from the Tender Agent

 Notice of Offers published by RNS
 Expiration Deadline                                                              4.00 p.m. on 15 May 2024

 Deadline for receipt by the Tender Agent of all Tender Instructions.
 2026 Notes Pricing Time                                                          At or around 12.00 noon on 16 May 2024

 Determination of the 2026 Notes Benchmark Security Rate, the 2026 Notes
 Purchase Yield and the 2026 Notes Purchase Price.
 Announcement of Results and Pricing                                              As soon as reasonably practicable after the 2026 Notes Pricing Time on 16 May

                                                                                2024
 Announcement by the Company of whether (subject to satisfaction (or waiver) of
 the New Financing Condition on or prior to the Settlement Date) it accepts for
 purchase Notes validly tendered in the Offers and, if so, of the aggregate
 nominal amount of Notes of each Series so accepted, the 2026 Notes Benchmark
 Security Rate, the 2026 Notes Purchase Yield, the 2026 Notes Purchase Price,
 and the aggregate nominal amount of each Series that will remain outstanding
 after the Settlement Date.
 Settlement Date                                                                  Expected to be 17 May 2024

 Subject to the satisfaction (or waiver) of the New Financing Condition,
 payment of the relevant Purchase Price and the relevant Accrued Interest
 Payments in respect of the Notes accepted for purchase.

Subject to applicable law and as provided in the Tender Offer Memorandum, the
Company may, in its sole discretion, extend, re-open, amend, waive any
condition of or terminate any of the Offers at any time, and the above times
and dates are subject to the right of the Company to so extend, re-open, amend
and/or terminate any Offer.

Noteholders are advised to check with any bank, securities broker or other
intermediary through which they hold Notes when such intermediary would need
to receive instructions from a Noteholder in order for that Noteholder to be
able to participate in, or (in the limited circumstances in which revocation
is permitted) revoke their instruction to participate in, the Offers before
the deadlines specified above. The deadlines set by any such intermediary and
each Clearing System for the submission of Tender Instructions will be earlier
than the relevant deadlines specified above and in the Tender Offer
Memorandum.

Unless stated otherwise, announcements in connection with the Offers will be
made by the Company by (i) publication through RNS and (ii) delivery of
notices to the Clearing Systems for communication to Direct Participants. Such
announcements may also be found on the relevant Informa IGM Screen Insider
service and be made by the issue of a press release to a Notifying News
Service. Significant delays may be experienced in respect of notices delivered
to the Clearing Systems and Noteholders are urged to contact the Tender Agent
for the relevant announcements during the course of the Offers, the contact
details for which are set out below.

Further Information

Noteholders are advised to read carefully the Tender Offer Memorandum for full
details of, and information on the procedures for participating in, the
Offers.

Requests for information in relation to the Offers should be directed to:

J.P. Morgan Securities plc (Tel: +44 20 7134 2468; Attention: EMEA Liability
Management Group; Email: liability_management_EMEA@jpmorgan.com
(mailto:liability_management_EMEA@jpmorgan.com) ); Lloyds Bank Corporate
Markets plc (Tel: +44 20 7158 1726 / +44 20 7158 1719; Attention: Liability
Management; Email: lbcmliabilitymanagement@lloydsbanking.com
(mailto:lbcmliabilitymanagement@lloydsbanking.com) ); Merrill Lynch
International (Tel: +44 20 7996 5420; Attention: Liability Management Group;
Email: DG.LM-EMEA@bofa.com (mailto:DG.LM-EMEA@bofa.com) ); and Nomura
International plc (Tel: +44 20 7103 2410 / +44 20 7103 2454; Attention:
Liability Management Group; Email: liability.management@nomura.com
(mailto:liability.management@nomura.com) ) who are acting as Dealer Managers
in respect of the Offers.

Requests  for information in relation to the procedures for tendering Notes
in, and for any documents or materials relating to, the Offers should be
directed to:

Kroll Issuer Services Limited (Tel: +44 20 7704 0880; Attention: Owen Morris;
Email: pic@is.kroll.com (mailto:pic@is.kroll.com) ; Offer Website:
https://deals.is.kroll.com/pic (https://deals.is.kroll.com/pic) ) who  is
acting as Tender Agent in respect of the Offers.

This announcement is made by Pension Insurance Corporation plc and contains
information that qualified or may have qualified as inside information for the
purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms
part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (UK MAR), encompassing
information relating to the Offers described above. For the purposes of UK MAR
and the Implementing Technical Standards, this announcement is made by Louise
Inward, General Counsel at the Company.

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DISCLAIMER: This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender
Offer Memorandum. This announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum contain
important information which should be read carefully before any decision is
made with respect to the Offers. Any Noteholder who is in any doubt as to the
contents of this announcement and/or the Tender Offer Memorandum or the action
it should take, is recommended to seek its own financial and legal advice,
including as to any tax consequences, immediately from its broker, bank
manager, solicitor, accountant or other independent financial, tax or legal
adviser. Any individual or company whose Notes are held on its behalf by a
broker, dealer, bank, custodian, trust company or other nominee must contact
such entity if it wishes to tender such Notes in the relevant Offer(s). None
of the Company, the Dealer Managers or the Tender Agent or any director,
officer, employee, agent or affiliate of any such person has made or will make
any assessment of the merits and risks of the Offer(s) or of the impact of the
Offer(s) on the interests of the Noteholders either as a class or as
individuals, and none of them makes any recommendation whether Noteholders
should tender Notes in the relevant Offer(s).

Offer and Distribution Restrictions

The distribution of this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum in
certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession
this announcement and/or the Tender Offer Memorandum come(s) are required by
each of the Company, the Dealer Managers and the Tender Agent to inform
themselves about and to observe any such restrictions. Neither this
announcement nor the Tender Offer Memorandum constitutes an offer to buy or
the solicitation of an offer to sell Notes (and tenders of Notes in the
relevant Offer(s) will not be accepted from Noteholders) in any circumstances
in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. In those jurisdictions where
the securities, blue sky or other laws require either Offer to be made by a
licensed broker or dealer and any Dealer Manager or any of its affiliates is
such a licensed broker or dealer in any such jurisdiction, such Offer shall be
deemed to be made on behalf of the Company by such Dealer Manager or such
affiliate (as the case may be) in such jurisdiction.

No action has been or will be taken in any jurisdiction in relation to the New
Notes that would permit a public offering of securities. The minimum
denomination of the New Notes will be £100,000.

United States

The Offers are 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. This includes, but is not limited
to, facsimile transmission, electronic mail, telex, telephone, the internet
and other forms of electronic communication. The Notes may not be tendered in
the Offers by any such use, means, instrumentality or facility from or within
the United States or by persons located or resident in the United States.
Accordingly, copies of this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum and any
other documents or materials relating to the Offers are 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 any persons located or resident
in the United States.  Any purported tender of Notes in an 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 or 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.

Neither this announcement nor the Tender Offer Memorandum is an offer of
securities for sale in the United States or to U.S. Persons. Securities may
not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under, or an
exemption from the registration requirements of, the Securities Act. The New
Notes have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act or
the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States,
and may not be offered, sold or delivered, directly or indirectly, within the
United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. Persons.

Each holder of Notes participating in either Offer will represent that it is
not located in the United States and is not participating in such 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 such Offer from the United States. For the purposes of this and
the above two paragraphs, United States means 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 of America and the District of Columbia.

United Kingdom

Each of this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum has been issued by
Pension Insurance Corporation plc which is authorised and regulated by the
Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority.
This announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum are being distributed only
to existing Noteholders, and are only addressed to such existing Noteholders
in the United Kingdom where they would (if they were clients of the Company)
be per se professional clients or per se eligible counterparties of the
Company within the meaning of the FCA rules.  Neither this announcement nor
the Tender Offer Memorandum is addressed to or directed at any persons who
would be retail clients within the meaning of the FCA rules and any such
persons should not act or rely on it.  Recipients of this announcement and/or
the Tender Offer Memorandum should note that the Company is acting on its own
account in relation to the Offers and will not be responsible to any other
person for providing the protections which would be afforded to clients of the
Company or for providing advice in relation to the Offers.

In addition, the communication of this announcement, the Tender Offer
Memorandum 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.  The communication of such documents and/or materials as a financial
promotion is only being made to, and may only be acted upon by, those persons
in the United Kingdom falling within the definition of investment
professionals (as defined in Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and
Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the Financial
Promotion Order)) or persons who are within Article 43 of the Financial
Promotion Order or any other persons to whom it may otherwise lawfully be made
under the Financial Promotion Order.

Italy

None of the Offers, this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum or any
other document or materials relating to the Offers have been or will be
submitted to the clearance procedures of the Commissione Nazionale per le
Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) pursuant to Italian laws and regulations. Each
Offer is being carried out in Italy as an exempted offer 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. Accordingly,
Noteholders or beneficial owners of the Notes that are located in Italy can
tender Notes for purchase in the Offers through authorised 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. 20307 of 15 February 2018, as amended, and
Legislative Decree No. 385 of 1 September 1993, as amended) and in compliance
with any other applicable laws and regulations and with any 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.

France

The Offers are not being made, directly or indirectly, to the public in the
Republic of France (France). This announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum
and any other document or material relating to the Offers have only been and
shall only be distributed in France to qualified investors as defined in
Article 2(e) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, as amended.  Neither this
announcement nor the Tender Offer Memorandum have been or will be submitted
for clearance to or will be approved by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.

Belgium

The Offers are not being made, and will not be made or advertised, directly or
indirectly, to any individual in Belgium qualifying as a consumer within the
meaning of Article I.1, 2° of the Belgian Code of Economic Law, as amended
from time to time (a Belgian Consumer) and none of this announcement, the
Tender Offer Memorandum and any other documents or materials relating to the
Offers have been or shall be distributed, directly or indirectly, in Belgium
to Belgian Consumers.

 

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