Volvo Car AB SEK 2,500,000,000 Senior Floating Rate Notes Due 2022
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OFFERING MEMORANDUM NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES 11MAY201613510798 Volvo Car AB SEK 2,500,000,000 Senior Floating Rate Notes due 2022 SEK 500,000,000 21⁄2% Senior Fixed Rate Notes due 2022 Volvo Car AB, a Swedish public limited liability company (the ‘‘Issuer’’), is offering SEK 2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of its senior floating rate notes due 2022 (the ‘‘Senior Floating Rate Notes’’) and SEK 0.5 billion aggregate principal amount of its 21⁄2% senior fixed rate notes due 2022 (the ‘‘Senior Fixed Rate Notes’’ and, together with the Senior Floating Rate Notes, the ‘‘Notes’’). Interest on the Senior Floating Rate Notes will be payable quarterly in arrears, equal to the three-month STIBOR plus 2.35% per annum, reset quarterly and subject to a floor of 0.0%, on 7 March, 7 June, 7 September and 7 December, commencing 7 March 2017. Interest on the Senior Fixed Rate Notes will be payable annually on 7 March, commencing 7 March 2017. The Senior Floating Rate Notes will mature on 7 March 2022. The Senior Fixed Rate Notes will mature on 7 March 2022. Some or all of the Notes may be redeemed by paying 100% of the principal amount of such Notes plus a ‘‘make-whole’’ premium. In addition, up to 40% of the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Floating Rate Notes and up to 40% of the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Fixed Rate Notes, respectively, may be redeemed with the net proceeds of certain equity offerings at the respective redemption prices set forth in this offering memorandum. At any time on or after 7 December 2021 (i.e., the date that is three months prior to maturity), some or all of the Notes may be redeemed at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of Notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of redemption. Upon the occurrence of certain change of control events, each holder of the Notes may require the Issuer to repurchase all or a portion of its respective Notes at a redemption price equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest and additional amounts, if any. In the event of certain developments affecting taxation, the Issuer may redeem all, but not less than all, of the Notes, as applicable. The Notes will be the Issuer’s senior obligations and will rank pari passu in right of payment with all other existing and future senior debt of the Issuer that is not expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes. The Notes will be senior in right of payment to all existing and future indebtedness of the Issuer that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes. The Notes will be guaranteed (the ‘‘Guarantee’’) on a senior unsecured basis by the Issuer’s subsidiary, Volvo Car Corporation (the ‘‘Guarantor’’). The Guarantee will rank pari passu in right of payment with all of the existing and future indebtedness of the Guarantor that is not expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Guarantee. The Guarantee will rank senior in right of payment to all existing and future indebtedness of the Guarantor that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Guarantee. The Notes and the Guarantee will be effectively subordinated to all of the Issuer’s and the Guarantor’s future secured debt to the extent of the value of the assets securing such debt. The Notes and the Guarantee will be structurally subordinated to all existing and future obligations and other liabilities of the Issuer’s other subsidiaries that do not guarantee the Notes. Application has been made to list the Notes on the Official List of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and to be admitted to trading on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange’s Euro MTF Market.