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BRERA SEC S.R.L. (incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the Republic of Italy) Euro 3,750,000,000 Class A Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes due October 2070 Issue Price: 100 per cent Euro 1,529,719,000 Class B Asset Backed Fixed Rate and Additional Return Notes due October 2070 Issue Price: 100 per cent Application has been made to the Commission de surveillance du secteur financier (“CSSF”), which is the competent authority in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the purposes of Directive 2003/71/EC (as subsequently amended, the “Prospectus Directive”) and relevant implementing measures in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, for approval of this Prospectus in relation to the Euro 3,750,000,000 Class A Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes due October 2070 (the “Class A Notes” or the “Senior Notes”) of Brera Sec S.r.l., a società a responsabilità limitata organised under the laws of the Republic of Italy. This document constitutes a “prospectus” for the purpose of article 5.3 of the Prospectus Directive and article 8 of the Luxembourg law on prospectuses for securities of 10 July 2005 (as amended and supplemented from time to time, the “Luxembourg Law on Prospectus for Securities”) implementing the Prospectus Directive in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and a “prospetto informativo” for the purposes of article 2, sub-section 3 of Italian law number 130 of 30 April 1999, as amended from time to time. Application has been made to the Luxembourg stock exchange (the “Luxembourg Stock Exchange”) for the Senior Notes to be admitted to the official list of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and to trading on the Regulated Market “Bourse de Luxembourg” which is a regulated market for the purposes of the Market in Financial Instruments Directive 2014/65/EU. In connection with the issue of the Senior Notes, the Issuer will also issue the Euro 1,529,719,000 Class B Asset Backed Fixed Rate and Additional Return Notes due October 2070 (the “Class B Notes” or the “Junior Notes” and, together with the Senior Notes, the “Notes”). No application has been made to list the Junior Notes on any stock exchange. The Junior Notes are not being offered pursuant to this Prospectus, nor will this Prospectus be approved by the CSSF in relation to the Junior Notes. By approving this Prospectus, the CSSF does not give any undertaking as to the economic and financial soundness of the operation or the quality or solvency of the Issuer, consistently with the provisions of article 7, sub-section 7, of the Luxembourg Law on Prospectus for Securities. The Notes will be issued on 14 December 2018 (the “Issue Date”). The net proceeds of the offering of the Notes will be applied by the Issuer on the Issue Date to fund the purchase of portfolios of monetary claims and connected rights arising under secured loans and unsecured loans granted to small and medium-sized enterprises (respectively, the “Portfolios” and the “Receivables”) entered into between Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. (“ISP”), Banco di Napoli S.p.A. (before the merger into ISP occurred on 26 November 2018) (“BdN”), Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna S.p.A. (“Carisbo”) and Banca CR Firenze S.p.A. (“CR Firenze” and, together with ISP (also as successor of BdN, further to the merger indicated above) and Carisbo, the “Originators”) and the relevant Debtors and in any case in accordance with the provisions contained in the Transaction Documents and as described in the section headed “Use of Proceeds”. The Portfolios have been purchased by the Issuer under the terms of a receivables purchase agreement entered into between the Issuer and each of the Originators pursuant to the Securitisation Law on 29 October 2018 (the “Receivables Purchase Agreement”). The Portfolio will constitute the principal source of funds available to the Issuer for the payment of interest and Variable Return (if any) and the repayment of principal on the Notes By operation of Italian Law and the Transaction Documents, the Issuer’s right, title and interest in and to the Portfolios and the other Segregated Assets (as defined in the Conditions) are segregated from all other assets of the Issuer (including any other portfolios of receivables purchased by the Issuer pursuant to the Securitisation Law) and any cash-flow deriving therefrom (to the extent identifiable and for so long as such cash flows are credited to one of the Issuer’s Accounts under this Transaction and not commingled with other sums) will only be available, both prior to and following a winding up of the Issuer, to satisfy the obligations of the Issuer to the Noteholders and to pay any cost, fee and expense payable to the Other Issuer Creditors (as defined in the Conditions) and to any third party creditor of the Issuer in respect of any cost, fee and expense payable by the Issuer to such third party creditor in relation to the securitisation of the Portfolios (the “Securitisation”). Amounts derived from the Portfolios will not be available to any such creditors of the Issuer in respect of any other amounts owed to it or to any other creditor of the Issuer. The Noteholders and the Other Issuer Creditors will agree that the Issuer Available Funds (as defined in the Conditions) will be applied by the Issuer in accordance with the applicable priority of payments of the Issuer Available Funds set forth in Condition 6 (Priority of Payments) and the Intercreditor Agreement (the “Priority of Payments”). Interest on the Notes will accrue on a daily basis and will be payable on 30 April 2019 (the “First Payment Date”) and thereafter quarterly in arrears in Euro in accordance with the applicable Priority of Payments, on the 30th calendar day of January, April, July and October (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately succeeding Business Day) (each such dates, a “Payment Date”). The Senior Notes will bear interest on their Principal Outstanding Amount from and including the Issue Date. The rate of interest applicable for each period commencing on (and including) a Payment Date and ending on (but excluding) the next succeeding Payment Date (each, an “Interest Period”) (provided that the first Interest Period shall commence on (and include) the Issue Date and end on (but exclude) the First Payment Date) in respect of the Senior Notes (the “Senior Notes Interest Rate”) will be the Euribor for 3 month (the “Three Month Euribor”) (or, in the case of the First Interest Period, the rate per annum obtained by linear interpolation of the Euribor for 3 months and 6 months), as determined and defined in accordance with Condition 7 (Interest) plus a margin equal to 0.85% per annum (the “Margin”), provided that the Interest Rate (being the Three Month Euribor plus the Margin) applicable on each of the Senior Notes shall not be higher than 3% per annum and shall not be negative. The Junior Notes will bear interest on their Principal Outstanding Amount from and including the Issue Date at the rate of 0.50% per annum (the “Junior Notes Interest Rate” and, together with the Senior Notes Interest Rate, the “Interest Rates”). An Additional Return may or may not be payable on the Junior Notes on each Payment Date in accordance with the Conditions. The Senior Notes are expected, on issue, to be rated “A (High) (sf)” by DBRS Ratings Limited (“DBRS”) and “A1(sf)” by Moody’s Investors Service España, S.A. (“Moody’s”). A credit rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be subject to suspension, revision or withdrawal at any time by the assigning rating organisation. As of the date hereof, each of DBRS and Moody’s is established in the European Union and is registered under Regulation (EC) number 1060/2009, as amended by Regulation (EC) number 513/2011 and Regulation (EC) number 462/2013 (the “CRA Regulation”), as it appears from the most updated list published by the European Securities and Markets Authority on the webpage http://www.esma.europa.eu/page/List-registered-and-certified-CRAs (for the avoidance of doubt, such website does not form part of this Prospectus). As at the date of this Prospectus, payments of interest, Additional Return and other proceeds in respect of the Notes may be subject to withholding or deduction for or on account of Italian tax, in accordance with Italian Legislative Decree number 239 of 1 April 1996 (“Decree number 239”), as amended and supplemented from time to time, and any related regulations. Upon the occurrence of any withholding or deduction for or on account of tax from any payments under the Notes, neither the Issuer nor any other person shall have any obligation to pay any additional amount(s) to any holder of Notes. For further details see the section entitled “Taxation in the Republic of Italy”. The Notes will be direct, secured and limited recourse obligations solely of the Issuer. In particular, the Notes will not be obligations or responsibilities of, or guaranteed by, any of the Other Issuer Creditors (as defined below). Furthermore, none of such persons accepts any liability whatsoever in respect of any failure by the Issuer to make payment of any amount due on the Notes. As of the Issue Date, the Notes will be held in dematerialised form on behalf of the beneficial owners, until redemption or cancellation thereof, by Monte Titoli for the account of the relevant Monte Titoli Account Holders (being any authorised financial intermediary institution entitled to hold accounts on behalf of their customers with Monte Titoli, including any depository banks appointed by Euroclear and Clearstream).