1 PROSPECTUS DATED 30 JUNE 2020 Pursuant To
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PROSPECTUS DATED 30 JUNE 2020 pursuant to article 2, paragraph 3, of Italian Law no. 130 of 30 April 1999 LANTERNA FINANCE S.R.L. (incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the Republic of Italy) Euro 205,000,000 Class A1 Asset Backed Notes due January 2060 Euro 20,000,000 Class A2 Asset Backed Notes due January 2060 Euro 137,500,000 Class B Asset Backed Notes due January 2060 Issue Price: 100.00% This prospectus (the "Prospectus") contains information relating to the issue by Lanterna Finance S.r.l., a limited liability company (società a responsabilità limitata) incorporated pursuant to Italian Law no. 130 of 30 April 1999 (hereafter the "Securitisation Law"), whose registered office is located in Genoa, at Via Cassa di Risparmio, No. 15, Italy, fiscal code and enrolment with the companies register of Genoa number 08703420961 and registered in the register of special purpose vehicles held by the Bank of Italy in accordance with the regulation of the Bank of Italy dated 7 June 2017 (Disposizioni di vigilanza in materia di obblighi informativi e statistici delle società veicolo coinvolte in operazioni di cartolarizzazione) (the "Issuer") of Euro 205,000,000 Class A1 Asset Backed Notes due January 2060 (the "Class A1 Notes"), Euro 20,000,000 Class A2 Asset Backed Notes due January 2060 (the "Class A2 Notes" and, together with the Class A1 Notes, the "Senior Notes" or the "Class A Notes") and Euro 137,500,000 Class B Asset Backed Notes due January 2060 (the "Class B Notes" or the "Junior Notes" and, together with the Class A Notes, the "Notes"). This document constitutes a “prospetto informativo” for the Notes for the purposes of Article 2, paragraph 3 of the Securitisation Law. This Prospectus constitutes also the admission document of the Senior Notes for the admission to trading on the professional segment ("ExtraMOT PRO") of the multilateral trading facility "ExtraMOT", which is a multilateral system for the purposes of the Market and Financial Instruments Directive (Directive 2014/65/EC (the “MIFID II”)), managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A. ("Borsa Italiana"). The Junior Notes are not being offered pursuant to this Prospectus and no application has been made to list the Junior Notes on any stock exchange. Neither the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (“CONSOB”) or Borsa Italiana have examined or approved the content of this Prospectus. The Notes will be issued on 30 June 2020 (the "Issue Date") by the Issuer in the context of a securitisation of receivables arising out of unsecured loan agreements (the "Unsecured Loan Agreements") and mortgage loan agreements (the "Mortgage Loan Agreements", together with the Unsecured Loan Agreements, the "Loan Agreements") owned by Banca Carige S.p.A. ("Banca Carige") or Banca del Monte di Lucca S.p.A. ("BML" and, together with Banca Carige, the "Originators" and each an "Originator") with their clients, classified as small and medium enterprises (the "Transaction"). On 9 June 2020 the Issuer purchased (i) from Banca Carige, the Banca Carige's Receivables and (ii) from BML, the BML's Receivables (each an "Individual Portfolio", and collectively the "Portfolio"), pursuant to the Transfer Agreement. The Purchase Price of the Portfolio will be financed by the Issuer through the issuance of the Notes. The principal source of payment of interest and repayment of principal on the Notes, as well as payment of the Premium (if any) on the Junior Notes, will be the Collections received or recovered in respect of the Portfolio. By virtue of the operation of article 3 of the Securitisation Law and the Transaction Documents, the Issuer's right, title and interest in and to the Portfolio, any claim of the Issuer which has arisen in the context of the Transaction, their collections and the financial assets purchased using those fund will be segregated from all other assets of the Issuer (including any other portfolio of receivables purchased by the Issuer pursuant to the Securitisation Law in the context of any other securitisation transaction) and, therefore, any cash- flow deriving therefrom (to the extent identifiable) will only be available, both prior to and following a winding up of the Issuer (whether in the context of an Insolvency Proceeding or otherwise) to satisfy the obligations of the Issuer to the Noteholders, the Other Issuer Creditors and any other creditors of the Issuer in respect of any fees, costs and expenses in relation to the Transaction. Interest on the Notes will accrue on a daily basis and will be payable quarterly in arrears in Euro on each Payment Date, being the 28th day of January, April, July and October of each year or, if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately following Business Day, provided that the first Payment Date will fall on 28 October 2020. In accordance with Condition 5 (Interest), the rate of interest applicable to the Notes for each Interest Period, including the Initial Interest Period, shall be: (i) with respect to the Senior Notes, the aggregate of three months Euribor (except in respect of the initial Interest Period where it shall be the rate per annum obtained by linear interpolation of the Euribor for 3 and 6 months deposits in Euro), plus the following margins: (a) in relation to the Class A1 Notes, 1% per annum; (b) in relation to the Class A2 Notes, 2.5% per annum, provided that the Rate of Interest so determined in relation to the Senior Notes shall not be lower than 0 and, with respect to the Class A1 Notes only, shall not be higher than 3.50%; and (ii) with respect to the Junior Notes, the rate equal to 3% per annum. 1 The Class A1 Notes are expected, on issue, to be rated “A (high) (sf)” by DBRS Ratings GmbH (“DBRS”) and “AA- (sf)” by S&P Global Ratings Europe Limited (“S&P” and, together with DBRS, the “Rating Agencies”) and the Class A2 Notes are expected, on issue, to be rated “BBB (high) (sf)” by DBRS and “A (sf)” by S&P. It is not expected that the Junior Notes will be assigned a credit rating. As at the date of this Prospectus, each of the Rating Agencies is established in the European Union and is registered in accordance with the Regulation (EC) No. 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on credit rating agencies, as amended from time to time (the “CRA Regulation”), as evidenced in the latest update of the list of credit rating agencies registered in accordance with the CRA Regulation published by ESMA on its website (currently located at the following website address http://www.esma.europa.eu/page/List-registered-and-certified-CRAs, for the avoidance of doubt, such website does not constitute part of this Prospectus). 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. The Notes will be 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, the Arranger or the Noteholders. 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 issued in bearer form and 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. Monte Titoli shall act as depositary for Euroclear and Clearstream. The Notes will at all times be in book entry form and title to the Notes will be evidenced by book-entries in accordance with the provisions of article 83-bis and following of the Legislative Decree No. 58 dated 24 February 1998, as amended (the "Consolidated Financial Act") and the Regulation of 13 August 2018 jointly issued by the Bank of Italy and CONSOB (as subsequently amended). No physical document of title will be issued in respect of the Notes. Before the Final Maturity Date, the Notes will be subject to mandatory and/or optional redemption in whole or in part in certain circumstances (as set out in Condition 6 (Redemption, Purchase and Cancellation)). Unless previously redeemed in full or cancelled in accordance with the Conditions, the Notes will be redeemed on the Final Maturity Date, being the Payment Date falling in January 2060. Each of Banca Carige and BML, in their capacity as Originators, will retain on an on-going basis for the entire life of the Transaction, a material net economic interest of not less than 5% in the Transaction (calculated for each Originator with respect to the Receivables comprised in the relevant Individual Portfolio pursuant to article 3(2) of the Regulatory Technical Standards on risk retention requirements) as required by Article 6(1) of the Regulation (EU) No. 2017/2402 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2017 laying down a general framework for securitisation and creating a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation, and amending Directives 2009/65/EC, 2009/138/EC and 2011/61/EU and Regulations (EC) No 1060/2009 and (EU) No 648/2012 (the “Securitisation Regulation”) and the relevant applicable Regulatory Technical Standards, in accordance with Article 6(3)(d) of the Securitisation Regulation (which does not take into account any corresponding national measures). As at the Issue Date, the Originators will meet this obligation by retaining an interest that constitute an interest in the first-loss tranche, being the Junior Notes, as required by Article 6(3)(d) of the Securitisation Regulation.