Air France-KLM Pricing and approval of the prospectus
Air France-KLM has announced a capital increase through a public offering, setting the subscription price at €4.84 per new share. This price reflects a 9.98% discount on the average share price over the last three trading days. The capital increase aims to raise approximately €901 million, potentially up to €1,036 million if the increase option is fully exercised. The subscription period for existing shareholders starts today, April 13, 2021 and lasts until April 15, 2021. The company plans to issue up to 213,999,999 new shares.
- Capital increase targets approximately €901 million, providing essential funding.
- Subscription price set at €4.84 per share, reflecting a discount, potentially attractive for investors.
- Potential dilution of existing shareholders due to the issuance of up to 213,999,999 new shares.
- Market perception may view the need for capital increase as a sign of financial instability.
Roissy, 13 April 2021
Air France-KLM announces the subscription price of its capital increase without shareholders’ preferential subscription rights by way of a public offering and with a 3-day priority subscription period on an irreducible basis and, partially, on a reducible basis granted to existing shareholders for an amount of approximately
Approval of the prospectus by the AMF
Beginning of the priority subscription period and of the public offering
Further to the press release dated 12 April 2021 announcing the launch of a capital increase and the beginning of the private placement, Air France-KLM (the “Company”) announces today that the subscription price has been set at
The Capital Increase will result in the issuance of 186,086,956 new shares, which may be increased to 213,999,999 new shares in the event of the exercise in full of the Increase Option (“New Shares”), corresponding to a maximum of
Partial exercise of the increase option
Given the orders received in the context of the private placement, the Company intends to exercise at least
The final decision on the exercise of this increase option will be taken at the end of the centralization period, on 19 April 2021.
The Capital Increase will include:
- a 3-day priority subscription period on an irreducible and, partially, reducible basis that will be granted to the Company’s existing shareholders (as of the record date of 12 April 2021), which will run from 13 April 2021 to 15 April 2021 (included) at 5:00pm (Paris time);
- a public offering in France for retail investors principally, which will run from 13 April 2021 until 15 April 2021 (inclusive) at 5:00pm (Paris time) (the “Public Offering”); and
- a private placement to institutional investors, launched on 12 April 2021 and closed on the same day (the “Private Placement”).
Orders placed in the Public Offering and Private Placement might be subject to reduction depending on the results of the priority subscriptions on an irreducible basis and reducible basis received during the priority subscription period. It is specified that subscriptions made by shareholders on a reducible basis will be allocated in proportion to their requests on an irreducible basis (within the limit of 5 times their demand on a reducible basis) and, in any case, within the limit of their demand.
Availability of the prospectus
The prospectus (the “Prospectus”), comprising (i) the universal registration document of the Company filed with the AMF on 7 April 2021 under number D.21-0270 (the “Universal Registration Document and (ii) a securities note (including a summary of the prospectus) (the “Securities Note”) which received approval under number 21-102 dated 12 April 2021, is available on the Company’s website (www. airfranceklm.com) and on the AMF’s website (www.amf-france.org). Copies of the Prospectus will be made available free of charge at the Company’s headquarters, located at, 2, rue Robert Esnault-Pelterie - 75007 Paris, France.
Potential investors are advised to consider carefully the risk factors described in chapter 3.1 “Risk factors” of the Universal Registration Document and chapter 2 “Risk factors” of the Securities Note. Should all or any part of these risk factors materialize, the Company’s and the group’s businesses, financials, results or ability to reach its guidance may be negatively affected.
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