Ukraine exchanges its bonds

    Headline: Ukraine exchanges its bonds Source: Euromoney Date: April 2000 Author: Michael Peterson Ukraine’s lesson in bond destruction Issuer: Ukraine Amount: e2.6 billion Type of issue: Exchange offer Launched: February 4 2000 Lead manager: ING Barings Here’s the challenge. Find the thousands of individual investors who bought the Republic of Ukraine’s retail-targeted bonds, […]

    Headline: Ukraine exchanges its bonds
Source: Euromoney
Date: April 2000
Author: Michael Peterson

Ukraine’s lesson in bond destruction

Issuer: Ukraine

Amount: e2.6 billion

Type of issue: Exchange offer

Launched: February 4 2000

Lead manager: ING Barings


Here’s the challenge. Find the thousands of individual investors who bought the Republic of Ukraine’s retail-targeted bonds, tell them Ukraine can’t keep up the payments and persuade at least 85% of them to accept a new, less onerous, bond instead. That was the task facing lead manager ING Barings – with syndicate members Credit Suisse First Boston, Commerzbank and Salomon Smith Barney – when the east European sovereign launched an exchange offer for all its outstanding international issues.

















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