Fabege via jointly owned company issues new real estate bond of SEK 1,250m against collateral

Visio Exploatering AB (“Visio”), a company owned jointly by Fabege and Peab, has today, via Svensk FastighetsFinansiering II AB (SFFII) as the formal loan recipient, issued a bond loan in the amount of SEK 1,250m. The bond loan is to be used for onward lending to Visio, which will in turn use the proceeds, among other purposes, to invest in the development of Arenastaden. The bond, for which Fabege and Peab will stand surety and for which collateral will be placed by the Visio Exploatering group, has a term of five years. The loan will carry variable interest at a rate of STIBOR 3m + 3.50 percentage points. SFFII will apply for listing of the bonds on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. Hansan AB is a service agent for SFFII, whereby reports and other such documentation will be published on Hansan’s website www.hansan.se.

Carnegie Investment Bank and DNB Markets have served as financial advisers and arrangers in connection with the issuance.

Fabege AB (publ)

For further information, please contact:
Christian Hermelin, CEO, phone 46 (0)8 555 148 25, 46 (0)73 387 18 25
Åsa Bergström, Deputy CEO and CFO, phone 46 (0)8 555 148 29, 46 (0)70 666 13 80

This constitutes information that Fabege AB (publ) may be legally obliged to publish under the Securities Market Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was released for publication at 3.00 pm CET on 18 December 2012.

Fabege AB (publ) is one of Sweden’s leading property companies focusing mainly on letting and managing office premises and property development. The carrying amount of the company’s property portfolio is approximately SEK 31.6bn. The portfolio is concentrated in the Stockholm region and has an annualised rental value of SEK 2.3bn and a lettable area of 1.2m sqm. Fabege’s shares are listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm, Large Cap segment.

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