Vattenfall successfully launched a EUR 500m 20-year bond

Vattenfall successfully launched a EUR 500m 20-year bond Vattenfall AB, through its wholly owned subsidiary Vattenfall Treasury AB, today launched an EUR 500 million 20 year Eurobond issue. This constitutes Vattenfall's longest maturity public bond issue to date. The issue enjoyed strong demand from a wide range of European investors. Joint bookrunners were Barclays Capital, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, and Morgan Stanley. "The market environment provided us with an attractive opportunity to extend the maturity profile of our funding," said Vattenfall's CFO Matts Ekman. From Vattenfall's Press Office, telephone: +46 8 739 50 10. For more information, please contact: Anders Lidefelt, President Vattenfall Treasury AB, telephone +46 8 739 65 13. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2004/04/16/20040420BIT20300/wkr0006.pdf