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Bendigo and Adelaide Bank completes $450m bookbuild 

Allens has advised Bendigo and Adelaide Bank on its capital notes offering.

user iconTony Zhang 04 December 2020 Big Law
Robert Pick and Julian Donnan
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Firm: Allens (Bendigo and Adelaide Bank).

Deal: Allens has advised Bendigo and Adelaide Bank on its $450 million offer of capital notes, which will qualify as additional tier 1 capital for the bank. 

The offer is being undertaken in conjunction with the resale of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank’s convertible preference shares 2 (CPS2) that were issued in 2014.

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Value: $450 million.

Area: Banking and finance, capital markets.

Key players: The corporate team from Allens was led by partners Robert Pick and Julian Donnan, co-heads of the firm’s capital markets team, and the tax team was led by partner Craig Milner. 

Deal significance: The capital notes offer includes an institutional offer, a broker firm offer, a reinvestment offer for the CPS2 shareholders and a securityholder offer.

The transaction will support the bank’s balance sheet growth and ensure the bank continues to maintain strong regulatory capital levels. The completion of the bookbuild indicated a strong level of demand for the offer.

Allens acted as both legal and taxation advisers to Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, as it did for the bank’s previous issues of additional tier 1 securities in 2014 (CPS2), 2015 (CPS3) and 2017 (CPS4). Allens’ role included assisting the bank to obtain all necessary approvals from APRA, the ASX and the ATO.

“Allens has greatly appreciated the opportunity to partner with Bendigo and Adelaide Bank again, continuing our longstanding relationship with the Bank in bringing its first issue of Capital Notes to the market,” Mr Pick said.

“We have really enjoyed working closely with the Bank’s senior management team to support the Bank’s capital management strategy through this important transaction.”

“The Capital Notes offer has been well received by the market with strong support under the Bookbuild from existing CPS2 holders as well as new investors. This allowed the Bank to increase the indicative offer size and set the margin at the bottom of the indicative range,” Mr Donnan added.

The offer opened on 5 November 2020 and capital notes are expected to commence trading on ASX on 1 December 2020.

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