from AXA (EPA:CS)
AXA announces the placement of Euro 750 million senior notes due 2034
Paris, May 29, 2024
AXA announces the placement of Euro 750 million senior notes due 2034
ABOUT THE AXA GROUP The AXA Group is a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management, with 147,000 employees serving 94 million clients in 50 countries. In 2023, IFRS17 revenues amounted to Euro 102.7 billion and IFRS17 underlying earnings amounted to Euro 7.6 billion. AXA had Euro 946 billion in assets under management, including assets managed on behalf of third parties, as of December 31, 2023. The AXA ordinary share is listed on compartment A of Euronext Paris under the ticker symbol CS (ISN FR 0000120628 – Bloomberg: CS FP – Reuters: AXAF.PA). AXA’s American Depository Share is also quoted on the OTC QX platform under the ticker symbol AXAHY. The AXA Group is included in the main international SRI indexes, such as Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and FTSE4GOOD. It is a founding member of the UN Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Principles for Sustainable Insurance and a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. This press release and the regulated information made public by AXA pursuant to article L. 451-1-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code and articles 222-1 et seq. of the Autorité des marchés financiers’ General Regulation are available on the AXA Group website (axa.com). THIS PRESS RELEASE IS AVAILABLE ON THE AXA GROUP WEBSITE axa.com | FOR MORE INFORMATION: Investor Relations: +33.1.40.75.48.42 anu.venkataraman@axa.com remi.dousteyssier@axa.com mikael.malaganne@axa.com anna.alemaskina@axa.com michael.safi@axa.com abhishek.sharma@axa.com pamela.vallon@axa.com Individual Shareholder Relations: +33.1.40.75.48.43
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This press release is an advertisement and not a prospectus for the purposes of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of June 14, 2017 (as amended, the “Prospectus Regulation”) and Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/979 of March 14, 2019, as amended. Investors in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) who wish to obtain information on the terms and conditions of the Notes, and determine whether or not they may, and wish to, subscribe thereto are urged to read, and refer exclusively to, the prospectus to be submitted by AXA SA for approval to the Luxembourg Financial Markets Authority (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier) (the “CSSF”), before making an investment decision in order to fully understand the potential risks and rewards associated with the decision to invest in these securities. Such prospectus will be published on AXA’s website (www.axa.com, Section “Investors”, sub-section “Legal Information & Financing”, pages “Listed Notes (EMTN)” or “Listed Notes (other)”) and on the website of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (www.bourse.lu). The approval of this prospectus by the CSSF should not be understood as an endorsement of the securities offered or admitted to trading on a regulated market.
The Notes referred to herein are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to, and no action has been or will be undertaken to offer, sell or otherwise make available any Notes, to any retail investor in the EEA. For the purposes of this provision: (a) “retail investor” means a person who is one (or more) of the following: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, “MiFID II”); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97, as amended, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii) not a “qualified investor” as defined in the Prospectus Regulation; and (b) the expression “offer” includes the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe for the Notes, as applicable. Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No. 1286/2014 (as amended, the “PRIIPs Regulation”) for offering or selling the Notes, or otherwise making them available, to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation.
This press release is not a prospectus within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (the “UK Prospectus
Regulation”) and has not been approved, filed or reviewed by any regulatory authority of the United Kingdom (“UK”). This press release has not been approved by an authorized person for the purposes of Section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended (the “FSMA”). Accordingly, this press release is not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, the general public in the United Kingdom. The communication of this press release is exempt from the restriction on financial promotions under Section 21 of the FSMA on the basis that it is only directed at and may only be communicated to (1) investment professionals as defined in Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (as amended) (the “FPO”), (2) high net worth companies, and other persons to whom it may lawfully be communicated, falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the FPO, and (3) persons outside the United Kingdom (together being referred to as
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“relevant persons”), and must not be acted on or relied upon by persons other than relevant persons. Any investment activity referred to in this press release is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons.
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The Notes referred to herein are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to, and no action has been or will be undertaken to offer, sell or otherwise make available any Notes, to any retail investor in the UK. For the purposes of this provision a “retail investor” means a person who is one (or more) of the following: (i) a retail client as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (the “EUWA”); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the FSMA and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement Directive (EU) 2016/97, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA; or (iii) not a “qualified investor” as defined in the UK Prospectus Regulation. Consequently no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (as amended, the “UK PRIIPs Regulation”) for offering or selling the Notes, or otherwise making them available, to retail investors in the UK has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the UK may be unlawful under the UK PRIIPs Regulation.
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