Ramsay Santé tops up its collateral trust, making it one of the largest (€186m) on the French market and the first to be l...
28 Giugno 2021 - 8:30AM
Ramsay Santé tops up its collateral trust, making it one of the
largest (€186m) on the French market and the first to be linked to
ESG criteria.
Paris, June
28, 2021
Ramsay Santé
tops up its
collateral trust
(created in
2018), making it one of
the largest (€186
m) on the French market
and the first to
be linked to ESG
criteria.
After
renegotiating its
syndicated debt this April with
a TLB
indexed to the company’s
ESG performance
(see press
release:
https://ramsaysante.fr/sites/default/files/pdf/cp-2021-04-22-ramsay-sante-refinancement-dette-syndiquee.pdf),
Ramsay Santé, one of the leaders
of the private hospitalisation
and primary care in Europe,
is now
continuing its
refinancing and sustainable commitment
drive with this second financial instrument indexed to
environmental objectives.
Immobilière de
Santé, the main holding company for the
Ramsay Santé group’s long-term
investments in securities and/or real-estate assets, signed a
contract for an additional €98m loan. Arranged by
Natixis (advised by CMS Francis
Lefebvre Avocats), the transaction was
supported by a pool of lenders comprising different
Groupe BPCE
entities, La Banque
Postale and
BPIFRANCE.
This long-term financing, geared to funding the
general needs of Immobilière de
Santé and the Ramsay
Santé group, is backed by a
collateral trust* carrying the
shares of real-estate subsidiaries that own the buildings of three
private hospitals located in the Ile-de-France region, and for
which Natixis is the trustee: Hôpital Privé
d’Antony , Hôpital Privé des Peupliers and Hôpital Privé Marne
Chantereine. These three establishments were among the most
highly-active private hospitals during the different Covid-19 waves
in 2020-21.
For Ramsay
Santé, the topping-up of this
real-estate financing vehicle is fully consistent with the group’s
growth strategy in two
respects:
- It furthers the group’s real-estate
strategy, while enhancing the correlation between the assets and
liabilities on its balance sheet, while extending the average
duration of debt and also lowering the average rate of
interest.
- It is consistent with the group’s
new ESR strategy and its ambitious environmental responsibility
component (see
https://ramsaysante.fr/sites/all/fullpage/yeswecare-458942523/index.html
).
This collateral
trust is the
first on the market to be
sustainability-linked:
its interest rate is linked according to a bonus/malus system that
depends on the degree to which the buildings concerned reach annual
greenhouse-gas reduction emission targets (scope 1 & 2) over
the duration of the financing.
- This financing forms part of a wider approach by the group to
issue financial instruments linked to ESG criteria
(Sustainability-Linked Financing), as detailed in the
Sustainability-Linked Framework document coordinated by Natixis and
Crédit Agricole CIB
(https://www.ramsaysante.eu/sites/default/files/pdf/sustainability-linked-financing-framework-ramsay-sante-2021-april.pdf).
V.E. issued an opinion confirming the Framework’s alignment with
the Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles and the
Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles published in 2020 by the
International Capital Market Association and the Loan Market
Association, respectively
(https://www.ramsaysante.eu/sites/default/files/pdf/20210503_slb_spo_ramsay_sante.pdf).
*A trust or fiduciary contract enables a person
referred to as “the settlor” to transfer all types of existing
or future assets into a “trust estate”, which is managed by a third
party, “the trustee”, independently of its own assets, for the
benefit of a third person, “the beneficiary”, over a determinate
period.In a collateral trust (fiducie-sûreté), the assets
transferred into a trust are assigned to a collateral
financing.
Relations
Investisseurs/Analystes Relations
Presse Ramsay SantéArnaud
Jeudy Caroline
DesaegherTél. + 33 (0)1 87 86 21
88 Tél. +33 (0)1 87
86 22
11a.jeudy@ramsaygds.fr c.desaegher@ramsaygds.fr
Relations Presse
Natixis Vanessa
Stephan Tél.
+ 33 (0)1 58 19 34
16 vanessastephan@natixis.com
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