- Extended 5-year maturity and further reduction of the cost of debt to 2.5%
Milan, 28 December 2015 - Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that it has completed a refinancing in order to optimize the Group’s bank debt, leveraging on its improved credit merit driven by a solid operating performance and increasing commercial activity.
The transaction has involved the entire medium-to long-term debt, and a portion of the short-term debt.
The refinancing was carried out through a new €350 million facility with improved terms and conditions. In particular, the Group has managed to decrease its cost of debt to 2.5% and has achieved an extension of the repayment terms to 5 years.
The new facility has been granted by a pool of banks including Intesa Sanpaolo/Banca IMI, UniCredit, MPS, and BPM.
This refinancing will allow the Group to fully support the commercial and strategic challenges of the next few years.
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A.
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. is a company listed with the Milan stock exchange. It heads an industrial group (the Maire Tecnimont Group) that leads the international Engineering & Construction (E&C), Technology & Licensing and Energy Business Development & Ventures markets, with specific competences in plants, particularly in the hydrocarbons segment (Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals and Fertilisers), as well as in Power Generation and Infrastructures. The Maire Tecnimont Group operates in approximately 30 different countries, numbering around 45 operative companies and a workforce of about 4,400 employees, of whom over half work abroad. For more information: www.mairetecnimont.com.
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