The issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus or any prospectus supplement for this offering if you request it by calling Itau BBA USA Securities, Inc. collect at+1-212-710-6749 or toll-free (U.S. only) at+1-888-770-4828, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC collect at+1-212-834-7279 or toll-free (U.S. only) at+1-866-846-2874 or Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. collect at+1-212-225-5559 or toll-free (U.S. only) at+1-800-372-3930.
Delivery of the notes is expected on or about January 23, 2019, which will be the fifth business day following the date of pricing of the notes. Under Rule 15c6–1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, trades in the secondary market generally are required to settle in two business days, unless the parties to any such trade expressly agree otherwise. Accordingly, purchasers who wish to trade notes prior to the Settlement Date may be required, by virtue of the fact that the notes initially will settle in T+5, to specify an alternate settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent a failed settlement. Purchasers of the notes who wish to trade notes prior to the Settlement Date should consult their own advisor.
This term sheet has been prepared on the basis that any offer of bonds in any Member State of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Directive from the requirement to publish a prospectus for offers of bonds. Accordingly any person making or intending to make an offer in that Member State of bonds which are the subject of the offering contemplated in this information may only do so in circumstances in which no obligation arises for the Republic or any of the underwriters to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive in relation to such offer. Neither the Republic nor the underwriters have authorized, nor do they authorize, the making of any offer of bonds in circumstances in which an obligation arises for the Republic or the underwriters to publish a prospectus for such offer.
This EEA selling restriction is in addition to any other selling restrictions set out in this information.
The bonds are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the EEA. For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (a) (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 2002/92/EC (as amended, “IMD”), 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 Directive 2003/71/EC (as amended); 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 bonds to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the bonds.
Each person in a Member State who receives any communication in respect of, or who acquires any Bonds under, the offers contemplated in this prospectus supplement, or to whom the Bonds are otherwise made available, will be deemed to have represented, warranted, acknowledged and agreed to and with each underwriter and the Issuer that it and any person on whose behalf it acquires Bonds is: (1) a Qualified Investor; and (2) not a “retail investor” as defined in Article 4(6) of the PRIIPs Regulation.
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