Delivery of the UI Bonds is expected on or about July 2, 2020, which will be the sixth business day following the date of pricing of the UI Bonds. 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 UI Bonds prior to the Settlement Date may be required, by virtue of the fact that the UI Bonds initially will settle in T+6, to specify an alternate settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent a failed settlement. Purchasers of the UI Bonds who wish to trade UI Bonds prior to the Settlement Date should consult their own advisor.
This term sheet has been prepared on the basis that any offer of UI Bonds in any Member State of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or in the United Kingdom (each a “Relevant State”) will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Regulation from the requirement to publish a prospectus for offers of UI Bonds. The expression “Prospectus Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2017/1129.
The UI 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 a Relevant State. For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (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) 2017/1129 (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. Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended, the “PRIIPs Regulation”) for offering or selling the UI Bonds or otherwise making them available to retail investors in a Relevant State has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the UI Bonds or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in a Relevant State may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation.
Each person in a Relevant State who receives any communication in respect of, or who acquires any UI Bonds under, the offers to the public contemplated in the Prospectus Supplement, or to whom the UI Bonds are otherwise made available, will be deemed to have represented, warranted, acknowledged and agreed to and with each underwriter and the Republic that it and any person on whose behalf it acquires UI Bonds is not a “retail investor” (as defined above).
This document is for distribution only to persons who (i) have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (as amended, the “Financial Promotion Order”), (ii) are persons falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) (“high net worth companies, unincorporated associations etc.”) of the Financial Promotion Order, (iii) are outside the United Kingdom, (iv) fall within Article 43 (“Members and creditors of certain bodies corporate”) of Financial Promotion Order, or (v) are persons to whom an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) in connection with the issue or sale of any securities may otherwise lawfully be communicated or caused to be communicated (all such persons together being referred to as “relevant persons”). This document is directed only at relevant persons and must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not relevant persons. Any investment or investment activity to which this document relates is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons.
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