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Inmarsat Announces Senior Notes Offering
Monday, 9 November 2009: Inmarsat plc (LSE: ISAT) today announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary company Inmarsat Finance plc has commenced an offering of senior notes due November 2017 to non-US persons outside the United States pursuant to Regulation S and in the United States to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the US Securities Act of 1933. These new notes will be guaranteed on a senior basis by Inmarsat Group Limited, and on a senior subordinated basis by Inmarsat Investments Limited and certain of its subsidiaries. The aggregate principal amount of the new notes being offered is expected to be US$650 million, which, through a series of steps, will be used to redeem the entire principal amount of US$160 million outstanding under Inmarsat Finance plc’s 7 5/8% senior notes due 2012 and the entire principal amount of US$450 million outstanding under Inmarsat Finance II plc’s 10 3/8% senior discount notes due 2012, and to pay the associated note redemption premia and the fees and expenses of the new notes offering.
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