NYSE Euronext (NYX) (the "Company”) today announced that it
priced an underwritten public offering of $850 million in aggregate
principal amount of 2.000% Notes due 2017. NYSE Euronext intends to use
the net proceeds from this offering to fund the purchase of certain of
its outstanding $750 million 4.80% Notes due 2013 and €1 billion 5.375%
Notes due 2015 in concurrent cash tender offers, for the payment of
expenses in connection with these tender offers and for other general
corporate purposes.
The joint book-running managers for the offering are BofA Merrill Lynch,
Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Societe Generale. The
offering is expected to close on October 5, 2012.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor will there be any
sale of any securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer,
solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or
qualification under the securities laws of any such state or
jurisdiction.
The offering may be made only by means of a
prospectus and a related prospectus supplement, copies of which may be
obtained
by contacting BofA Merrill Lynch at 1-800-294-1322 or dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com;
Citigroup at 1-800-831-9146 or batprospectusdept@citigroup.com;
J.P. Morgan at 1-212-834-4533; Morgan Stanley at 1-866-718-1649; or
Societe Generale at 1-855-881-2108 or us-glfi-syn-cap@sgcib.com.
About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets
and provider of innovative trading technologies. The Company’s exchanges
in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options,
fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000
listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), the Company's
equities markets - the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE MKT,
NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca - represent one-third of the world’s
equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. The
Company also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European
derivatives businesses and the world’s second-largest derivatives
business by value of trading. The Company offers comprehensive
commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and
services through NYSE Technologies. The Company is in the S&P 500 index.
Disclaimer and Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that may constitute
"forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In
some cases, you can identify these statements by forward-looking words
such as "may,” "might,” "will,” "should,” "expect,” "plan,”
"anticipate,” "believe,” "estimate,” "predict,” "potential” or
"continue,” and the negative of these terms and other comparable
terminology. These forward-looking statements, which are subject to
known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about the
Company, may include projections of the Company’s future financial
performance based on the Company’s growth strategies and anticipated
trends in the Company’s business and industry. These statements are only
predictions based on the Company’s current expectations and projections
about future events. There are important factors that could cause the
Company’s actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements
to differ materially from the results, level of activity, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. In
particular, you should consider the risks and uncertainties described
under "Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of the Company’s Annual Report
on Form 10-K filed for the year ended December 31, 2011, and any
additional risks and uncertainties described in the Company’s subsequent
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
These risks and uncertainties are not exhaustive. Sections of the
prospectus and related prospectus supplement describe additional factors
that could adversely impact the Company’s business and financial
performance. Moreover, the Company operates in a very competitive and
rapidly changing environment. New risks and uncertainties emerge from
time to time, and it is not possible to predict all risks and
uncertainties, nor can the Company assess the impact that these factors
will have on the Company’s business or the extent to which any factor,
or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially
from those contained in any forward-looking statements.
Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in the
forward-looking statements are reasonable, the Company cannot guarantee
future results, level of activity, performance or achievements.
Moreover, neither the Company nor any other person assumes
responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any of these
forward-looking statements. You should not rely upon forward-looking
statements as predictions of future events. The Company is under no duty
to update any of these forward-looking statements after the date of this
press release to conform the Company’s prior statements to actual
results or revised expectations and the Company does not intend to do so.
The Company cautions you not to place undue reliance on the
forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this
press release. The Company expressly qualify in their entirety all
forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or any person
acting on the Company’s behalf by the cautionary statements referred to
above.
