London and Montréal advise on €7bn note programme

Our London and Montréal offices have advised the dealers on Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec’s €7 billion global medium term note programme (Reg S/144A and listed on the Irish Stock Exchange’s regulated market), established following its absorption of Caisse centrale Desjardins du Québec through a vertical amalgamation that became effective as of January 1, 2017. The arranger for the programme was BNP Paribas and the other dealers were Barclays Bank PLC, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt am Main, HSBC Bank plc, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Merrill Lynch International, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, NATIXIS, RBC Capital Markets LLC, RBC Europe Limited, Société Générale, the Royal Bank of Scotland plc and UBS Limited.

The team was led by Peter Noble, assisted by Jacqueline Heng and Alison Hutchings (London), and Jules Charette (Montréal).