PROPERTY developer Megaworld Corp. on Tuesday listed its P12-billion Series B fixed-rate bonds at the Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corp. (PDEx).
The seven-year fixed-rate Series B bonds due 2024 is a larger issue and longer tenor than its maiden issue of P5-billion, five-year bonds eight years ago.
The paper was priced at 5.3535 percent per year.
The bond was oversubscribed 2.2 times due to a strong demand from a wide spectrum of investors, ranging from individuals in the retail market to banks, investment funds, pension funds, insurance companies and other corporates.
Megaworld Senior Vice President for Commercial Division Kevin Tan and Megaworld COO Lourdes Gutierrez-Alfonso led the ringing of the ceremonial bell to herald the start of trading of the newly listed bonds.
The debt-paper issuance is the initial tranche from its P30-billion shelf registration of debt securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Proceeds from the bonds are intended to primarily finance the issuer’s capital expenditures in relation to its investment properties.
BDO Capital and Investment Corp. acted as issue manager, lead underwriter and sole bookrunner for the bonds. China Bank Capital Corp. is the underwriter for the bond issue.
Megaworld, the property development arm of businessman Andrew Tan, earlier said it is increasing its capital expenditures this year by about 9 percent to P60 billion, from last year’s P55-billion budget.
The company—known for its mixed-use developments mainly for the business-process outsourcing sector—said 80 percent of the capital spending for the year, or about P48 billion, will be used for accelerating and expanding projects in various townships across the country.
The remaining 20 percent, or P12 billion, will be used for land acquisition and investment
properties.
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