Austrian law firm Weber & Co. acted as legal counsel to DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, DZ BANK, Erste Group, RBI and UniCredit in their capacity as Joint Lead Managers in connection with the successful issue of Mortgage Covered Bank Bonds by Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich AG in January 2020.
22 January 2020.
The EUR 500,000,000 0,50 per cent. Fixed Rate Mortgage Covered Bank Bonds, ISIN AT0000A2CFT1, were issued under Austrian law on 22 January 2020 under Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich AG's Debt Issuance Programme. The bonds have a maturity until 2035 and a denomination of EUR 100,000 each. They are listed on the Official Market of the Vienna Stock Exchange.
DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale (Germany), DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Erste Group Bank AG (Austria), Raiffeisen Bank International AG (Austria) und UniCredit Bank AG (Germany) acted as Joint Lead Manager for the bond issue. Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte GmbH & Co KG (lead partner Alexander Haas) advised Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich AG as issuer. Already in 2018, Weber & Co. had advised the Joint Lead Managers and Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte GmbH & Co KG had advised Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich AG as issuer on a EUR 500 million Mortgage Covered Bank Bonds (Fixed Rate Mortgage Collateralised Notes) issue.
Christoph Moser, partner of Weber & Co., who headed the team advising the Joint Lead Managers: "The issue of Mortgage Covered Bank Bonds by Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich AG was successful. We are grateful that the Joint Lead Managers again relied on our legal expertise for the new debt transaction due to our firm's specialized focus."
Transaction team: Christoph Moser (partner, lead), Angelika Fischer (associate).
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