Slaughter and May advised Burberry Group plc on the issuance of a £300,000,000 5.750% bond due 2030

Slaughter and May and Slaughter and May Hong Kong advised Burberry Group plc (Burberry) on its standalone issuance of a £300 million 6-year bond (Bond). The Bond will be admitted to trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and has been assigned a rating of Baa2 by Moody’s. The net proceeds of the Bond will be applied for the general corporate purposes of Burberry’s group.

HSBC, JPM, Lloyds and NatWest acted as Joint Lead Managers for the Bond and China Construction Bank, Société Générale and UniCredit were appointed as passive bookrunners.