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Atlas Copco AB announces Tender Offer for its €500,000,000 2.500 per cent. Notes due 28 February 2023

28 January 2022. Atlas Copco AB (the Company) announces today its invitation to holders of the outstanding €500,000,000 2.500 per cent. Notes due 28 February 2023 (ISIN: XS0896144655) (the Notes), issued by the Company, to tender any and all of their Notes for purchase by the Company, for cash subject to satisfaction or waiver of the New Financing Condition (as defined below) and the other conditions described in the Tender Offer Memorandum (as defined below) (such invitation the Offer).  The Offer is being made on the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the tender offer memorandum dated 28 January 2022 (the Tender Offer Memorandum) prepared by the Company, and is subject to the offer and distribution restrictions set out below and as more fully described in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Copies of the Tender Offer Memorandum are (subject to the offer and distribution restrictions) available from the Tender Agent as set out below. Capitalised terms used in this announcement but not defined have the meanings given to them in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Summary of the Offer

A summary of certain of the terms of the Offer appear below:

* For information purposes only, the Purchase Price will, when determined in the manner described herein and in the Tender Offer Memorandum on the basis of a yield to the maturity date of the Notes (being 28 February 2023) and a Settlement Date of 8 February 2022, be 103.126 per cent. Should the Settlement Date in respect of the Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer differ from 8 February 2022, the Purchase Price will be recalculated, all as further described herein and in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Rationale for the Offer

The Offer is being made (subject to the New Financing Condition) as part of the Company's ongoing prudent management of its liabilities to enable it to proactively manage its refinancing requirements.

Purchase Price and Accrued Interest

In respect of any Notes validly tendered and accepted by the Company for purchase pursuant to the Offer, the Company will pay a price (the Purchase Price) to be determined in the manner described in the Tender Offer Memorandum by reference to a fixed purchase yield (the Purchase Yield) of -0.45 per cent.

The Purchase Price will be determined in accordance with market convention and expressed as a percentage of the nominal amount of the Notes (rounded to the nearest 0.001 per cent., with 0.0005 being rounded upwards), and is intended to reflect a yield to the maturity date of the Notes (being 28 February 2023) on the Settlement Date based on the Purchase Yield.

The Company will also pay an Accrued Interest Payment in respect of Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer.

New Financing Condition

Atlas Copco Finance DAC (the Issuer), a subsidiary of the Company announced on 28 January 2022 its intention to issue a new series of euro-denominated fixed rate notes (the New Notes) guaranteed by the Company pursuant to their U.S.$.3,000,000,000 Euro Medium Term Note Programme (the Programme) subject to market conditions, the proceeds of which will be used, in whole or in part, to finance the Offer.  Whether the Company will accept for purchase Notes validly tendered in the Offer is subject (unless such condition is waived by the Company in its sole and absolute discretion), without limitation, to the successful completion (in the sole determination of the Company) of the issue of the New Notes (the New Financing Condition).

Even if the New Financing Condition is satisfied (or waived), the Company is not under any obligation to accept for purchase any Notes validly tendered pursuant to the Offer.  The acceptance for purchase by the Company of Notes validly tendered pursuant to the Offer is at the sole and absolute discretion of the Company and tenders may be rejected by the Company for any reason.

Any investment decision to purchase any New Notes should be made solely on the basis of the information contained in (i) the base prospectus dated 23 July 2021 as supplemented on 26 January 2022 (as so supplemented, the Base Prospectus) prepared in connection with the Programme; and (ii) the final terms to be prepared in connection with the New Notes (the Final Terms), and no reliance is to be placed on any representations other than those contained in the Base Prospectus.

Allocation of the New Notes

The Issuer will, in connection with the allocation of the proposed issue of New Notes by or on behalf of the Issuer, consider among other factors whether or not the relevant Noteholder seeking an allocation of the New Notes has validly tendered, or indicated a firm intention to the Company or any Dealer Manager to tender, their Notes pursuant to the Offer, and, if so, the aggregate principal amount of the Notes validly tendered or intended to be tendered by such Noteholder. When considering allocation of the New Notes, the Issuer may give preference to those Noteholders who, prior to such allocation, have validly tendered or indicated their firm intention to the Company or to any Dealer Manager to tender their Notes pursuant to the Offer and subscribe for New Notes. Any allocation of the New Notes will be applicable up to the aggregate nominal amount of Notes tendered or firmly indicated to be tendered pursuant to the Offer. However, the Issuer is not obliged to allocate the New Notes to a Noteholder who has validly tendered or indicated a firm intention to tender the Notes pursuant to the Offer. Any allocation of the New Notes, while being considered by the Issuer as set out above, will be made in accordance with customary new issue allocation processes and procedures and, if New Notes are allocated, the principal amount thereof may be less or more than the principal amount of Notes tendered by such Noteholder and accepted by the Company pursuant to the Offer. In the event that a Noteholder validly tenders Notes pursuant to the Offer, such Notes will remain subject to such tender and the conditions of the Offer as set out in the Tender Offer Memorandum irrespective of whether that Noteholder receives all, part or none of any allocation of New Notes for which it has applied.

A Noteholder wishing for its Tender Instruction or its intention to tender Notes to be taken into account in the allocation process for the New Notes should contact a Dealer Manager (in its capacity as a joint lead manager of the issue of the New Notes) in accordance with the standard new issue procedure of such joint lead manager. The pricing of the New Notes may take place prior to the Expiration Deadline and, as such, Noteholders are advised to contact any of the Dealer Managers as soon as possible in order for this to be taken into account as part of the New Notes allocation process.

Tender Instructions

In order to participate in, and be eligible to receive the Purchase Price and Accrued Interest Payment pursuant to, the Offer, Noteholders must validly tender their Notes by delivering, or arranging to have delivered on their behalf, a valid Tender Instruction that is received by the Tender Agent by 4.00 p.m. (London time) on 3 February 2022 (the Expiration Deadline).  Tender Instructions will be irrevocable except in the limited circumstances described in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Noteholders are advised to check with any bank, securities broker or other intermediary through which they hold Notes when such intermediary would need to receive instructions from a Noteholder in order for that Noteholder to be able to participate in, or (in the limited circumstances in which revocation is permitted) revoke their instruction to participate in, the Offer by the deadlines specified in the Tender Offer Memorandum.  The deadlines set by any such intermediary and each Clearing System for the submission and withdrawal of Tender Instructions will be earlier than the relevant deadlines specified in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Tender Instructions must be submitted in respect of a minimum nominal amount of Notes of no less than €100,000, being the minimum denomination of the Notes, and may be submitted in integral multiples of €1,000 thereafter.

Indicative Timetable for the Offer

The Company may, in its sole discretion, extend, re-open, amend, waive any condition of or terminate the Offer at any time (subject to applicable law and as provided in the Tender Offer Memorandum) and the above times and dates are subject to the right of the Company to so extend, re-open, amend, waive any condition of or terminate the Offer.

Noteholders are advised to check with any bank, securities broker or other intermediary through which they hold Notes when such intermediary would need to receive instructions from a Noteholder in order for that Noteholder to be able to participate in, or (in the limited circumstances in which revocation is permitted) revoke their instruction to participate in, the Offer by the deadlines set out above.  The deadlines set by any such intermediary and each Clearing System for the submission or withdrawal of Tender Instructions will be earlier than the relevant deadlines set out above and in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Unless stated otherwise, announcements in connection with the Offer will be made (i) by publication on the website of the London Stock Exchange (https://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-home.html) and (ii) by the delivery of notices to the Clearing Systems for communication to Direct Participants.  Such announcements may also be made on the relevant Reuters Insider Screen and/or by the issue of a press release to a Notifying News Service.  Copies of all such announcements, press releases and notices can also be obtained upon request from the Tender Agent, the contact details for which are below.  Significant delays may be experienced where notices are delivered to the Clearing Systems and Noteholders are urged to contact the Tender Agent for the relevant announcements during the course of the Offer.  In addition, Noteholders may contact any of the Dealer Managers for information using the contact details below.

Noteholders are advised to read carefully the Tender Offer Memorandum for full details of and information on the procedures for participating in the Offer.

BNP Paribas and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ) are acting as Dealer Managers for the Offer and Lucid Issuer Services Limited is acting as Tender Agent.

Questions and requests for assistance in connection with the Offer may be directed to the Dealer Managers.

Questions and requests for assistance in connection with the delivery of Tender Instructions may be directed to the Tender Agent.

This announcement is released by the Company and contains information that qualified or may have qualified as inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR), encompassing information relating to the Offer described above. For the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, this announcement is made by Daniel Althoff, Vice President: Investor Relations at the Company on 28 January 2022 at approximately 9.30 a.m. (CET).

DISCLAIMER This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender Offer Memorandum.  This announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum contain important information which should be read carefully before any decision is made with respect to the Offer.  If any Noteholder is in any doubt as to the action it should take, it is recommended to seek its own financial and legal advice, including in respect of any tax consequences, immediately from its broker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other independent financial, tax or legal adviser.  Any individual or company whose Notes are held on its behalf by a broker, dealer, bank, custodian, trust company or other nominee must contact such entity if it wishes to tender such Notes pursuant to the Offer. None of the Company, the Dealer Managers or the Tender Agent (or their respective directors, employees or affiliates) makes any recommendation as to whether Noteholders should tender Notes pursuant to the Offer or is providing Noteholders with any legal, business, tax or other advice in this announcement or the Tender Offer Memorandum.

The New Notes are not being, and will not be, offered or sold in the United States. Nothing in this announcement or the Tender Offer Memorandum constitutes an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the New Notes in the United States or any other jurisdiction. 

No action has been or will be taken in any jurisdiction in relation to the New Notes to permit a public offering of securities.

Compliance information for the New Notes: UK MiFIR professionals/ECPs-only/No UK PRIIPs KID - eligible counterparties and professional clients only (all distribution channels). No sales to UK retail investors; no key information document has been or will be prepared. EU MiFID II professionals/ECPs-only/No EU PRIIPs KID - eligible counterparties and professional clients only (all distribution channels). No sales to EEA retail investors; no key information document has been or will be prepared. See the Base Prospectus and Final Terms for further information.

OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS

The distribution of this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law.  Persons into whose possession this announcement and/or the Tender Offer Memorandum comes are required by each of the Company, the Dealer Managers and the Tender Agent to inform themselves about, and to observe, any such restrictions.  Neither this announcement nor the Tender Offer Memorandum constitutes an offer to buy or a solicitation of an offer to sell the Notes (and tenders of Notes in the Offer will not be accepted from Noteholders) in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful.  In those jurisdictions where the securities, blue sky or other laws require the Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer and any of the Dealer Managers or any of their respective affiliates is such a licensed broker or dealer in any such jurisdiction, the Offer shall be deemed to be made by the relevant Dealer Manager or such affiliate, as the case may be, on behalf of the Company in such jurisdiction.

United States.  The Offer is not being made, and will not be made, directly or indirectly, in or into, or by use of the mails of, or by any means or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce of, or of any facilities of a national securities exchange of, the United States or to any U.S. Person (as defined in Regulation S of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (each a U.S. Person)). This includes, but is not limited to, facsimile transmission, electronic mail, telex, telephone, the internet and other forms of electronic communication. The Notes may not be tendered in the Offer by any such use, means, instrumentality or facility from or within the United States or by persons located or resident in the United States.  Accordingly, copies of this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum and any other documents or materials relating to the Offer are not being, and must not be, directly or indirectly mailed or otherwise transmitted, distributed or forwarded (including, without limitation, by custodians, nominees or trustees) in or into the United States or to a U.S. Person and the Notes cannot be tendered in the Offer by any such use, means, instrumentality or facility or from or within or by persons located or resident in the United States or by a U.S. Person.  Any purported tender of Notes in the Offer resulting directly or indirectly from a violation of these restrictions will be invalid and any purported tender of Notes made by a person located in the United States, a U.S. Person, or by any person acting for the account or benefit of, a person located in the United States or a U.S. Person or any agent, fiduciary or other intermediary acting on a non-discretionary basis for a principal giving instructions from within the United States will be invalid and will not be accepted. 

Neither this announcement nor the Tender Offer Memorandum is an offer to buy or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to sell or buy, any Notes or other securities in the United States or to U.S. Persons. Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under, or an exemption from the registration requirements of, the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act). The New Notes and the guarantee of the New Notes have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States, and the New Notes may not be offered, sold or delivered, directly or indirectly, in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. Persons.

Each Noteholder participating in the Offer will represent that it is not located in the United States and is not participating in the Offer from the United States, or it is acting on a non-discretionary basis for a principal located outside the United States that is not giving an order to participate in the Offer from the United States. For the purposes of this and the above two paragraphs, United States means the United States of America, its territories and possessions (including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana Islands), any state of the United States of America and the District of Columbia.

Italy.  None of the Offer, this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum or any other document or materials relating to the Offer have been or will be submitted to the clearance procedures of the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) pursuant to Italian laws and regulations.  The Offer is being carried out in the Republic of Italy (Italy) as an exempted offer pursuant to article 101-bis, paragraph 3-bis of the Legislative Decree No. 58 of 24 February 1998, as amended (the Financial Services Act) and article 35-bis, paragraph 4 of CONSOB Regulation No. 11971 of 14 May 1999, as amended. Noteholders or beneficial owners of the Notes that are resident and/or located in Italy can tender Notes for purchase pursuant to the Offer through authorised persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in Italy in accordance with the Financial Services Act, CONSOB Regulation No. 20307 of 15 February 2018, as amended from time to time, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of 1 September 1993, as amended) and in compliance with any other applicable laws and regulations and with any requirements imposed by CONSOB and any other Italian authority.

Each intermediary must comply with the applicable laws and regulations concerning information duties vis-à-vis its clients in connection with the Notes or the Offer.

United Kingdom.  The communication of this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum and any other documents or materials relating to the Offer is not being made and such documents and/or materials have not been approved by an authorised person for the purposes of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.  Accordingly, this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum and such documents and/or materials are not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, persons in the United Kingdom other than (i) to those persons in the United Kingdom falling within the definition of investment professionals (as defined in Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the Financial Promotion Order)), (ii) to those persons who are within Article 43 of the Financial Promotion Order, or (iii) to any other persons to whom it may otherwise lawfully be made under the Financial Promotion Order.

France.  The Offer is not being made, directly or indirectly, to the public in the Republic of France (France).  This announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum and any other document or material relating to the Offer may be distributed in France only to qualified investors (investisseurs qualifiés) as defined in Article 2(e) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 and in accordance with Articles L.411-1 and L.411-2 of the French Code monétaire et financier.  Neither this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum, nor any other such offering material has been or will be submitted for clearance to nor approved by the Autorité des marchés financiers.