Cleary Gottlieb represented Crédit Agricole S.A. (Crédit Agricole) in an offering of $1.2 billion 5.301% senior preferred fixed rate notes due 2028 pursuant to its $25 billion U.S. medium-term note program.
The notes were offered for sale in the United States to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A and outside of the United States under Regulation S of the Securities Act of 1933. The managers for the offering were Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, TD Securities (USA) LLC, and Wells Fargo Securities LLC. The transaction priced on January 5, 2023, and closed on January 12, 2023.
Crédit Agricole is the lead bank of the Crédit Agricole group, which is the largest banking group in France, and one of the largest in the world.