Cleary Gottlieb represented Crédit Agricole in the offering of two tranches of Senior Unsecured Notes in the United States under its $20 billion US Medium Term Note Program.
The total principal amount of the offering was $1.75 billion, comprised of $1.25 billion 2.750% Notes due 2020 and $500 million Floating Rate Notes due 2020. The Notes were offered for sale in the United States under Rule 144A and Regulation S under the 1933 Securities Act. The transaction, which closed on June 10, 2015, was managed by Credit Agricole Securities, BMO, J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo.
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.