2008 Registration Document - Rexel

14. Financial information concerning the assets andliabilities, financial position and profits and lossesof Rexel19. FINANCIAL LIABILITIESThis note provides information about financial liabilities asof December 31, 2008. Financial liabilities include interestbearingloans, borrowings and accrued interest lesstransaction costs.19.1 Net financial debt(in millions of euros)As of December 31, 2008 As of December 31, 2007CurrentTotalCurrentNoncurrentNoncurrentSenior Subordinated Notes and indexed bonds – – – 54.8 – 54.8Senior credit facility 178.2 2,225.9 2,404.1 – 960.6 960.6Securitization – 1,255.0 1,255.0 – 1,012.1 1,012.1Bank loans 5.2 3.7 8.9 5.9 5.0 10.9Bank overdrafts and other credit facilities (1) 91.4 – 91.4 45.1 – 45.1Finance lease obligations 9.6 17.4 27.0 16.9 37.5 54.4Less transaction costs – (47.4) (47.4) – (16.1) (16.1)Carrying amount of liability 284.4 3,454.6 3,739.0 122.7 1,999.1 2,121.8Total financial debt and accrued interest 3,739.0 2,121.8Cash and cash equivalents (807.0) (515.2)Net financial debt 2,932.0 1,606.6(1) Including accrued interest of €8.3 million as of December 31, 2008 (€4.5 million as of December 31, 2007).Total19.1.1 Senior Credit AgreementWithin the context of the tender offer initiated in TheNetherlands by Kelium (an indirect subsidiary of Rexel) onDecember 24, 2007 relating to 100% of the securities ofHagemeyer, Rexel, as borrower and guarantor, and Kelium,as borrower, entered into a €5.4 billion credit agreementon December 19, 2007 with Calyon, Crédit Industriel etCommercial (CIC), HSBC France, HSBC Bank plc, ING BankNV, Natixis and The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, as MandatedLead Arrangers and Original Lenders, and Calyon, as Agent.The Senior Credit Agreement was entered into to financeHagemeyer acquisition, refinance the entirety of the Group’sdebt under the 2007 Senior Credit Agreement entered intoon February 15, 2007, refinance the Hagemeyer Group’s debtand finance the general operating requirements of Groupcompanies. The Senior Credit Agreement was amended onSeptember 22, 2008 and includes:− Facility A, which is a multi-currency partly redeemable creditfacility with a five-year term as from the execution date of theSenior Credit Agreement (i.e. as from December 19, 2007),in an initial amount of €3.1 billion which was intended topartially refinance Rexel’s existing debt (in principal, interestand premiums) under the 2007 Senior Credit Agreement,finance the acquisition of the Hagemeyer securities,ensure the refinancing of Hagemeyer’s debt and that of itssubsidiaries and pay the expenses and charges relatingto Offer. Following disposals to Sonepar of non-retainedHagemeyer entities, this facility has been repaid for anamount of €783.0 (€571.0 million on June 19, 2008 and€212.0 million on July 1, 2008). In August 2008, this facilitywas reduced by €60 million, following the implementationof Facility A’.− Facility A’ was created by the execution of the amendmentdated September 22, 2008 and immediately drawn infull for a nominal amount of €60 million by reallocating asimilar amount from Facility A to Facility A’. It has the samemain characteristics than Facility A, and must be repaidin priority on such Facility A (see repayment schedule innote 20.3).− Facility B, which is a multi-currency revolving credit facility(“Revolver”) with a five-year term as from the execution dateof the Senior Credit Agreement, in an original maximumamount of €600 million which is intended to partiallyrefinance Rexel’s existing debt (in principal, interest andPAGE 194 | REXEL 2008