Oleg Deripaska's En+ Group said Monday that it had secured a $900 million loan from state-controlled investment bank VTB Capital to complete the refinancing of debt.
The holding, which owns 47.4 percent of United Company RusAl, said it had cut its debt to $822 million from $1.05 billion during the course of the year — setting up the opportunity to take a new loan.
The terms allow En+ to recover the 25 percent of EuroSibEnergo that banks hold as collateral and cut the 15 percent of United Company RusAl held as assurance against repayment to 11 percent, En+ spokesman Andrei Petrushinin said.
"The VTB Capital loan has created great possibilities for further development of the existing En+ Group's businesses as well as new attractive projects in power generation, coal, uranium, gold, iron ore mining and others," first deputy chief executive Artyom Volynets said in a statement.
A company spokesman confirmed that the group's total debt now stood at exactly $900 million. The new loan is due in two years, with an option for a one-year extension.
(Reuters, Bloomberg)
