{"id":904,"date":"2021-12-01T16:34:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T07:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/?p=904"},"modified":"2021-12-01T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T07:34:34","slug":"canadian-solar-files-a-eur-100-million-note-program-in-the-spanish-marf-to-support-project-development-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/2021\/904.html","title":{"rendered":"CANADIAN SOLAR FILES A EUR 100 MILLION NOTE PROGRAM IN THE SPANISH MARF TO SUPPORT PROJECT DEVELOPMENT GROWTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GUELPH, ON,\u00a0Nov. 19, 2021\u00a0\/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canadiansolar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Canadian Solar Inc.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(the &#8220;Company&#8221; or &#8220;Canadian Solar&#8221;) (NASDAQ: CSIQ) announces that\u00a0Canadian Solar EMEA Capital Markets, S.A.U., an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of\u00a0Canadian Solar, on\u00a0November 19, 2021\u00a0registered in\u00a0Spain\u00a0a \u20ac\u00a0100 million medium term note program, dated\u00a0November 15, 2021, in the Spanish multilateral trading facility (MTF) for debt securities (MARF). Any payment under the notes issued under the note program will be guaranteed by the Company. The notes may qualify as &#8220;green bonds&#8221; pursuant to the\u00a0International Capital Market Association\u00a0(ICMA) Green Bond Principles and the Green Financing Framework adopted by the Company in\u00a0Europe,\u00a0Middle East\u00a0and\u00a0Africa, or EMEA region.\u00a0Canadian Solar&#8217;s\u00a0EMEA&#8217;s Green Financing Framework received a favorable third-party opinion from Sustainalytics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The notes will only be offered and sold to non-U.S.\u00a0persons outside\u00a0the United States\u00a0in reliance on Regulation S under the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Securities Act of 1933 (the &#8220;Securities Act&#8221;). The notes have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction in\u00a0the United States. The notes may not be offered or sold in\u00a0the United States\u00a0absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0European Union, the notes will only be directed to &#8220;qualified investors&#8221; as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017\/1129, including (i) eligible counterparties, as defined in Directive 2014\/65\/EU of the\u00a0European Parliament\u00a0and of the Council of\u00a015\u00a0May 2014\u00a0(the &#8220;EU MiFID II&#8221;) and the Spanish Securities Market Act; and (ii) professional clients, as defined in the EU MiFID II and the Spanish Securities Market Act, or any provision which may replace or supplement it in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the note program,\u00a0Canadian Solar\u00a0aims to increase its sustainable investment footprint, using the fund proceeds to finance the development and acquisition of new solar PV and battery storage projects, both nationally and internationally, and support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The notes will have a minimum denomination of \u20ac\u00a0100,000 each (or a minimum equivalent amount in any other currency), while their interest rates and maturities will be determined at the time of each issuance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUELPH, ON,\u00a0Nov. 19, 2021\u00a0\/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0Canadian Solar Inc.\u00a0(the &#8220;Company&#8221; or &#8220;Canadi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}