SKF signs EUR 800 million multicurrency revolving credit facility

SKF has successfully entered into a EUR 800 million multicurrency revolving credit facility. The facility has a tenor of five years with two one-year extension options, and it will serve as a back-up liquidity facility for general corporate purposes. It refinances SKF’s existing and undrawn EUR 500 million syndicated credit facility and a separate EUR 250 million bilateral credit facility, which in aggregate totaled EUR 750 million.

The facility is supported by a group of ten leading global and regional banks. Bank of America and SEB acted as joint Co-ordinating Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners in the process. In addition, Bank of China, BNP Paribas, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Handelsbanken, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, and Nordea, joined the facility as Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners.