Smurfit Kappa Announces the Pricing of a Senior Notes Offering

Smurfit Kappa Group plc today announces that it has successfully priced an offering by one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Smurfit Kappa Acquisitions Unlimited Company, of €500 million of euro denominated senior notes due 2024.

The notes priced at par and have a coupon of 2.375%. The closing of the sale of the notes is scheduled to be completed on 24 January 2017, and is subject to customary conditions.

The notes are being offered in a private placement and there will be no public offering of the notes. The notes will be offered and sold only to qualified institutional buyers in accordance with Rule 144A under the U.S. Securities Act and to non-U.S. persons outside the United States in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “U.S. Securities Act”).