Austria: Schoenherr advises Joint Lead Managers on the issue of EUR 300 million Mortgage Covered Notes by Raiffeisenlandesbank Vorarlberg

The issue of EUR 300 million 0.250 % Mortgage Covered Notes 2021-2036 under Austrian law was closed on 4 March 2021. The notes were issued under the issuer's Notes Programme. They have a term of 15 years, maturing in March 2036, and are split into single notes with a denomination of EUR 100,000 each. The notes are listed on the Official Market of the Vienna Stock Exchange.

DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale (Germany), DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Erste Group Bank AG (Austria), Raiffeisen Bank International AG (Austria) and UniCredit Bank AG (Germany) acted as Joint Lead Managers for the notes issue.

"Congratulations to Raiffeisenlandesbank Vorarlberg and the Joint Lead Managers on the successful completion of this transaction. We are pleased that the Joint Lead Managers chose to rely on our legal expertise in relation to this new debt issuance", says Schoenherr partner and co-head of Schoenherr's capital markets practice Christoph Moser, who had also advised the joint lead managers on covered notes issues by Raiffeisenlandesbank Vorarlberg in 2018 and 2019.

The Schoenherr team acting as legal counsel to Joint Lead Managers consisted of Christoph Moser (lead partner), Ursula Rath (partner) and Angelika Fischer (associate).

Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte GmbH & Co KG (lead partner Alexander Haas, Nikolaus Dinhof, Sebastian Prakljacic) advised Raiffeisenlandesbank Vorarlberg as issuer's counsel.