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Western EuropeJune 4 2006

A new twist to debt exchange

In its latest debt exchange offer, Stora Enso managed to reduce its reporting burden. Edward Russell-Walling reports.
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Liability management may not be driving quite as many capital market transactions as it did a couple of years ago, but it certainly has not gone away and techniques continue to evolve. In a new twist to the traditional exchange offer, Stora Enso managed to reduce its US reporting burden at the same time as extending its debt maturity profile.

The Finland-based company is the world’s largest producer of paper and board. That has been a mixed blessing of late because the sector as a whole has been passing through a difficult phase.

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