Slaughter and May advised Standard Chartered PLC on its issue of US$1.25 billion of Senior Notes and US$500 million of Subordinated Notes

Slaughter and May advised Standard Chartered PLC on its issue of US$1.25 billion 3.885% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Notes due 2024 and US$500 million 4.866% Fixed Rate Reset Subordinated Notes due 2033 under its US$77.5 billion Debt Issuance Programme.

Barclays Capital, Credit Agricole, Goldman Sachs & Co, J.P. Morgan Securities and Standard Chartered Bank acted as joint lead managers, and ABN AMRO Securities, Bank of Communications, China Construction Bank, CIMB Bank, Deutsche Bank Securities, Emirates NDB Bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank, ICBC, UBS Securities and United Overseas Bank acted as co-lead managers.

John O'Connor and Pavel Bend at Sullivan & Cromwell advised as to New York law.