On June 8, 2009 RWE Finance B.V. issued a EUR 1.5 billion benchmark bond with a short-dated tenor of 2.25 years. It is the third Eurobond placed by RWE in 2009 after the dual-tranche 6 year & 12 year offering in February.

Calyon, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and Unicredit (HVB) acted as joint lead managers of the bond, which is guaranteed by RWE AG.

With this bond, which was several times oversubscribed, RWE secures further refinancing of the planned acquisition of the Dutch utility Essent.