18-K/A 1 d178450d18ka.htm AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO FORM 18-K AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO FORM 18-K

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 18-K/A

 

 

AMENDMENT NO. 5

For Foreign Governments and Political Subdivisions Thereof

 

 

ANNUAL REPORT

of the

REPUBLIC OF PANAMA

(Name of Registrant)

 

 

Date of end of last fiscal year: December 31, 2019

 

 

SECURITIES REGISTERED*

(As of the close of the fiscal year)

 

 

 

 

Title of Issue  

Amounts as to

which registration

is effective

  

Names of

exchanges on

which registered

N/A

   N/A   N/A

 

 

Name and address of person authorized to receive notices

and communications from the Securities and Exchange Commission:

Juan Ricardo De Dianous Henríquez

Ambassador of Panama

Embassy of Panama

2862 McGill Terrace, NW

Washington, D.C. 20008

It is requested that copies of notices and communications from the Securities and

Exchange Commission be sent to:

Eli Whitney Debevoise II, Esq.

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP

601 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20001

 

 

 

*

The Registrant is filing this annual report on a voluntary basis.

 

 

 

REPUBLIC OF PANAMA (THE “REGISTRANT” OR “REPUBLIC”)

Reference is made to the registration statement of the Registrant filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) effective as of December 1, 2020 (Registration No. 333-250981) (the “Registration Statement”).

The purpose of this Amendment to the annual report of the Registrant on Form 18-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, as amended, is to file with the Commission (i) the Bloomberg announcement issued on June 17, 2021, announcing the commencement of fixed income investor calls commencing on Friday June 18, with the possibility that a benchmark-size, USD-denominated Euroclearable offering of local Treasury Bonds (Bonos del Tesoro) due 2031, distributed under Rule 144A/Regulation S, as well as an offering of Global Bonds, may follow, included as Exhibit R hereof, and (ii) the Press Release issued on the date hereof, announcing the Republic’s intention to commence a tender offer for its 4.000% Global Bonds due 2024 at a later date, included as Exhibit S hereof.

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this amendment to the annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, at the City of Panama, Panama, on the 21st day of June, 2021.

 

REPUBLIC OF PANAMA
By:  

/s/ Enelda Medrano de González

Name:   Enelda Medrano de González
Title:   Vice Minister of Economy of the Republic of Panama

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit

No.

     
A:    None
B:    None
*C:    Copy of the 2019 Annual Budget of the Republic (in Spanish) (Rule 311) (P)
*D:    Current Description of the Republic
*E:    Opinion dated September 29, 2020 of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
*F:    Opinion dated September 29, 2020 of the Procurador de la Administración
*G:    Form of 2.252% Global Bonds due 2032
*H:    Form of 3.870% Global Bonds due 2060
*I:    Terms Agreement, dated September 22, 2020, by and between the Republic and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
*J:    Recent Developments in the Registrant as of November 25, 2020
*K:    Recent Developments in the Registrant as of January 20, 2021
*L:    Opinion dated January 27, 2021 of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
*M:    Opinion dated January 27, 2021 of the Procurador de la Administración
*N:    Form of 2.252% Global Bonds due 2032
*O:    Form of 3.870% Global Bonds due 2060
*P:    Terms Agreement, dated January 20, 2021, by and between the Republic and BBVA Securities Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
*Q:    Recent Developments in the Registrant as of June 17, 2021
R    Bloomberg announcement, dated June 17, 2021, announcing the commencement of fixed income investor calls commencing on Friday June 18, with the possibility that a benchmark-size, USD-denominated Euroclearable offering of local Treasury Bonds (Bonos del Tesoro) due 2031, distributed under Rule 144A/Regulation S, as well as an offering of Global Bonds, may follow.
S    Press Release, dated June 21, 2021, announcing the Republic’s intention to commence a tender offer for its 4.000% Global Bonds due 2024 at a later date.

 

*

Previously Filed

(P)

Previous paper filing under cover of Form SE pursuant to Rules 306(c) of Regulation S-T

 

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