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From:ben.glisan@enron.com
To:paul.chivers@enron.com
Subject:Re: $2.15 bn Enron Metals Inventory Financings Closed
Cc:andrew.fastow@enron.com, angela.brown@enron.com, anne.edgley@enron.com,bill.appleby@enron.com, catharina.clabots@enron.com, clive.hutchings@enron.com, david.tregar@enron.com, eric.gadd@enron.com, fernley.dyson@enron.com, greg.whalley@enron.com, howa
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Date:Thu, 7 Dec 2000 05:05:00 -0800 (PST)

I echo Paul's comments. This is a tremendously important transaction to
Enron and could not have been done without the efforts of the entire team.

Conagratulations to the entire team on the closing and thank you for both the
effort and the creativity.

Ben



Paul Chivers
12/07/2000 03:16 AM

To: Andrew S Fastow/HOU/ECT@ECT, Ben F Glisan/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mark
Frevert/NA/Enron@Enron, John Sherriff/LON/ECT@ECT, Michael R
Brown/LON/ECT@ECT, Greg Whalley/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jeffrey McMahon/HOU/ECT@ECT,
Michael J Hutchinson/EU/Enron@Enron, Michael Farmer/EU/Enron@ENRON, Tom
McKeever/EU/Enron@Enron, David P Tregar/EU/Enron@Enron, Kelly H
Boots/HOU/ECT@ECT, Joe Gold/LON/ECT@ECT, Richard Lewis/LON/ECT@ECT, Matthew
Scrimshaw/LON/ECT@ECT, Fernley Dyson/LON/ECT@ECT, Mark Evans/Legal/LON/ECT@ECT
cc: Bill Appleby/LON/ECT@ECT, Anne Edgley/LON/ECT@ECT, David P
Tregar/EU/Enron@Enron, Howard Carter/EU/Enron@Enron, Justin Boyd/LON/ECT@ECT,
Melissa Allen/LON/ECT@ECT, Phillip D Lord/LON/ECT@ECT, Eric Gadd/LON/ECT@ECT,
Tim DeSpain/HOU/ECT@ECT, Michael Kopper/HOU/ECT@ECT, Peter
Russell/EU/Enron@Enron, Clive Hutchings/EU/Enron@Enron, William
Sell/EU/Enron@Enron, Janine Juggins/LON/ECT@ECT, Catharina
Clabots/LON/ECT@ECT, Angela A Brown/LON/ECT@ECT
Subject: $2.15 bn Enron Metals Inventory Financings Closed

Last Tuesday Global Finance Europe closed a new off balance sheet facility
with Barclays creating up to $1bn of capacity for existing and new physical
metals trades for Enron Metals. This transaction will be added to through an
additional $350mm of capacity from Credit Lyonnais and compliments the $750mm
Warrants structure completed in September.

Each transaction involves a sale of either Physical Metal or Warrants to the
bank with Enron receiving an associated call option. The bank hedges its
market risk through a complimentary foward sale with the LME. The new
physical metal facility will start receiving its first trades this week.

The transaction achieves much for Enron:
Deconsolidation of approximately $2bn of debt financed inventory which came
with the aquisition of MG plc;
The creation of new capacity to grow the business beyond its existing base;
Committed facilities for the business unit which are at a lower cost than
the original debt financed facilities;
The creation of an additional $2.15 bn capacity in the bank markets as the
facilities extinguish up to 20 lines of existing credit in the banks market;
A clearer reporting and control structure for the funding of Enron Metals.;
A repeatable low cost structure which meets all tax and accounting tests for
applications across all our business lines

Congratulations to the deal team on this great effort

EGF Bill Appleby, Anne Edgley
Enron Metals David Tregar; John Lunzer; Howard Carter; Clive Hutchings;
William Sell
Legal Justin Boyd
TransSupport / Acctg Melissa Allen; Phillip Lord
Tax Janine Juggins; Catharina Clabots; Angela Brown