Sandoz issues EUR 500 million bond

• Bond issuance with principal amount of EUR 500 million and 12 years maturity

• Proceeds from bond issuance will be used for general corporate purposes including refinancing of existing debt

Basel, 14 September, 2026 – Sandoz (SIX:SDZ/OTCQX:SDZNY), the global leader in affordable medicines, today announced the issuance of a EUR 500 million bond with a coupon of 4.835% and a maturity of 12 years, for general corporate purposes including the refinancing of existing debt.

Sandoz CFO Remco Steenbergen says: “The successful issuance of this 12-year EUR 500 million bond underlines the strength of our financial foundation at Sandoz and extends the maturity profile of our debt portfolio. Our proactive interest rate risk management substantially mitigated the impact of recent increases in market interest rates and enabled us to secure it at an attractive effective interest cost, below the bond’s contractual coupon. Through continued discipline in debt management, we have achieved a diversified, well-balanced maturity profile and meaningful reductions in funding costs.”

Including this transaction, Sandoz expects to maintain an average annual interest rate on gross debt below 4%, further reinforcing its resilient capital structure through a debt maturity profile extending to 2038 and an average debt maturity of approximately six years, excluding bonds maturing through 2027.

Sandoz aims to maintain an investment grade credit rating and is rated Baa2 (positive outlook) by Moody’s and BBB (positive outlook) by S&P.

The transaction was supported by a bank syndicate consisting of Bank of America, Mizuho and SEB as active bookrunners and Citi, HSBC and Société Générale as passive bookrunners. Advestra and Linklaters acted as Sandoz legal advisors.

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In Canada, the bonds may only be offered or sold only in certain specified provinces to purchasers purchasing, or deemed to be purchasing, as principal that are accredited investors and permitted clients in accordance with applicable Canadian securities laws. Any resale of the bonds must be made in accordance with an exemption from, or a transaction not subject to, applicable prospectus requirements.

THIS MEDIA RELEASE IS NOT AN OFFER OF SECURITIES FOR SALE IN THE UNITED STATES. SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES ABSENT REGISTRATION OR AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION. THE BONDS HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED IN THE UNITED STATES AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO ANY US PERSON, AND THIS MEDIA RELEASE MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED IN THE UNITED STATES.

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ABOUT SANDOZ
Sandoz (SIX: SDZ; OTCQX: SDZNY) is the global leader in affordable medicines, with a growth strategy driven by its Purpose: pioneering access for patients. More than 20,000 colleagues of 100 nationalities work together to ensure over one billion patients are reached by Sandoz, generating substantial global healthcare savings and an even larger social impact. Its leading portfolio of approximately 1,300 medicines addresses diseases from the common cold to cancer. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Sandoz traces its heritage back to 1886. In 2026, Sandoz celebrates 20 years of pioneering biosimilars, 80 years of antibiotics manufacturing and 140 years of heritage. In 2025, Sandoz recorded net sales of USD 11.1 billion.

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