UNICREDIT (UCG): UniCredit successfully completes the sale of its remaining stake in FinecoBank - raport 42

Raport bieżący nr 42/2019

Podstawa Prawna: Inne uregulowania
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UniCredit successfully completes the sale of its remaining stake in FinecoBank

The gross proceeds amount to approximately €1,099 million, deriving from the sale of approximately 111.6 million ordinary shares of FinecoBank, at a price of €9.85 per share.

In line with the previously communicated financial measures which will underpin UniCredit’s 2020-23 business strategy and further to the press release published on 8 July 2019, UniCredit S.p.A. ("UniCredit") announces the successful completion of the accelerated bookbuild offering to institutional investors of approximately 111.6 million existing ordinary shares in FinecoBank S.p.A. ("Fineco" or the "Company"), equal to approximately 18.3 per cent of the Company’s issued share capital, at a price of €9.85 per share (the "Placement"). The settlement of the Placement will take place on 11 July 2019.

The price represents a discount of approximately 4.4 per cent to the pre-announcement last closing price of Fineco.

The overall capital impact is estimated to be an increase of approximately 30 basis points in the UniCredit Group CET1 capital ratio in 3Q 2019.

J.P. Morgan, UBS Investment Bank and UniCredit Corporate & Investment Banking acted as Joint Bookrunners of the Placement.

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The securities referred to herein have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States without registration thereunder or pursuant to an available exemption therefrom. Neither this document nor the information contained herein constitutes or forms part of an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, securities in the United States. There will be no public offer of any securities in the United States or in any other jurisdiction.

In member states of the European Economic Area ("EEA") which have implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), this announcement and any offer if made subsequently is directed exclusively at persons who are "qualified investors" within the meaning of the Prospectus Directive ("Qualified Investors"). For these purposes, the expression "Prospectus Directive" means Directive 2003/71/EC (and amendments thereto, including the 2010 PD Amending Directive, to the extent implemented in a Relevant Member State), and includes any relevant implementing measure in the Relevant Member State and the expression "2010 PD Amending Directive" means Directive 2010/73/EU. In the United Kingdom this announcement is directed exclusively at Qualified Investors (i) who have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the "Order") or (ii) who fall within Article 49(2)(A) to (D) of the Order, and (iii) to whom it may otherwise lawfully be communicated; any other persons in the United Kingdom should not take any action on the basis of this announcement and should not act on or rely on it. This announcement is not an offer of securities or investments for sale nor a solicitation of an offer to buy securities or investments in any jurisdiction where such offer or solicitation would be unlawful. No action has been taken that would permit an offering of the securities or possession or distribution of this announcement in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required. Persons into whose possession this announcement comes are required to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions.

In connection with any offering of the shares of FinecoBank S.p.A. (the "Shares"), the Joint Bookrunners and any of its affiliates acting as an investor for its own account may take up as a proprietary position any Shares and in that capacity, may retain, purchase or sell for their own account such Shares. In addition, the Joint Bookrunners or its affiliates may enter into financing arrangements and swaps with investors in connection with which the Joint Bookrunners (or its affiliates) may from time to time acquire, hold or dispose of Shares.

The Joint Bookrunners do not intend to disclose the extent of any such investment or transactions otherwise than in accordance with any legal or regulatory obligation to do so.

UniCredit S.p.A.

Milan, 8 July 2019

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