Vonovia SE
Vonovia SE: 93.09 % of conwert shareholders accept Vonovia’s takeover offer (news with additional features)
DGAP-News: Vonovia SE / Key word(s): Offer NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION (IN WHOLE OR IN PART) IN, INTO OR FROM ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD VIOLATE THE LAWS OF SUCH JURISDICTION. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NEITHER AN OFFER TO EXCHANGE, SELL OR PURCHASE NOR A SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO EXCHANGE, SELL OR PURCHASE SHARES. 93.09 % of conwert Shareholders Accept Vonovia’s Takeover Offer
In the course of the entire takeover offer, 87.57 % of all conwert shares were tendered into the cash offer and 5.52 % into the exchange offer. The combination of Vonovia and conwert will create a company with a portfolio comprising around 355,000 residential units. Conwert has around 24,500 units, mainly in Leipzig, Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden and Vienna. The settlement of the offer for the shares tendered during the extended acceptance period is expected to take place in the beginning of April 2017.
Additional Information: This press release has been issued by Vonovia SE (Vonovia) solely for information purposes. Moreover, it is neither an offer to exchange, sell or purchase nor a solicitation to exchange, sell or purchase Vonovia shares or shares of conwert Immobilien Invest SE (conwert). The conditions and further provisions relating to the takeover offer are published in the offer document which has been published on 17 November 2016. Investors and holders of conwert shares are strongly recommended to review the offer document and all other documents related to the takeover offer, as they contain important information. The voluntary public takeover offer will continue to be conducted solely on the basis of the applicable provisions of the Austrian law, especially the Austrian Takeover Code. It is not being and will not be conducted in accordance with the legal provisions of jurisdictions other than Austria. This press release may contain statements, assumptions, opinions and predictions about the anticipated future development of Vonovia (“forward-looking statements”) that reproduce various assumptions regarding results derived from Vonovia’s current business or from publicly available sources that have not been subject to an independent audit or in-depth evaluation by Vonovia and that may turn out to be incorrect at a later stage. All forward-looking statements express current expectations based on the current business plan and various other assumptions and therefore come with risks and uncertainties that are not insignificant. All forward-looking statements should not therefore be taken as a guarantee for future performance or results and, furthermore, do not necessarily constitute appropriate indicators that the forecast results will be achieved. All forward-looking statements relate solely to the day on which this press release was issued to its recipients. It is the responsibility of the recipients of this press release to conduct a more detailed analysis of the validity of forward-looking statements and the underlying assumptions. Vonovia accepts no responsibility for any direct or indirect damages or losses or subsequent damages or losses, as well as penalties that the recipients may incur by using the press release, its contents and, in particular, all forward-looking statements or in any other way, as far as this is legally permissible. Vonovia does not provide any guarantees or assurances (either explicitly or implicitly) in respect of the information contained in this press release. Vonovia is not obliged to update or correct the information, forward-looking statements or conclusions drawn in this press release or to include subsequent events or circumstances or to report inaccuracies that become known after the date of this press release. The shares referenced herein have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (Securities Act), or with any securities regulatory authority of any state or any other jurisdiction of the USA. Securities may only be offered or sold within the USA pursuant to, or in a transaction not subject to or exempt from, the registration requirement of the Securities Act. There will be no public offering in the USA. If Vonovia shares may, in Vonovia’s opinion, not be offered or delivered to a U.S. shareholder according to the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, such U.S. shareholder that validly accepts the offer will receive, in lieu of Vonovia shares to which it would otherwise be entitled the net cash proceeds of the sale of such Vonovia shares in euro. Additional features: Document: http://n.eqs.com/c/fncls.ssp?u=NOTOSWMQGK Document title: 93.09 % of conwert Shareholders Accept Vonovia’s Takeover Offer 27.03.2017 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP – a service of EQS Group AG.
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