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NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA OR JAPAN
Information on signing of a written undertaking by Commerzbank Auslandsbanken Holding AG, entering into the Underwriting Agreement and lock-up undertakings of shares in BRE Bank S.A.
The Management Board of BRE Bank S.A. (“Bank”) pursuant to Article 56 Section 1 Item 1 of the Act of 29 July 2005 on Public Offering, Conditions Governing Introduction of Financial Instruments to Organized Trading, and on Public Companies discloses to the public the information mentioned below.
The Bank has been informed by Commerzbank Auslandsbanken Holding AG that it has signed a written undertaking to exercise all Individual Pre-emptive Rights attached to this company’s Shares in the Bank and take up the corresponding number of the Offer Shares (69.78% of the total number of the Offer Shares that the Bank will offer in a Offering, provided that all the Offer Shares finally offered under the Offering are acquired by the investors). The key terms of this undertaking are summarized in the issue prospectus for the Bank’s new shares, approved on 12 May 2010 by the Financial Supervision Authority (“Prospectus”) in the chapter “Underwriting, Stabilization and Lock-Up Arrangements – Underwriting”.
Pursuant to § 3 Section 2 item d) of Resolution No. 22 of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of 30 March 2010 on the Bank’s share capital increase, public offering of the new shares of the new issue, setting the date of the pre-emptive rights to the shares of the new issue, dematerialization and application for admission of the pre-emptive rights, rights to shares and new shares to trading on a regulated market operated by the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the provisions of the Prospectus, on 12 May 2010 the Bank and Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch entered into an underwriting agreement in respect of the Bank’s new shares not agreed to be acquired by Commerzbank Auslandsbanken Holding AG in accordance with its written undertaking (“Underwriting Agreement”). The key terms of the Underwriting Agreement are summarized in the Prospectus in the chapter “Underwriting, Stabilization and Lock-Up Arrangements – Underwriting”.
One of the key terms of the Underwriting Agreement of 12 May 2010 between the Bank and Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch covers the Bank’s lock-up undertaking. The Bank has also been informed about signing a lock-up undertaking by Commerzbank Auslandsbanken Holding AG. The key terms of the lock-up undertakings referred to in the preceding sentences are summarized in the Prospectus in the chapter “Underwriting, Stabilization and Lock-Up Arrangements – Lock-up”.
The issue prospectus in respect of the new issue of shares, prepared for the purposes of the public offering of new-issue shares and of seeking the admission and introduction of pre-emptive rights, rights to shares from the new issue and of shares from the new issue to trading on the regulated market operated by the Warsaw Stock Exchange, approved on 12 May 2010 by the Financial Supervision Authority, has been released to the public on the Bank’s website (www.brebank.pl) and on the website of Dom Inwestycyjny BRE Banku S.A. (www.dibre.com.pl).
Disclaimer:
This report is for informational and promotional purposes only and under no circumstances shall constitute the basis for a decision to invest in the shares of BRE Bank S.A. with its seat in Warsaw (the “Bank”) in the rights issue offering. This report does not constitute an offer to sell, or an invitation to subscribe for or to buy, any securities of the Bank. In particular, this report is not an offer of securities for sale in the United States.
The prospectus (the “Prospectus”) prepared in connection with the public offering of shares in the Bank, including pre-emptive rights as well as admission and introduction thereof to trading on the regulated market (main market) operated by the Warsaw Stock Exchange (the “WSE”), constitutes the sole and only legally binding offering document containing information about the public offering of the Bank’s securities in Poland (the “Offering”). On 12 May 2010 the Financial Supervision Authority approved the Prospectus. The Bank made the Prospectus available on its website (www.brebank.pl) and on the website of Dom Inwestycyjny BRE Banku S.A. (www.dibre.com.pl).
This report is not for distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States, or in other countries where the public dissemination of the information contained herein may be restricted or prohibited by law. The securities referred to in this report have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.
The information contained herein shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the securities referred to herein in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration, exemption from registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. This report is not for distribution in the United States, Canada, Japan or Australia.
This report is directed only at (i) persons who are outside the United Kingdom, or (ii) investment professionals falling within article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (as amended) (the “Order”), or (iii) high net worth companies and other persons to whom it may lawfully be communicated falling within article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all such persons together being referred to as “Relevant Persons”). Any person who is not a Relevant Person must not act or rely on this report or any of its contents. Any investment or investment activity to which this report relates is available only to Relevant Persons and will be engaged in only with Relevant Persons.
In any EEA Member State other than Poland that has implemented Directive 2003/71/EC (together with any applicable implementing measures in any Member State, the “Prospectus Directive”), this report is only addressed to and is only directed at qualified investors in that Member State within the meaning of the Prospectus Directive.
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