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Transfer of ownership title to shares of the companies within BZWBK Group S.A.
The Management Board of Bank Zachodni WBK S.A. (the "Bank") hereby informs that on 19 February 2009 an agreement was entered into by and between the Bank and its subsidiary BZ WBK Finanse Sp. z o.o. seated in PoznaÅ„ ("BZ WBK Finanse") on transferring the ownership title to shares of the Bank’s selected subsidiaries (the “Agreement”).
Pursuant to the Agreement, the Bank transferred onto BZ WBK Finanse the ownership title to:
1) 1,216,919 shares of BZ WBK Leasing S.A. with a total nominal value of PLN 121 691 900.00 representing 99.99 % of the share capital and votes at the company’s AGM, with the total value equalling the carrying value in the Bank’s books of PLN 61,257,096.09. The value of shares in the BZ WBK Finanse books will total PLN 61,257,096.09;
2) 100 shares of BZ WBK Faktor Sp. z o.o. with a total nominal value of PLN 50 000.00 representing 100% of the share capital and votes at the company’s AGM, with the total value equalling the carrying value in the Bank’s books of PLN 6,200,073.20. The value of shares in the BZ WBK Finanse books will total PLN 6,200,073.20.
The above shares represent the Bank’s non-cash contribution to the BZWBK Finanse capital with a total value of PLN 67 457 169,29 in return for which the Bank at the registration of the share capital increase will take up 11 436 new shares in the increased share capital of BZ WBK Finanse.
All the disposed assets were a long term equity investment of the Bank and will be a long term equity investment of BZ WBK Finanse.
Following the share capital increase in BZ WBK Finanse and contribution in kind of the aforesaid assets, the Bank holds no shares in BZ WBK Leasing S.A. and BZ WBK Faktor Sp. z o.o.
Assets whose value exceeds 20% of the share capital in units whose shares and interests are financial assets subject to a given transaction are recognised as assets of significant value.
The transfer of the ownership title to the aforesaid shares stems from the reorganisation carried out within BZWBK Group.
Legal grounds:
art. 56 sec. 1 item 2 of the Act on public offering and conditions of introducing financial instruments to the organized trading system and on public companies;
§5 sec. 1 item 1 of the Finance Minister’s Ordinance re. current and periodic information submitted by issuers of securities, dated 19 October 2005.
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