Final Result of Technopolis’s Rights Issue
TECHNOPOLIS OYJ STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE June, 18, 2012 at 1.15 pm.
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Final Result of Technopolis’s Rights Issue
All the offered 12,088,836 shares were subscribed for in Technopolis Plc’s (the “Company”) rights issue completed on 12 June 2012. A total of 11,874,720 shares were subscribed for in the primary subscription representing approximately 98.2 per cent of the shares offered. A total of 8,470,366 shares were subscribed for in the secondary subscription, of which 214,116 subscriptions were approved. Thus, the subscriptions amounted to 168.3 per cent of the shares offered. The proceeds raised by the Company in the rights issue were approximately EUR 31.8 million after deducting fees and expenses.
The Company’s Board of Directors has today, 18 June 2012, approved all primary subscriptions made in the offering, and decided to approve the subscriptions made by the Company’s shareholders or other subscribers by virtue of the secondary subscription right in accordance with the Terms and Conditions of the Offering. In respect of shares not subscribed for in the primary subscriptions, the subscriptions made by shareholders or other subscribers by virtue of the secondary subscription right were approved in accordance with the terms and conditions of the share offering in proportion to their subscription rights exercised in accordance with the primary subscription right, but not more than up to the maximum number of subscriptions made in the secondary subscription per book-entry account. In case several subscription assignments were given concerning a certain book-entry account, these subscription assignments were combined as one subscription assignment concerning a certain book-entry account before the allocation.
Shareholders or other subscribers who did not receive some or any of the shares subscribed for by virtue of the secondary subscription right will be repaid the subscription price for the shares not received to the bank account informed by the shareholder or other subscribers in connection with the subscription on or about 19 June 2012. No interest will accrue for the repayable funds.
The shares subscribed for based on the primary subscription right have been subject to public trading on the Official List of the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd as interim shares as of 13 June 2012. The shares subscribed for in the rights issue will be registered with the Finnish Trade Register on or about 19 June 2012 after which the interim shares will be combined with the Company’s existing share class on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd and will be admitted to trading as part of the Company’s current share class on or about 20 June 2012.
Following the registration of the new shares with the Trade Register, the number of the Company’s shares will amount to 75,555,227 shares. All shares subscribed for in the rights issue have been fully paid for. The subscribed shares will entitle to full dividend and to other shareholder rights in the Company as of the registration of the shares with the Trade Register, on or about 19 June 2012.
Amendments to Terms and Conditions of Stock Options
Due to the rights issue, the Company’s Board of Directors has today, 18 June 2012, confirmed the final amount of the amendment to the subscription price of the 2007 stock options in order to ensure equal treatment of stock option holders and shareholders, so that the subscription price per share is, taking into account the dividends paid during the years 2008-2012, for 2007B options EUR 4.547 and for 2007C options EUR 2.092.
The foregoing amendments to the terms and conditions of the stock options will be in force as of their registration in the Trade Register on or about 19 June 2012.
Technopolis Plc
Keith Silverang
CEO
tel. +358 40 566 7785
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www.technopolis.fi
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