S IMMO AG – exchange offer for S IMMO INVEST participating certificates

Corporate news

The Management Board of S IMMO AG (Bloomberg: SPI:AV, Reuters: SIAG.VI; ISIN: AT0000652250) has, with the authorisation of the Supervisory Board, subject to the approval of the prospectus by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA), decided to invite the holders of the 2,307,747 S IMMO INVEST participating certificates (ISIN: AT0000795737 and ISIN: AT0000630694) listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange to offer S IMMO AG their participating certificates in exchange for a 7-year fixed term bond with a fixed coupon of 4.5% at the exchange rate of EUR 78.88 per certificate. The offer is open from 30 April 2014 until 19 May 2014, unless previously closed or extended. S IMMO AG will accept such offers only up to a maximum bond volume of EUR 90m. Application for listing of the bond on the Second Regulated Market of the Vienna Stock Exchange is planned.

Further information about the exchange offer will be available on S IMMO AG’s website at www.simmoag.at/umtauschangebot.

Ernst Vejdovszky, Chairman of S IMMO AG’s Management Board, comments: “Participation capital has become a rare and unusual form of financing. We are offering our holders of participating certificates an attractive, fixed interest yield for a fixed period of seven years. Both the holders of the participating certificates and S IMMO AG can benefit from the greater planning certainty of future cash flows.”

 


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