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Citycon Oyj has continued preparations to the contemplated rights issue of approximately EUR 600 million ("Rights Issue"), through which it intends to partly finance the acquisition of the Norwegian shopping centre company Sektor Gruppen AS.
In connection with such preparations, Citycon’s two largest shareholders, Gazit-Globe Ltd. (42.8%) and CPP Investment Board Europe S.à r.l. (15.0%), a wholly owned subsidiary of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, have committed to additional undertakings to subscribe, subject to certain conditions, for further shares in the Rights Issue up to a maximum amount of EUR 50 million and EUR 30 million, respectively, in the event that any shares remain unsubscribed for after the expiry of the subscription period of the Rights Issue. The additional subscription undertaking by Gazit-Globe is also subject to Gazit-Globe's ownership not exceeding 50% of the shares and votes in Citycon through such subscription, in which case the number of shares to be subscribed for by Gazit-Globe pursuant to the additional undertaking would be reduced as necessary. Any such reduction would reduce CPP Investment Board Europe's additional subscription undertaking accordingly on a pro rata basis.
As Citycon has earlier announced, Gazit-Globe and CPP Investment Board Europe have already provided undertakings to subscribe, subject to certain customary conditions, for their pro rata share of the Rights Issue.
The Rights Issue is subject to the Extraordinary General Meeting of Citycon to be held on 15 June 2015 authorizing the Board of Directors to decide on the issuance of new shares.
Further information on the acquisition of Sektor Gruppen, the contemplated Rights Issue, and other related financing arrangements has been disclosed in Citycon's stock exchange releases of 25 May 2015 and 2 June 2015.
Helsinki, 4 June 2015
CITYCON OYJ
Board of Directors
Media enquiries:
Geelmuyden Kiese (advisor to Citycon)
Tel. +47 482 00 570
helge.lunde@gknordic.com
Investor enquiries:
Henrica Ginström
Tel. +358 50 554 4296
henrica.ginstrom@citycon.com
About Citycon
Citycon is a leading owner, manager and developer of urban grocery-anchored shopping centres in the Nordic and Baltic region, managing assets that total approximately EUR 3.4 billion and with market capitalisation of EUR 1.8 billion. Citycon is the No. 1 shopping centre owner in Finland and Estonia and among the market leaders in Sweden. Citycon has also established a foothold in Denmark. www.citycon.com
About Sektor
Sektor Gruppen AS is the second largest company in managing, developing and marketing of shopping centres in Norway. Sektor’s portfolio consists of 20 fully and majority-owned shopping centres, 4 minority-owned centres, 2 rented shopping centres and 8 managed shopping centres. With these 34 shopping centres, Sektor creates excellent shopping experiences for its customers in partnership with tenants. Sektor’s total portfolio under management has a gross leasable area of more than 600,000 sq.m. www.sektor.no
DISCLAIMER
This announcement is not an offer for sale of securities in the United States. Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Citycon does not intend to register any portion of the Rights Issue in the United States or to conduct a public offering of securities in the United States.
The Company has not authorized any offer to the public of securities in any Member State of the European Economic Area other than Finland. With respect to each Member State of the European Economic Area other than Finland and which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a “Relevant Member State”), no action has been undertaken or will be undertaken to make an offer to the public of securities requiring publication of a prospectus in any Relevant Member State. As a result, the securities may only be offered in Relevant Member States (a) to any legal entity which is a qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Directive; or (b) in any other circumstances falling within Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this paragraph, the expression an “offer of securities to the public” means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the securities to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to exercise, purchase or subscribe the securities, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State and the expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC (and amendments thereto, including the 2010 PD Amending Directive, to the extent implemented in the Relevant Member State), and includes any relevant implementing measure in the Relevant Member State and the expression “2010 PD Amending Directive” means Directive 2010/73/EU.
No public offer or invitation to acquire securities of Citycon is being made by or in connection with this release. Any such offer will be made solely by means of a prospectus once it has been approved by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority and published in accordance with the law, and any supplement thereto. This document is being distributed to and is only directed at (i) persons who are outside the United Kingdom or (ii) to investment professionals falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (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 in (i), (ii) and (iii) above together being referred to as “relevant persons”). Any invitation, offer or agreement to subscribe, purchase or otherwise acquire securities will be engaged in only with relevant persons. Any person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on this document or any of its contents.
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This announcement contains certain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect expected results and are based on certain key assumptions. Many factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or implied in any forward-looking statements. Due to these uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this announcement. Citycon disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this announcement, except as required pursuant to applicable law.