Μandatory public tender offer to the shareholders of UNISYSTEMS S.A. to acquire their common, registered, voting, shares announcement of results
According to article 23 of Law 3461/2006 on public tender offers (the "Law"), "Info-Quest S.A." (the "Offeror") announces the following:
1. On July 20, 2007 the Offeror filed a mandatory public tender offer (the "Tender Offer"), to acquire all common, registered, voting shares (the "Shares") of UNISYSTEMS S.A. (the "Company") that he did not, directly or indirectly, hold on the date of filing of the Tender Offer, and which, as of the same date, amounted to 14,907,055 Shares representing 38.71% of the Company's share capital and voting rights. On July 31, 2007 the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Capital Markets Commission approved the information circular of the Offeror, in relation to the Tender Offer (the "Information Circular").
2. The acceptance period of the Tender Offer (the "Acceptance Period") commenced on Friday, August 3, 2007 and ended on Friday, September 14, 2007.
3. On July 20, 2007, the Offeror held 23,605,245 Shares representing 61.29% of the Company's share capital and voting rights.
4. During the Acceptance Period, 2,454,176 Shares or 6.37% of the Company's share capital and voting rights, were offered by shareholders accepting the Tender Offer.
5. From the date of filing of the Tender Offer and until the end of the Acceptance Period of the Tender Offer, the Offeror has also acquired, via the Athens Exchange, 8,615,149 Shares, or 22.37% of the Company's share capital and voting rights.
6. Pursuant to the off-exchange transfer of the Shares which were offered during the Acceptance Period, and including the Shares which were acquired via the Athens Exchange until the end of the Acceptance Period, the Offeror will hold 34,674,570 Shares, or 90.04% of the Company's share capital and voting rights.
7. The transfer of shares that were offered validly during the Tender Offer and the related registration in the Greek dematerialized securities system (Σ.Α.Τ.) will take place on Monday September 24, 2007, six (6) working days from the conclusion of the Tender Offer, according to par. 2.21 of the Information Circular. The consideration will be paid on September 24, 2007 to the shareholders who have accepted the Tender Offer, according to the instructions they have indicated in the relevant acceptance forms.
8. Taking in consideration that following the completion of the tender offer Info-Quest's participation in UNISYSTEMS S.A. exceeds 90% of the existing voting rights of the company, Info-Quest has the right, within three (3) month period provided for in Law 3461/2006, to request the transfer of all the remaining shares of UNISYSTEMS S.A. at a price equal to euro 2.10 per share.
9. At the same time according to the legislation in force, Info-Quest is obliged to acquire through on-the-exchange transactions all the shares of UNISYSTEMS S.A. that will be offered to it within a period of three (3) months from today, against payment of the offer price of euro 2.10 per share.