Dubai Group
01/02/2008
Press release regarding Borse Dubai’s Offer for OMX
1 February 2008 – Borse Dubai Limited (“Borse Dubai”), through its wholly-owned Swedish subsidiary BD Stockholm AB, announced on 17 August 2007 an all-cash offer for all outstanding shares in OMX AB (publ) (“OMX”) and registered an offer document with the terms and conditions hereof with the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Sw. Finansinspektionen) (the “SFSA”) on 4 January 2008 (the “Offer”), (the “Offer Document”).
Yesterday OMX made public its Financial Report Year End 2007. As the report contains information that may affect the assessment of the Offer, Borse Dubai will issue a supplement to its Offer Document (the “Supplement”). Borse Dubai intends, before the end of the acceptance period on 5 February 2008, to register the Supplement with the SFSA and file it with the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority and the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority, respectively. The OMX shareholders will have a right to withdraw their acceptances of the Offer during five business days from the registration and publication of the Supplement. Borse Dubai will extend the acceptance period and postpone settlement accordingly.
Borse Dubai will make an announcement as soon as the Supplement has been registered with the SFSA and has been made public, which is expected to take place on 5 February.
The Offer document is available on www.borsedubai.com, www.avanza.se, www.evli.com or www.hfv.is. The offer document can also be obtained free of charge in printed version from Borse Dubai, Avanza Bank AB, Evli Bank Plc and H.F. Verðbréf hf. at the following addresses: Borse Dubai, Level 7, Precinct Building 5, Gate District, P.O. Box 506690, DIFC, Dubai, UAE; Avanza Bank AB, Klarabergsgatan 60, P.O. Box 1399, SE-111 93 Stockholm, Sweden; Evli Bank Plc, Aleksanterinkatu 19 A, P.O. Box 1081, FIN-00101 Helsinki, Finland; or H.F. Verðbréf hf., Skólavörðustíg 11, IS-101 Reykjavík, Iceland.