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22 June 2010
Results of the subscription with preferential rights to 12,071,043 new shares with VVPR strip to be issued in the framework of a capital increase with extralegal preferential rights for the existing shareholders 91.84% take up of preferential rights offering Elia Launch of scrip private placement • • •
11,085,617 new shares with VVPR Strips subscribed for through the exercise of Preferential Rights Private placement of 3,941,704 scrips to take place on 22 June 2010 Trading of the Shares of Elia temporarily suspended on demand of the company
Elia System Operator SA/NV announces that, in connection with its 1 for 4 rights offering of 12,071,043 new shares at an issue price of EUR 24.80 per share, it has received subscriptions for 11,085,617 new shares through the exercise of rights. This represents a take up of approximately 91.84 % of the offering size of EUR 299.4 million. Publi-T, Publipart and Arco Group have exercised their rights and subscribed to new shares for an amount of respectively EUR 135.8 million, EUR 7.6 million and EUR 31.1 million. The subscription period for the rights ended on Friday 18 June 2010. The 3,941,704 rights which have not been exercised during the subscription period for the rights will be offered for sale as scrips in the context of a private placement reserved for institutional investors taking place on 22 June 2010. Investors purchasing scrips will irrevocably undertake to exercise the scrips and subscribe to one new share per four scrips at the issue price of EUR 24.80 per share in the framework of a private placement reserved to institutional investors. This will take place on 22 June 2010. The trading of the shares of Elia System Operator SA/NV on Euronext Brussels will be temporarily suspended during the scrip private placement. Trading in the shares will resume after the results of placement are announced. The results of the scrip private placement and the final results of the public offering for subscription will, in principle be announced via a press release on 22 June 2010 and will be published in the financial press on Wednesday, 23 June 2010. The payment of the issue price, the realisation of the capital increase and the listing of the new shares and VVPR strips on Euronext Brussels are expected to take place on Friday, 25 June 2010. For more information, please contact Media: Lise Mulpas +32 2 546 73 75 Eva Suls +32 2 546 73 78
+32 478 65 28 90 +32 477 48 80 09
lise.mulpas@elia.be eva.suls@elia.be
Investor Relations: Bert Maes +32 2 546 72 39
+32 472 40 69 97
bert.maes@elia.be