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31 October 2007
Presseerklärungen - Deutsch
Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund II (MEIF II) through its subsidiary MEIF II Energie Beteiligungen GmbH & Co. KG today announced that it has entered into binding agreements with large Techem shareholders to acquire Techem shares which will take its ownership level to substantially more than 50 per cent of the company's share capital. As a legal consequence of such parallel purchases, the price offered by MEIF II Energie Beteiligungen GmbH & Co. KG in its public offer to all shareholders in Techem AG has increased to €60.00 per Techem share. Further details of the purchases will be published in the Offer Document.
MEIF II announced a supported all-cash offer for Techem AG on Monday 22 October 2007. On Friday 26 October 2007, MEIF II announced that the offer will be unconditional except for the merger clearance condition.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Alison Jefferis
Corporate Communication, Macquarie Group
Tel: +44 (0)20 7065 2335
Mob: +44 (0)79 1938 2958
alison.jefferis@macquarie.com
Christian Weyand
Brunswick Group, Frankfurt
Tel: +49 (0)69 2400 5511
Mob: +49 (0)17 2617 1677
cweyand@brunswickgroup.com
Important Information
This is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell shares in Techem AG, nor an offer to purchase or sell any other securities. The terms and conditions of the offer will be published in the offer document only after the permission of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungs-aufsicht, BaFin) has been obtained. Investors and holders of shares in Techem AG are strongly advised to read the relevant documents regarding the takeover offer to be published by MEIF II Energie Beteiligungen GmbH & Co. KG when they become available because they will contain important information. Investors and holders of shares in Techem AG will be able to review these documents, when they become available, at the web site www.macquarie.com/meif2energie. Upon publication, the offer document will be available free of charge at a specified location and will be mailed to investors and holders of shares in Techem AG free of charge upon request.
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