alstria office REIT-AG / Release of an announcement according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] (share) 07.01.2009 Release of a Voting Rights announcement --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 6th of January 2009 Morgan Stanley informed us as follows: Morgan Stanley Management Limited, London, UK, on 19 December 2008, has fallen below the threshold 5% of the voting rights of alstria office REIT-AG, Fuhlentwiete 12, 20355 Hamburg, Germany, and on that day holds 4.95% of the voting rights (=2,771,986 shares, each carrying one voting right) whereby these voting rights have to attributed pursuant to Section 22 para 1 sent.1 No.6 German Securities Trading Act; and each of the following holding entities of Morgan Stanley Investment Management Limited; (i) Morgan Stanley, Delaware, USA; (ii) Morgan Stanley International Holdings Inc., Delaware, USA; (iii) Morgan Stanley International Limited, London, UK; (iv) Morgan Stanley Group (Europe), London, UK; on 19 December 2008, has fallen below the threshold 5% of the voting rights of alstria office REIT-AG, Fuhlentwiete 12, Hamburg, Germany. Each of the holding entities mentioned under (ii) to (iv) on that day holds 4.95% of the voting rights (=2,771,986 shares, each carrying one voting right) of alstria office REIT-AG, Fuhlentwiete 12, 20355 Hamburg, Germany, whereby the aforementioned voting rights have to be attributed to each of the entities mentioned above under (ii) to (iv) pursuant to Section 22 para. 1 sent 1 No. 6, sent. 2 German Securities Trading Act. The holding entity mentioned under (i) on that day holds 4.96% (= 2,776,395 shares, each carrying one voting right) of alstria office REIT-AG, Fuhlentwiete 12, 20355 Hamburg, Germany, whereby 4.95% (=2,771,986 shares, each carrying one voting right) of the voting rights have to be attributed pursuant to Section 22 para. 1 sent 1 No. 6, sent. 2 German Securities Trading Act, and whereby 0.01% (=4,409 shares, each carrying one voting right)of the voting rights have to be attributed from other subsidiaries pursuant to Section 22 para. 1 sent 1 No. 1, German Securities Trading Act. This chain of entities is represented as follows (starting on the highest level): 1) Morgan Stanley (Delaware) 2) Morgan Stanley International Holdings Inc (Delaware) 3) Morgan Stanley International Limited (UK) 4) Morgan Stanley Group (Europe) (UK) 5) Morgan Stanley Investment Managment Limited (UK) DGAP 07.01.2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Issuer: alstria office REIT-AG Fuhlentwiete 12 20355 Hamburg Deutschland Internet: www.alstria.de End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DGAP-PVR: alstria office REIT-AG: Release according to Article 26, Section 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] with the objective of Europe-wide distribution
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