SAMPO PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 3 April 2009 at 6.15 pm ANNOUNCEMENT OF TERMS FOR SAMPO PLC'S OFFER TO EXCHANGE NOTES Sampo Oyj ("Sampo") announced on 26 March 2009 its invitation to holders of the EUR 600,000,000 4.625 per cent Callable Subordinated Notes due 2014 (ISIN: XS0190155480) (the "Existing Notes") to tender their Existing Notes in exchange for new senior notes (the "New Notes") to be issued under Sampo's Euro Medium Term Note Programme, (the "Exchange Offer"). In connection with the Exchange Offer, Sampo announces the following terms: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Aggregate amount of New Notes: | EUR 750,000,000 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | (i) Aggregate amount of New Notes | EUR 562,181,000 | | created in exchange for Existing | | | Notes: | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | (ii) Aggregate amount of | EUR 187,819,000 | | Additional New Notes: | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Outstanding amount of Existing | EUR 36,597,000 | | Notes after completed Exchange | | | Offer | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Maturity Date: | 10 April 2012 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | New Issue Price: | 100.00 per cent. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | New Issue Coupon: | 6.339 per cent. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | (i) New Issue Spread: | 4.00 per cent. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | (ii) New Issue Mid-Swap Rate: | 2.339 per cent. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAMPO PLC Jarmo Salonen Head of Investor Relations and Group Communications Further information: Vice President, Credit Investments, Ville Talasmäki, tel. +358 10 516 0765 DISTRIBUTION: NASDAQ OMX Helsinki The principal media Financial Supervisory Authority www.sampo.com