Helsinki, Finland, 2013-05-15 15:10 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Finnlines Plc Stock Exchange Release II 15 May, 2013
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FINNLINES’ PROSPECTUS APPROVED BY THE FINNISH FINANCIAL SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY
The Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority has today on 15 May 2013 approved Finnlines Oyj’s (the “Company”) prospectus dated on 15 May 2013 (“Prospectus”) related to the Company's share issue (”Share Issue”) announced on 7 May 2013, in which Finnlines offers a maximum of 4,682,104 new shares (“New Shares”) in accordance with the shareholders' pre-emptive subscription rights.
The Finnish language Prospectus is available on the Company’s website www.finnlines.com in an electronic form starting from 16 May 2013 and in printed form in Finnlines headquarters, Porkkalankatu 20 A, 00180 Helsinki, Finland and in NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Stock Exchange, Fabianinkatu 14, 00100 Helsinki during the Share Issue. In addition, the Prospectus is available from approximately 17 May until the listing of the New Shares approximately 7 June 2013 at Pohjola Corporate Finance web page www.op.fi/merkinta.
Helsinki, 15 May 2013
FINNLINES PLC
Seija Turunen
CFO
Tapani Voionmaa
Group General Counsel
Additional information
Seija Turunen, CFO, tel. +385 50 565 4403
Distribution
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Oy
Main media
www.finnlines.com
Finnlines is one of the biggest shipping operators of ro-ro and passenger services in Northern Europe. The Company is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd and is a part of the Italian Grimaldi Group, one of the world’s largest operators of the Motorways of the Sea in Europe for both passengers and freight. The Company’s sea transports are concentrated in the Baltic and the North Sea. In addition to cargo, the Company transports passengers on board of 13 ro-pax vessels between five countries and ten ports. The Company has subsidiaries or sales offices in Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg and Poland and a representative office in Russia. In addition to sea transportation, the Company provides port services in Finland in Helsinki, Turku and Kotka, which are the most important seaports in Finland.
DISCLAIMER
The information contained herein is not for publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Singapore or Japan. These written materials do not constitute an offer of securities for sale in the United States, nor may the securities be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration as provided in the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder. The Company does not intend to register any portion of the offering in the United States or to conduct a public offering of securities in the United States.
The issue, exercise and/or sale of securities in the offering are subject to specific legal or regulatory restrictions in certain jurisdictions. The Company and Pohjola Corporate Finance Oy assume no responsibility in the event there is a violation by any person of such restrictions.
The information contained herein shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the securities referred to herein in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration, exemption from registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Investors must neither accept any offer for, nor acquire, any securities to which this document refers, unless they do so on the basis of the information contained in the applicable prospectus published or offering circular distributed by the Company.
The Company has not authorized any offer to the public of securities in any Member State of the European Economic Area other than Finland. With respect to each Member State of the European Economic Area other than Finland and which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a “Relevant Member State”), no action has been undertaken or will be undertaken to make an offer to the public of securities requiring publication of a prospectus in any Relevant Member State. As a result, the securities may only be offered in Relevant Member States (a) to any legal entity which is a qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Directive; or (b) in any other circumstances falling within Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this paragraph, the expression an “offer of securities to the public” means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the securities to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to exercise, purchase or subscribe the securities, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State and the expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC (and amendments thereto, including the 2010 PD Amending Directive, to the extent implemented in the Relevant Member State), and includes any relevant implementing measure in the Relevant Member State and the expression “2010 PD Amending Directive” means Directive 2010/73/EU.
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