Prime Office REIT-AG
24.05.2013 17:00
Dissemination of a Voting Rights Announcement, transmitted by
DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG.
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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On May 23, 2013 our company received the following notification:
Notification pursuant to Section 27a German Securities Trading Act
Notifying persons/entities
1. Ironsides Partners Opportunity Fund GP LLC, Boston (MA), USA
2. Ironsides Partners LLC, Boston (MA), USA
3. RCK Holdings LLC, Boston (MA), USA
4. Robert Knapp, Boston (MA), USA
Issuer
Prime Office REIT-AG
HopfenstraÃe 4
80335 München
By voting rights notice dated May 7, 2013 the notifying persons/entities
listed above gave notice that, on May 2, 2013, their voting interest in
Prime Office REIT-AG exceeded the 10% threshold and on the same day
amounted to 11.57% (6,008,331 voting rights). By reference to these voting
rights notice, the notifying entities/persons inform Prime Office REIT-AG
pursuant to Section 27a German Securities Trading Act
(Wertpapierhandelsgesetz) about the following with respect to the voting
rights directly and indirectly held by them:
1. Aims underlying the pruchase oft he voting rights (Section 27a,
paragraph 1, sentence 3 Wertpapierhandelsgesetz):
a. The investment is aimed at generating trading profits.
b. In the period between May 3, 2013 and dthe time of this
notification, the notifying entities/persons have acquired further
voting rights in Prime Office REIT-AG. Their voting interest in
Prime Office REIT-AG at the time of this notification amounts to
12.43% (6,457,689 voting rights). The notifying entities/persons
may acquire further voting rights in Prime Office REIT-AG within
the next twelve months by means of a purchase or by other means, if
and to the extent interesting market opportunities arise.
c. The notifying entities/persons do not intend to exert an influence
on the appointment or removal of members of the management board or
supervisory board of Prime Office REIT-AG (other than the regular
exercise of voting rights in elections of members of the
supervisory board in shareholders' meetings).
d. The notifying entities/persons do not intend to achieve a material
change in Prime Office REIT AG's capital structure, including as
regards the ratio between own funds and external funds and the
dividend policy.
2. Origin of the funds used to purchase the voting rights (section 27a,
paragraph 1, sentence 4 Wertpapierhandelsgesetz):
The voting rights were not acquired by the use of external funds but by the
use of own funds provided by the notifying entities/persons and other
unaffiliated investors to the pooled investment vehicles that directly
acquired the voting rights in Prime Office REIT-AG.
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Language: English
Company: Prime Office REIT-AG
HopfenstraÃe 4
80335 München
Germany
Internet: www.prime-office.ag
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