DGAP-Adhoc: UMS United Medical Systems International AG: Sale of all shares in United Medical Systems (DE), Inc., Massachusetts, USA

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Ad-hoc-Announcement

14 August 2014

Sale of all shares in United Medical Systems (DE), Inc., Massachusetts, USA

Today the Company has entered into a stock purchase agreement with UMS
Acquisitions Holdings, Inc., Delaware, USA (Purchaser) regarding the sale
of all shares in United Medical Systems (DE), Inc., Westborough,
Massachusetts, USA, a fully owned subsidiary of the Company. The purchase
price for the transfer of the shares amounts to EUR 56,400,000.00 and is
payable upon transfer of the shares to the Purchaser; customary transaction
expenses will be deducted hereof.

Since the shares in UMS USA represent substantially all of the Company's
assets, the stock purchase agreement is subject to the approval of the
Company's shareholders' meeting pursuant to Sec. 179a AktG. For that
reason, the management board will call without delay an extraordinary
shareholders' meeting on which the stock purchase agreement - after an
explanation by the management board - will be put to a vote. The invitation
to the EGM will be published together with the agenda within the next days.

Major shareholders of the Company, namely (i) Thomas J.C. Matzen GmbH,
Hamburg, (ii) Jorgen Madsen, Bolton (Massachusetts, USA), (iii) MaWoBi
Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg, (iv) Marina Bello-Biedermann,
Hamburg and (v) Norbert and Bärbel Heske, Türkenfeld, who in all hold about
38 % of the shares of the Company, have on the initiative of and vis-à-vis
the Company (in each case individually) expressed their intent to support
this transaction and to vote in favor of the sale of UMS USA to the
Purchaser on the upcoming EGM.


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Language:     English
Company:      UMS United Medical Systems International AG
              Borsteler Chaussee 53
              22453 Hamburg
              Germany
Phone:        +49 (0)40 - 500 177 - 00
Fax:          +49 (0)40 - 500 177 - 77
E-mail:       investor@umsag.com
Internet:     www.umsag.com
ISIN:         DE0005493654
WKN:          549365
Listed:       Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
              in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München, Stuttgart
 
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