HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft / Share Buyback 02.10.2014 11:30 Dissemination of a Post-admission Duties announcement, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft: Disclosure pursuant to Art. 4 para. 2 of the Regulation (EC) No. 2273/2003 The Executive Board of HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft decided on October 1, 2014 to acquire in the time period from October 7, 2014 through no later than December 31, 2015 up to 6,916,000 shares of HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft (ISIN DE0006070006), which is equivalent to approx. 10 % of the Company's share capital, subject to the following conditions. The Executive Board hereby makes use of the authorization of the Annual General Meeting of HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft of May 7, 2014 to launch a share buyback programme for shares in the amount of up to 10% of the company's share capital until May 6, 2019. The shares that are bought back may be used for any purpose set forth in the authorization resolution of the Annual General Meeting of May 7, 2014. The share buyback will be carried out for account of the Company by a bank mandated by the Company. HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft reserves the right to terminate the mandate of the bank and to transfer it to another bank. The bank shall make its decisions regarding the date of the acquisition of the shares and the respective volume of the shares to be bought back independently of and without influence by the Company. The shares shall be repurchased on stock exchanges at the most favourable terms for HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft. The purchase price per share (not including incidental acquisition costs) may not be more than 10% above or below the arithmetic mean of the prices of no-par value shares of HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft in the closing auction in XETRA trading (or an equivalent successor system) on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange during the last ten stock market trading days preceding the conclusion of the obligating transaction. In the performance of such activities, the bank is obliged to observe the trading conditions set forth in Art. 5 of the Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2273/2003 of 22 December 2003 (EC REG). Accordingly the bank must not pay a purchase price which exceeds the higher of price of the last independent trade at the respective stock exchange and the highest current independent bid on the stock exchange on which the purchase is carried out. The bank must not acquire more than 25% of the average daily volume of shares in one day on the stock exchange on which the purchase is carried out. The average volume of shares is based on the average daily volume of shares traded in the twenty trading days preceding the date of purchase. The share buyback may be suspended and resumed at any time to the extent permissible under the relevant legal provisions. The transactions will be disclosed in compliance with the requirements of Art. 4 (4) EC REG no later than at the end of the seventh trading day following the date of execution of such transactions. Furthermore, HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft will regularly report on the progress of the share buyback at www.hochtief.de. Essen, October 2, 2014 HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft The Executive Board 02.10.2014 The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft Opernplatz 2 45128 Essen Germany Internet: www.hochtief.de End of Announcement DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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