Copenhagen, 2014-12-03 08:00 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
No. 30/2014
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THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL.
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT DOES 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 OR INTO ANY JURISDICTION WHERE SUCH OFFER, SOLICITATION OR SALE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL PRIOR TO REGISTRATION OR QUALIFICATION UNDER THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY SUCH JURISDICTION.
Sale of 25,000,000 existing shares in
ISS A/S by FS Invest II S.à r.l.
With reference to announcements no. 28 and no. 29 of 2 December 2014, ISS A/S (ISS.CO, ISS DC), one of the world's leading facility services companies, has just been informed that FS Invest II S.à r.l. has sold 25,000,000 existing shares in ISS A/S, equivalent to 13.5% of the share capital and voting rights in ISS A/S to institutional investors pursuant to the accelerated bookbuilt offering at a price of DKK 162 per share (the “Transaction”). FS Invest II S.à r.l. is a wholly owned subsidiary of FS Invest S.à r.l. (FS Invest S.à r.l. is owned and controlled by the EQT Funds (funds known as EQT III and EQT IV together with parallel co-investment vehicles or schemes managed by EQT, being the general partners and managers of the EQT branded funds) and certain funds advised by affiliates of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.).
Following settlement of the Transaction, FS Invest II S.à r.l.’s holding of shares in ISS A/S will constitute 35,782,993 shares of a total nominal value of DKK 35,782,993 corresponding to 19.3% of the share capital and 19.3% of the voting rights in ISS A/S.
ISS A/S has purchased 125,000 shares in the bookbuilt offering to be held in treasury for purposes of covering its obligations under existing share-based incentive plans.
ISS A/S will not receive any proceeds from the Transaction.
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THE SECURITIES DESCRIBED HEREIN HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES ABSENT REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS.
WITH RESPECT TO THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA WHICH HAVE IMPLEMENTED DIRECTIVE 2003/71/EC AS AMENDED (TOGETHER WITH ANY APPLICABLE IMPLEMENTING MEASURES IN ANY MEMBER STATE, 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 THE SECURITIES REFERRED TO HEREIN REQUIRING A PUBLICATION OF A PROSPECTUS IN ANY RELEVANT MEMBER STATE. AS A RESULT, THESE SECURITIES MAY ONLY BE OFFERED OR SOLD IN ANY RELEVANT MEMBER STATE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION UNDER THE PROSPECTUS DIRECTIVE.
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IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, THIS NOTICE IS DIRECTED ONLY AT, QUALIFIED INVESTORS (I) WHO ARE PERSONS HAVING PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN MATTERS RELATING TO INVESTMENTS WHO FALL WITHIN THE DEFINITION OF "INVESTMENT PROFESSIONALS" IN ARTICLE 19(5) OF THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS ACT 2000 (FINANCIAL PROMOTION) ORDER 2005, AS AMENDED (THE "ORDER"), OR (II) PERSONS WHO ARE HIGH NET WORTH ENTITIES FALLING WITHIN ARTICLE 49(2) OF THE ORDER, AND OTHER PERSONS TO WHOM IT MAY LAWFULLY BE COMMUNICATED (“RELEVANT PERSONS”). UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD PERSONS WHO ARE NOT RELEVANT PERSONS RELY OR ACT UPON THE CONTENTS OF THIS NOTICE. ANY INVESTMENT OR INVESTMENT ACTIVITY TO WHICH THIS NOTICE RELATES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO, AND WILL BE ENGAGED ONLY WITH, RELEVANT PERSONS.
IN DENMARK, THIS NOTICE IS DIRECTED ONLY AT PERSONS WHO ARE QUALIFIED INVESTORS.
ISS A/S, ISIN DK 0060542181,
ISS Global A/S, ISIN XS0206714247
ISIN XS1145526585, ISIN XS1145526825
About ISS
The ISS Group was founded in Copenhagen in 1901 and has grown to become one of the world’s leading Facility Services companies. ISS offers a wide range of services such as: Cleaning, Catering, Security, Property and Support Services as well as Facility Management. Global revenue amounted to DKK 78.5 billion in 2013 and ISS has approximately 515,000 employees and local operations in more than 50 countries across Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America and Pacific, serving thousands of both public and private sector customers. For more information on the ISS Group, visit www.issworld.com.
