Helsinki, Finland, 2015-03-03 14:00 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ixonos Plc Stock Exchange Release 3 March 2015 at 15:00
IXONOS: IXONOS' Securities Note APPROVED
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The Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority approved on 3 March 2015, pursuant to the Finnish Securities Market Act, Ixonos Plc's ("Ixonos or the "Company") securities note (the "Securities Note") related to the Company's directed share issue announced on 10 February 2015 (“Rights Issue”). The prospectus relating to the Rights Issue comprises of the Securities Note and the registration document dated 16 May 2014 (the "Registration Document" and "Securities Note", jointly the "Prospectus"). The Registration Document contains information on the Company and its business and financial position. The Securities Note contains a summary and information on the Rights Issue. In addition, the Securities Note contains an update of certain information contained in the Registration Document.
The Securities Note is available during its validity in digital form on the Company's Web Page http://www.ixonos.com/fi/investor/shares/share-issues starting approximately from 3 March 2015. The Registration Document is available on the Company's Web Page http://www.ixonos.com/fi/investor/shares/share-issues. The Prospectus has not been printed, but Finnish printouts are available at the company's head office at Ixonos Plc, Hitsaajankatu 24, 00810 Helsinki, Finland. The Prospectus has been published only in Finnish; it is not available in other languages.
The shares subscribed for in the Rights Issue have initially been registered in the book-entry systems as interim shares. The interim shares will be combined with Ixonos' existing share class and admitted to public trading on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. approximately on 5 March 2015.
Ixonos PLC
Esa Harju
CEO
For more information, please contact:
Ixonos PLC , Esa Harju, CEO, puh. +358 40 844 3367, esa.harju@ixonos.com
Ixonos PLC, Mikael Nyberg , CFO, tel. +358 40 501 4401, mikael.nyberg@ixonos.com
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The issue, exercise and/or sale of securities in the offering are subject to specific legal or regulatory restrictions in certain jurisdictions. The Company 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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