Nanogate AG: Greenshoe fully exercised
Saarbrücken, 2. November 2006. Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) today exercised in full the greenshoe option given as part of the IPO of Nanogate AG (ISIN DE000A0JKHC9).
The Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) used the option to purchase up to 78,000 shares from the original shareholders at a price of €32.00 per share (greenshoe option). The free float of Nanogate AG thereby goes up from 27.63 to 31.73 percent.
A total of 603,000 shares were sold as part of the Nanogate AG IPO, of which 400,000 shares represented a capital increase, 125,000 shares were sold by existing shareholders and 78,000 shares originated from a fully exercised over-allotment option. The total transaction volume was around €19.3 million. The IPO was managed by Landesbank Baden-Württemberg as lead manager and sole bookrunner and the Frankfurt investment bank equinet Securities AG as co-lead manager.
Disclaimer:
This publication constitutes neither an offer to sell nor an invitation to buy securities. The shares in Nanogate AG (the "Shares") may not be offered or sold in the United States or to or for the account or benefit of "U.S. persons" (as such term is defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act")). No offer or sale of transferable securities is being made to the public outside Germany. The offer in Germany will be made exclusively by means of and on the basis of a prospectus published and available free of charge at Nanogate AG, Gewerbepark Eschbergerweg, D-66121 Saarbrücken, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Am Hauptbahnhof 2, D-70173 Stuttgart and equinet Securities AG, Gräfstraße 97, D-60487 Frankfurt and will additionally be published on the website of the company at www.nanogate.com/.
