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AS Tallink Grupp, Stock Exchange Release,
13.12.2005
Registration of the share capital increase
On 30.11.2005 the extraordinary general meeting of aktsiaselts Tallink Grupp decided to increase the share capital of the company to 1,365,000,000 kroons and to issue 26,500,000 new shares. The above-referred share capital increase by 265,000,000 kroons was registered with the Commercial Register on 13.12.2005 and the relevant information was submitted to the Tallinn Stock Exchange to commence the listing of the 26,500,000 new shares.
In order to simplify the allocation and the trading of the shares of aktsiaselts Tallink Grupp after the initial public offering that took place in the period from 21.11.2005 to 01.12.2005 aktsiaselts Infortar lent 26,500,000 existing shares to Citigroup Global Markets Limited, the lead manager of the offering, and in return received from the lead manager of the offering 26,500,000 new shares that the lead manager subscribed in the course of the new share issue. As of the registration of the share capital increase with the Commercial Register on 13.12.2005 aktsiaselts Infortar obtained all the rights deriving from these new shares. Therefore, as at 13.12.2005, after the registration with the Commercial Register, aktsiaselts Infortar owns 58,084,808 shares of aktsiaselts Tallink Grupp representing 42.55% of the share capital of aktsiaselts Tallink Grupp and of the votes represented by the shares.
Additional information:
Peter Roose
Investor Relations Manager
AS Tallink Grupp
tel.: + 372 6 409 800
www.tallink.com
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