REG - Jefferies Int Ltd. - Private placement in flatex AG completed

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03/07/2020 08:20

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Jefferies International Limited.
  
03 July 2020
  
 

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Private placement of existing shares in flatex AG to institutional investors completed
 
Frankfurt/Main, 03 July 2020
The core shareholders of flatex AG (WKN: FTG111, ISIN: DE000FTG1111, Ticker: FTK.GR), GfBk Gesellschaft für Börsenkommunikation mbH ('GfBk') and Heliad Equity Partners GmbH & Co. KGaA ('Heliad'), sold in total 2,300,000 shares in flatex (approximately 11.7% of all outstanding shares) in a private placement to institutional investors. The shares have been placed at a price of EUR 43.00 per share, resulting in gross proceeds for the selling shareholders of c. EUR 99 million.
 
In this context, Bernd Förtsch, directly and indirectly via GfBk, sold 1,800,000 shares. Heliad sold 0.5m shares. Following the placement, the free float in flatex AG will represent more than 70% of outstanding shares. Mr. Förtsch will hold after the private placement directly as well as indirectly via GfBk around 18.6%, Heliad will continue to hold around 7.3%.
 
The selling shareholders have agreed to a 90-day lock-up period on all remaining shares.
 
Jefferies acted as Sole Global Coordinator and Mainfirst as Co-Bookrunner in connection with the placement.
 
The information was submitted for publication at 08:00 CET on 03 July 2020 by Jefferies GmbH on behalf of Bernd Förtsch, GfBk Gesellschaft für Börsenkommunikation mbH ('GfBk') and Heliad Equity Partners GmbH & Co. KGaA.

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