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Telefonica SAAnnouncement

13/03/2017 18:10

RNS Number : 3294Z
Telefonica SA
13 March 2017
TELEFNICA, S.A. (herein after "Telefnica") as provided in article 228 of the Spanish Stock Market Act (Ley del Mercado de Valores), hereby reports the following
SIGNIFICANT EVENT
Telefnica has entered today into a swap agreement with Koninklijke KPN NV (hereinafter, KPN) to deliver 72.0 million of its treasury shares (representing 1.43% of its share capital), in exchange for 178.5 million shares of its subsidiary Telefnica Deutschland Holding AG, representing 6.0% of the share capital of the latter. The exchange ratio has been determined based on the average of the volume weighted average price (VWAP) of the respective shares during the last 5 trading sessions.
The execution of this agreement is not subject to any conditions and settlement is expected to take place tomorrow.
As a result of this agreement, Telefnica increases from 63.2% to 69.2% its shareholding in Telefonica Deutschland, one of the Group's main cash flow growth contributors, increasing, as a result, its share in dividends distributed by Telefonica Deutschland.
Under this agreement, KPN has committed, among other obligations, to comply with certain restrictions which, in case of sale of the aforementioned Telefnica shares, would ensure an orderly sale of such shares. In this regard, and pursuant to article 531 of the Spanish Corporations Act, the literal transcription of clause 2.4 of the agreement signed between Telefonica and KPN is included as appendix to this significant event.
Madrid, March 13, 2017
LITERAL TRANSCRIPTION OF CLAUSE 2.4 OF THE AGREEMENT SIGNED BETWEEN TELEFONICA AND KPN 
2.4. KPN's Commitments. KPN acknowledges it is in the interests of KPN and Telefnica to execute any sale of the Telefnica Swap Shares in an orderly manner.
2.4.1 KPN commits: 
a) Not to Sell any Telefnica Swap Shares in any private transaction to any entity which to the best knowledge of KPN is a telecommunication service provider or an Affiliate thereof. For the purposes of this Article 2.4.1 (a), to the best knowledge of KPN means the knowledge of KPN after due and careful due diligence.
b) Not to Sell any Telefnica Swap Shares during seven (7) calendar days prior to and including any date on which Telefnica is expected to publish its quarterly results in accordance with the financial calendar published on Telefnica's website.
c) Not to Sell on any single day and on any market where the Telefnica Shares are traded an aggregate amount of Telefnica Swap Shares in excess of 15% of the Relevant Total Daily Trading Volume on such day ("Daily Volume Limit"). Within such Daily Volume Limit, a maximum of 25% of the Daily Volume Limit may be sold in that day's closing auction and a maximum of 30,000 Telefnica Swap Shares may be sold in that day's open auction.
d) Not to Sell, directly or indirectly through any other entity, any Telefnica Swap Shares via an Accelerated Bookbuilt Transaction.
2.4.2 Notwithstanding paragraph 2.4.1. (c) above, KPN will be entitled to sell Telefnica Swap Shares in certain Off-Exchange Transactions always provided that: (x) the price of the Telefnica Swap Shares under any such transaction is as close as possible to, or higher than, the daily VWAP at the time of such transaction, but in no event shall the price of such transactions be lower than the relevant VWAP minus 0.15%, and (y) the total amount of Telefnica Swap Shares sold per day in such Off-Exchange Transactions in aggregate does not exceed the higher of (i) 20% of the Relevant Total Daily Trading Volume on such date, and (ii) 20% of the lowest Relevant Total Daily Trading Volume on any single day during a period of 5 consecutive trading days ending on (and including) the trading day immediately preceding the relevant day. 


For the purposes of this Article 2.4, the following terms shall have the meanings described below:
"Accelerated Bookbuilt Transaction" means a publicly announced offering of Telefnica Swap Shares conducted by way of an accelerated bookbuilt offering to institutional investors conducted by a financial intermediary on KPN's behalf, whether by way of a backstopped transaction, bought deal or a conventional best efforts bookbuilt offering.
"Not to Sell" means not to, directly or indirectly, offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, lend or otherwise transfer or dispose of (including, but not limited to, through any type of transactions regarding derivatives, options, swaps, futures, collaterals, securities lending or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of): 
(a) shares in Telefnica,
(b) securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares in Telefnica,
(c) options, rights or warrants to purchase shares in Telefnica, or
(d) participation certificates, depositary or other receipt instruments, rights or entitlement representing shares in Telefnica,
irrespective whether any of those transactions is to be settled by delivery of shares in Telefnica or such other securities, in cash or otherwise.
"Off-Exchange Transactions" means the sale of Telefnica Swap Shares via bilateral transactions or over the counter sales.
"Relevant Total Daily Trading Volume" means the aggregate volume of shares traded under ticker <TEF SM> determined from Bloomberg page <TEF SM Equity HP> with the Market field set to "VWAP Vol" for volume, as at market close on the relevant day. For the avoidance of doubt, the aggregate volume defined herein comprises all on-exchange <TEF SM> market volumes excluding block trades and cross trades.
"VWAP" for Telefnica means the volume weighted average market price determined from the Bloomberg page <TEF SM Equity HP> with the Market field set to "VWAP" (Weighted Average Line) for price. 

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