Moscow, November 28, 2007 - Yesterday the Board of Directors of OAO RBC Information Systems (MICEX, RTS: RBCI) established the price and date for the placement of 20,740,000 ordinary shares representing a 14.8% equity increase on a post-offering basis.
The shares will be offered at a price of RUR221 per ordinary share and placed simultaneously on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) and the Russian Trading Systems (RTS) on December 7, 2007. The offering price is the same for both existing and third-party shareholders. It is anticipated that shares of the new share issue will start trading on December 10, 2007.
In accordance with applicable Russian law, the newly issued shares have been made available to company's shareholders of record as of August 3, 2007 under preemptive rights, which were exercisable in the period of November 6 - 25, 2007. The shares, which will not be taken up by existing shareholders, will be allocated to a range of new investors.
UniCredit CA IB UK Limited and ATON International Limited are acting as joint lead managers and joint book-runners for the offering. The company intends to use the proceeds of the share offering to finance its media acquisitions.
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