Pursuant to Article 12, Paragraph 4 of CVM Instruction 358 dated January 3, 2002, as amended by CVM Instruction 449 dated March 16, 2007, Estácio Participações S.A. ('Estácio' or the 'Company') announces that the Company received from BlackRock, Inc. ('BlackRock'), a communication informing that BlackRock held, on April 25, 2016, 15,738,566 ordinary shares issued by the Company, corresponding to 4.97% of the Company´s total capital, and 89,700 derivatives referenced to common shares, representing approximately 0.02% of the Company´s total capital.

Rio de Janeiro, April 28, 2016.

Virgílio Deloy Capobianco Gibbon
Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer

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