Further to the drawdown, announced on July 5, 2011, by SCOR of EUR 75,000,000 on the contingent capital facility placed at its disposal by UBS, UBS has exercised the number of warrants required for the issuance and subscription by it of new SCOR shares in an aggregate amount of EUR 75,000,000 and has informed SCOR that it has placed the corresponding shares with investors in a private placement.

Accordingly, SCOR will issue 4,250,962 new ordinary shares on July 11, 2011, at an issuance price of EUR 17.643 per share (being the exercise price of the warrants). These shares will be subscribed for in full by UBS, admitted to trading on the Euronext Paris regulated market immediately following their issuance and will be fully fungible with the existing SCOR ordinary shares.

The percentage interest of a shareholder with 1% of the share capital^[1]:
#_ftn1 prior to the issuance is now 0.978%.

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No public offering

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