Kuoni Reisen : 10.05.2016 | Definitive notice of the end result of the public tender offer of Kiwi Holding IV S.à r.l. for all publicly held registered shares of Kuoni Travel Holding Ltd

10.05.2016

- Successful completion of the Offer with 87.2% of Kuoni B shares tendered
- Offer price expected to be paid on 19 May 2016

After the expiration of the additional acceptance period on 3 May 2016 at 4 p.m. CEST ('Additional Acceptance Period') of the public tender offer of Kiwi Holding IV S.à r.l. ('Kiwi') for all publicly held registered shares of Kuoni Travel Holding Ltd ('Kuoni') (the 'Offer'), Kiwi today has released the definitive notice of the end result. Kiwi has reported that until the end of the Additional Acceptance Period a total of 3,267,343 Kuoni B shares, corresponding to 87.2% of the 3,748,500 Kuoni B shares that are object of the Offer, have been tendered into the Offer.

Taking into account the 1,249,500 Kuoni A shares, the tendered Kuoni B shares and the 357,008 Kuoni B shares purchased by Kiwi and the persons acting in concert with Kiwi outside the Offer between 13 April 2016 and 9 May 2016, the participation of Kiwi and the persons acting in concert with Kiwi amounts to a total of 4,873,851 Kuoni shares (comprising 1,249,500 Kuoni A shares and 3,624,351 Kuoni B shares), corresponding to 97.52% of the voting rights and 96.90% of the share capital of Kuoni as of 9 May 2016.

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Except for conditions (e), (g), (h) and (i) of the Offer, which remain in force until the settlement of the Offer, all conditions according to Section A.7 (Conditions) of the offer prospectus are satisfied. The offer price for the Kuoni B shares which were validly tendered during the offer period and the Additional Acceptance Period is expected to be paid on 19 May 2016.

Kiwi has published the offer documents online on http://www.eqt.se/other/eqtbid/eqt-bid