ABB Schweiz AG, Baden ("ABB") has published today the final
interim result of its voluntary public tender offer for all
publicly held registered shares of Newave Energy Holding SA
("Newave").
At the end of the offer period on 30 January 2012, 04.00
pm, 1,469,630 registered shares in Newave were tendered to
ABB, representing 87.12% of all registered shares in
Newave, to which the offer relates to. In addition, on 11
December 2011, ABB had signed individual share purchase
agreements with three shareholders in Newave relating to a
total of 1,400,101 registered shares in Newave (which have
not been consummated by the end of the offer period yet).
Therefore, including these 1,400,101 registered shares in
Newave as well as 99,603 registered shares held by Newave
or its subsidiaries and according to the final interim
result, ABB's participation in Newave amounts to 95.02%.
With this participation, the condition of the offer
prospectus regarding the minimum acceptance threshold of
66.7% is fulfilled.
Furthermore, ABB announced that the offer can still be
accepted in the additional acceptance period of 10 trading
days, which will run from 6 February 2012 until 17 February
2012, 04.00 pm CET. The settlement of the tender is
scheduled for 27 February 2012, subject to all offer
conditions having been satisfied. For detailed information
please refer to the official publication of the final
interim result of ABB's tender offer, as published in Neue
Zürcher Zeitung and Le Temps on 3 February 2012.
This release is neither an offer to purchase nor a
solicitation of an offer to sell securities. Shareholders
of Newave are urged to read the offer documents including
the offer restrictions, which are available at www.abb.com/newaveoffer.
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