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July 8, 2015
Public Exchange Offer completed successfully
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The Autorité des marchés financiers (the “AMF”) published today the interim results of the public exchange offer initiated by Holcim Ltd for the shares of Lafarge S.A. (the “Offer”).
As of July 7, 2015, a total of 252,230,673 shares, representing 87.46 percent of the share capital and at least 81.47 percent of the voting rights[1] of Lafarge S.A. have been tendered to the Offer. The success of the Offer was subject to the condition that a minimum acceptance threshold of 2/3 of Lafarge’s share capital or voting rights be reached by Holcim Ltd. Final results shall be published by the AMF on July 9, 2015.
The result reflects the confidence of shareholders in the future company. Both companies are very pleased with this positive outcome as it paves the way towards completion of the merger.
The offer document relating to the Offer is available on the website of the AMF (www.amf-france.org) and of Holcim Ltd (www.holcim.com), and is also available free of charge upon request at:
Holcim Ltd
Zürcherstrasse 156
8645 Jona
Switzerland
Société Générale
Corporate Finance
75886 Paris Cedex 18
France
UBS Securities France S.A.
69 Boulevard Haussmann
75008 Paris
France
As disclosed in the documentation, the settlement-delivery of the new shares to shareholders having tendered their Lafarge S.A. shares is scheduled as from July 13, 2015.
[1] Based on the total number of shares outstanding as of July 7, 2015: 288,401,848 shares representing no more than 309,601,782 voting rights. The number of voting rights is an estimate taking only partially into account the loss of double voting rights attached to tendered shares.