Information about the admission and introduction of rights to Series I Shares in CCC S.A. to trading
(current report no 32/2020)
11.05.2020 /Issuer/
Legal basis:
- 17 Section 1 item 2 of the Ordinance of the Minister of Finance of 29 March 2018 on the current and periodic reports disclosed by securities issuers and on the equivalence of information disclosures required by the laws of non-EU member states.
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PLEASE SEE THE IMPORTANT NOTICES AT THE END OF THIS CURRENT REPORT.
With reference to current report No. 31/2020 of 8 May 2020, the Management Board of CCC S.A. with its registered office in Polkowice (the “Company”) announces that on 11 May 2020 it received information that the Management Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (the “WSE Management Board”) had adopted Resolution No. 352/2020 of 11 May 2020 on the admission and introduction to trading on the main market of WSE of rights to ordinary bearer Series I shares in the Company (the “Resolution”) pursuant to which the WSE Management Board had resolved to admit and introduce to trading on the main market 6,850,000 rights to ordinary bearer Series I shares in the Company with a nominal value of PLN 0.10 each (“RTS”) on 14 May 2020, provided that no later than on 14 May 2020 the National Depository for Securities (Krajowy Depozyt Papierów Wartościowych S.A.) registered the RTS and designated them with ISIN code PLCCC0000099. RTS will be listed in the continuous trading system under the abbreviated name “CCC-PDA” and the code “CCCA”.
IMPORTANT NOTICES
This current report was prepared in accordance with Article 17 Section 1 of the Regulation No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (market abuse regulation) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC and Article 56 Section 1 Item 2 of the Act of 29 July 2005 on Public Offerings, the Conditions for Introducing Financial Instruments to an Organized Trading System, and Public Companies.
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The Placing Shares have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) or with any securities regulatory authority of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States and may not be offered, sold, pledged, taken up, resold, transferred or delivered, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States absent registration under the Securities Act, except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and in compliance with any applicable securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States. The Placing Shares have not been approved, disapproved or recommended by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any state securities commission in the United States or any other U.S. regulatory authority, nor have any of the foregoing authorities passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Placing Shares. Subject to certain exceptions, the securities referred to herein may not be offered or sold in the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa or to, or for the account or benefit of, any national, resident or citizen of the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of South Africa.
No public offering of the Placing Shares is being made in the United States, United Kingdom or elsewhere outside Poland. All offers of the Placing Shares will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, as amended from time to time (including any relevant implementing measure in any member state, the “Prospectus Regulation”), from the requirement to produce a prospectus. This current report is being distributed to persons in the United Kingdom only in circumstances in which section 21(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended (“FSMA”) does not apply.
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