21st Nov 2005 07:00
Not for release, distribution or publication into or in the United States,Australia, Canada, Japan or the Republic of South Africa21 November 2005LogicaCMG plcPublication of Tender OfferFurther to the announcement dated 19 September 2005 regarding the proposedAcquisition of Unilog S.A., France's sixth largest IT services provider, for atotal consideration of ¢â€š¬930.3 million, LogicaCMG today announces that theFrench Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoritƒ© des Marchƒ© Financiers) hasapproved the Tender Offer document (Note d'Information) in France and that itwill be published in France tomorrow.The Tender Offer will open on 23 November 2005 and will remain open for 25business days and therefore will close on 28 December 2005. The results of theTender Offer will be published on 10 January 2006 and settlement of the TenderOffer is expected on or around 13 January 2006.A copy of the Tender Offer document (together with an unofficial Englishtranslation of the same which has not been approved by the French Authority forthe Financial Markets) will be available on:www.LogicaCMG.comas soon as practicable after this announcement.For further information please contact:LogicaCMG media relations - Carolyn Esser 020 7446 1786LogicaCMG investor relations - Tony Richards/Frances Gibbons 020 7446 4341BNP Paribas Paris - Daniel Weisslinger +33 1 43 16 94 82BNP PARIBAS, which is regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial ServicesAuthority, is acting as joint financial adviser and underwriter to LogicaCMGand is acting for no-one else in connection with the Acquisition or the RightsIssue and will not be responsible to anyone other than LogicaCMG for providingthe protections afforded to customers of BNP PARIBAS nor for providing advicein connection with the Acquisition or the Rights Issue or the contents of thisannouncement or any other matter referred to therein.Merrill Lynch International, which is regulated in the United Kingdom by theFinancial Services Authority, is acting as joint financial adviser, jointsponsor, joint corporate broker and underwriter to LogicaCMG and is acting forno-one else in connection with the Acquisition or the Rights Issue and will notbe responsible to anyone other than LogicaCMG for providing the protectionsafforded to customers of Merrill Lynch International nor for providing advicein connection with the Acquisition or the Rights Issue or the contents of thisannouncement or any other matter referred to herein.Hoare Govett, which is regulated in the United Kingdom by the FinancialServices Authority, is acting as joint sponsor, joint corporate broker andunderwriter to LogicaCMG and is acting for no-one else in connection with theAcquisition or the Rights Issue and will not be responsible to anyone otherthan LogicaCMG for providing the protections afforded to customers of HoareGovett nor for providing advice in connection with the Acquisition or theRights Issue or the contents of this announcement or any other matter referredto herein.The release, publication or distribution of this announcement in certainjurisdictions may be restricted by law and therefore persons in suchjurisdictions into which this announcement is released, published ordistributed should inform themselves about and observe such restrictions.No offer, invitation or inducement to acquire shares or other securities inLogicaCMG is being made by or in connection with this announcement. Any offer,invitation or inducement to acquire shares in LogicaCMG will be made solely bymeans of the prospectus, published on 19 September 2005, as updated by thesupplementary prospectus published on 13 October 2005, and any decision tokeep, buy or sell shares in LogicaCMG should be made solely on the basis of theinformation contained in such document(s).This announcement is not for distribution or transmission, directly orindirectly, in or into the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan or theRepublic of South Africa and does not constitute, or form part of, an offer tosell or the solicitation of an offer to subscribe for or buy and any securities('Securities'), nor the solicitation of any vote or approval in anyjurisdiction, nor shall there be any sale, issue or transfer of the Securitiesreferred to in this announcement in any jurisdiction in contravention ofapplicable law.The Securities have not been and will not be registered under the US SecuritiesAct of 1933, as amended (the 'Securities Act') and may not be offered or soldin the United States unless registered under the Securities Act or an exemptionfrom such registration is available. No public offering of Securities of theCompany is being made in the United States.ENDLOGICACMG PLCRelated Shares:
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