30th Dec 2005 07:00
LogicaCMG PLC - Update statement on shareholding in UnilogNot for release, distribution or publication into or in the United States,Australia, Canada, Japan or the Republic of South Africa30 December 2005LogicaCMG UK's tender offer for Unilog closed on 28 December 2005. Publicationof the offer result is expected on 10 January 2006.Separate to the shares tendered as part of that offer, LogicaCMG UK has beenpurchasing shares during the offer period and on 29 December, thereby acquiringa total of 1.86 million shares of Unilog at an average price of ¢â€š¬72.9 pershare. As a result, LogicaCMG Group now holds 46.8% of Unilog's share capitaland this stake in Unilog will be consolidated using equity accounting in theGroup's 2005 consolidated financial statements.A further announcement of the Group's holding including the shares tendered inthe formal offer, will be made at the time of the tender result in January.Note: LogicaCMG UK is a wholly owned subsidiary of LogicaCMG plc.For further information please contact:LogicaCMG investor relations - Tony Richards 07733 260393Citigate Dewe Rogerson - Toby Mountford/Seb Hoyle 07710 356611 / 07799 476804BNP Paribas Paris - Daniel Weisslinger +33 1 43 16 94 82BNP Paribas London - Oliver Ellingham/Nicholas Groen 020 7595 2000BNP 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.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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