29th Jun 2007 07:35
Groupe Eurotunnel SA29 June 2007 29 June 2007 Immediate release Groupe Eurotunnel SA : Successful implementation of the financial restructuring Listing on 2 July 2007 The settlement of the exchange tender offer and the financial restructuring tookplace on 28 June 2007 under the aegis of the Commissioners for the execution ofthe Safeguard Plan. This vast and complex international operation, carefully organised by FreshfieldBruckaus Deringer France, legal advisers to Groupe Eurotunnel SA, was remarkablyimplemented by the Caisse des Depots et Consignation closely with BNP SecuritiesServices, our registrars and Lucid Issuer Services in relation to bondholders. The first admission of the Groupe Eurotunnel SA shares and warrants to listingand trading on Eurolist by EuronextTM, as well as of the notes redeemable inGroupe Eurotunnel SA shares issued by Groupe Eurotunnel SA's UK subsidiary,Eurotunnel Group UK plc, will take place on Monday 2 July 2007. The shares inGroupe Eurotunnel SA and the notes redeemable in GET SA shares issued by EGPwill be admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange for the first time onthe same date. Groupe Eurotunnel SA being the holder, as at 28 June 2007, of over 90% of theEurotunnel SA/PLC Units, will today request from the UK Listing Authority thecancellation of the listing of the Eurotunnel Units in London. The shareholdersconcerned are informed that the required notice period of 20 business daysstarts today and that the delisting should occur around 27 July 2007. A similarrequest for delisting will be made in respect of the listing of the Units inBrussels. The names of Eurotunnel SA and Eurotunnel PLC, now subsidiaries of GroupeEurotunnel SA, are to be changed to TNU SA and TNU PLC respectively. Jacques Gounon, Chairman and Chief Executive of Groupe Eurotunnel SA, declared: We have successfully turned a new page. Groupe Eurotunnel SA has now taken itsplace amongst other large European businesses with an expanding future. No GET 08/2007 For media enquiries contact on + 44 (0) 1303 284491Email: [email protected] For investor enquiries contact Michael Schuller on + 44 (0) 1303 288 749.Email: [email protected] www.groupe-eurotunnel.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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