adesso SE

Share Issue/Capital Change • Dec 15, 2016

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Ad-hoc | 15 December 2016 09:40

adesso AG successfully completes capital increase against cash contributions

adesso AG / Key word(s): Capital Increase

15-Dec-2016 / 09:40 CET/CEST
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adesso AG successfully completes capital increase against cash
contributions

THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS NOTIFICATION IS NOT INTENDED FOR
PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
AUSTRALIA, CANADA OR JAPAN

adesso AG has improved its financial strength by increasing the share
capital of the company using parts of the authorized capital of the
company.

By carrying out the capital increase, the share capital of the company
increased from currently EUR 5,873,736.00 by EUR 293,687.00 to EUR
6,167,423.00 by issuing 293,687 new no-par-value shares via partial
utilisation of the existing authorized capital against contribution in cash
and exclusion of subscription rights of the existing shareholders.

The new shares were placed by way of an accelerated bookbuilding process
with institutional investors in Germany and abroad at a placement price of
EUR 42.70 per new share. The capital increase was highly oversubscribed.
The new shares have a full entitlement to a share in the profits beginning
with the financial year 2016. Application has been made for the new shares
to be traded on the regulated market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
(General Standard) expected from 20.12.2016. Through the capital increase,
and subject to the registration of the capital increase in the commercial
register, adesso AG is expected to receive gross proceeds of around EUR
12.5 million. With the proceeds from the placement of the new shares,
adesso AG plans to to finance further Company growth, in particular the
acquisition of further company shareholdings.

Contact:
Martin Möllmann
Manager Investor Relations
Tel.: +49 231 7000-7000
E-Mail: ir@adesso.de

Disclaimer

This notification does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation to
buy or subscribe securities of adesso AG. No public offer is being made,
nor is any prospectus being published, in connection with this transaction.
This publication is not intended for circulation or distribution, either
directly or indirectly, in or into the United States of America (including
its territories and possessions, a federal state or the District of
Columbia), and may not be distributed or forwarded to "U.S. persons" (as
defined in Regulation S of the applicable version of the U.S. Securities
Act of 1933 ['Securities Act']), or to publications with a general
distribution in the United States of America. This publication does not
constitute an offer or a solicitation to submit an offer to buy or acquire
securities in the United States of America, nor does it form part of such
an offer or solicitation. The securities are not and will not be registered
according to the provisions of the Securities Act, and may only be sold or
offered for sale in the United States of America with prior registration
under the provisions of the applicable version of the Securities Act or, in
the absence of a prior registration, only on the basis of an exemption.
adesso AG does not intend to make a public offer of shares in the United
States of America.

This publication does not constitute an offer to buy securities in the
United Kingdom, Canada, Japan or Australia.

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 Language:    English
 Company:     adesso AG
              Stockholmer Allee 20
              44269 Dortmund
              Germany
 Phone:       +49 231 7000-7000
 Fax:         +49 231 7000-1000
 E-mail:      ir@adesso.de
 Internet:    www.adesso-group.de
 ISIN:        DE000A0Z23Q5
 WKN:         A0Z23Q
 Listed:      Regulated Market in Frankfurt (General Standard);
              Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf,
              Hamburg, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange; London



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