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Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • May 21, 2007

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Voting Rights Announcements | 21 May 2007 17:56

HCI Capital AG: Release according to article 26, section 1 WpHG [Securities Trading Act] with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution

HCI Capital AG / Release of an announcement according to Article 21 WpHG [German Securities Trading Act] (share)

Release of a Voting Rights announcement, transmitted by DGAP - a company of
EquityStory AG.
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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Please be aware that Schroders plc. is the parent company of Schroder
Administration Limited, which itself is the parent company of Schroder
Investment Management Limited. The registered address for all three
companies is London, United Kingdom.

We, Schroders plc. write to advise you, in accordance with sec. 21 para. 1
WpHG that our shareholding in HCI Capital AG, Bleichenbrücke 10, D-20354
Hamburg, Germany went below the 5% threshold and amounted to 4.99%
(equivalent to 1,198,081 shares of 24,000,000 total shares) on 15 May 2007.
These voting rights are in their entirety attributable to Schroders plc.
pursuant to sec. 22 para. 1 sent. 1 no. 6 and sent 2 and 3 WpHG.

We, Schroder Administration Limited, write to advise you, in accordance
with sec. 21 para. 1 WpHG that our shareholding in HCI Capital AG,
Bleichenbrücke 10, D-20354 Hamburg, Germany went below the 5% threshold and
amounted to 4.99% (equivalent to 1,198,081 shares of 24,000,000 total
shares) on 15 May 2007. These voting rights are in their entirety
attributable to Schroder Administration Limited pursuant to sec. 22 para. 1
sent. 1 no. 6 and sent 2 and 3 WpHG.

We, Schroder Investment Management Ltd. write to advise you, in accordance
with sec. 21 para. 1 WpHG that our shareholding in HCI Capital AG,
Bleichenbrücke 10, D-20354 Hamburg, Germany went below the 5% threshold and
amounted to 4.99% (equivalent to 1,198,081 shares of 24,000,000 total
shares) on 15 May 2007. These voting rights are in their entirety
attributable to Schroder Investment Management Ltd. pursuant to sec. 22
para. 1 sent. 1 no. 6 WpHG.

DGAP 21.05.2007

Language: English
Issuer: HCI Capital AG
Bleichenbrücke 10
20354 Hamburg Deutschland
www: www.hci.de

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