Commerzbank AG — Capital/Financing Update 2011

Mar 8, 2011

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Ad-hoc | 8 March 2011 10:29

Commerzbank AG:

Commerzbank AG / Key word(s): Issue of Debt

08.03.2011 10:29

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The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ANY UNITED STATES OR ITALIAN PERSON OR TO ANY

PERSON RESIDENT AND/OR LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES OR THE REPUBLIC OF

ITALY.

Commerzbank plans an invitation to offer for exchange any and all of two

outstanding subordinated notes

Commerzbank plans to make an invitation to holders of two of its previously

issued subordinated note issues with an aggregate principal amount of EUR

2,000,000,000 to offer any and all of their notes in exchange for new euro

denominated subordinated notes to be due in 2019. The new subordinated

notes will be issued by Commerzbank. Holders of the EUR 1,250,000,000

Subordinated Fixed to Floating Rate Notes of 2006/2016 (ISIN DE000CB07899)

and the EUR 750,000,000 Subordinated Fixed to Floating Rate Notes of

2007/2017(ISIN DE000CB8AUX7) may offer their notes to Commerzbank for

exchange during the exchange period, which begins on March 8, 2011 and is

expected to end on March 17, 2011.

Disclaimer

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR

INTO OR TO ANY PERSON LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

ITS TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS (INCLUDING PUERTO RICO, THE U.S. VIRGIN

ISLANDS, GUAM, AMERICAN SAMOA, WAKE ISLAND AND THE NORTHERN MARIANA

ISLANDS), ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR THE DISTRICT OF

COLUMBIA (THE ‘UNITED STATES’). THE OFFER REFERENCED HEREIN IS NOT BEING

MADE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, OR BY USE OF

THE MAILS, OR BY ANY MEANS OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF INTERSTATE OR FOREIGN

COMMERCE, OR OF ANY FACILITY OF A NATIONAL SECURITIES EXCHANGE, OF THE

UNITED STATES AND THE OFFER CANNOT BE ACCEPTED BY ANY SUCH USE, MEANS,

INSTRUMENTALITY OR FACILITY OR FROM WITHIN THE UNITED STATES.

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ANY PERSON LOCATED IN THE REPUBLIC OF ITALY.

This release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an

offer to purchase any securities in the United States. The securities

referred to herein (including the Notes and the shares of Commerzbank have

not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933,

as amended (the ‘Securities Act’) or the laws of any state within the U.S.,

and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to or for the

account or benefit of U.S. persons, except in a transaction not subject to,

or pursuant to an applicable exemption from, the registration requirements

of the Securities Act or any state securities laws. This release and the

information contained herein may not be distributed or sent into the United

States, or in any other jurisdiction in which offers or sales of the

securities described herein would be prohibited by applicable laws and

should not be distributed to United States persons or publications with a

general circulation in the United States. No offering of the Notes is being

made in the United States.

Contact:

Commerzbank AG

Group Communications

Tel.: +49 69 136 – 22830

mediarelations@commerzbank.com

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Language: English

Company: Commerzbank AG

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          60261 Frankfurt am Main

          Deutschland

Phone: +49 (069) 136 20

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E-mail: ir@commerzbank.com

Internet: www.commerzbank.de

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Listed: Regulierter Markt in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt (Prime

          Standard), Hamburg, Hannover, München, Stuttgart; Terminbörse

          EUREX; London, SIX

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