Share Issue/Capital Change • May 12, 2015
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Multiconsult IPO: Update on the status of the bookbuilding
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MULTICONSULT IPO: UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF THE
BOOKBUILDING
12 May 2015; Multiconsult ASA (Multiconsult, ticker
MULTI)
Reference is made to the initial public offering of
ordinary shares (the Offering) of Multiconsult ASA
(Multiconsult, the Company, OSE ticker: MULTI).
The Joint Bookrunners in the Offering have received
orders such that the offering is oversubscribed
throughout the indicative price range on the maximum
potential deal size including the greenshoe.
For further queries, please contact:
Mitra Hagen Negård, Head of Investor Relations
+47 95 79 36 31
ABOUT MULTICONSULT ASA
Multiconsult is a leading Norwegian
multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm, with
more than 1,700 employees and 30 offices in Norway
and abroad. Multiconsult's home market is Norway,
representing 92% of 2014 net operating revenues. The
Company focuses on six market areas; Buildings and
Properties (33%), Transport and Infrastructure
(31%), Renewable Energy (16%), Oil and Gas (12%),
Industry (4%) and Environment and Natural resources
(4%). The Company has an operating history that
spans more than a century, with the inception of
Norsk Vandbygningskontor in 1908. In 2014,
Multiconsult completed more than 8,000 projects for
approx. 3,700 different customers.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
This announcement is not and does not form a part of
any offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to
purchase, any securities of the Company.
Copies of this announcement are not being made and
may not be distributed or sent into the United
States, Australia, Canada, Japan or any other
jurisdiction in which such distribution would be
unlawful or would require registration or other
measures.
The securities referred to in this announcement have
not been and will not be registered under the U.S.
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the «Securities
Act»), and accordingly may not be offered or sold in
the United States absent registration or an
applicable exemption from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act and in accordance
with applicable U.S. state securities laws. The
Company does not intend to register any part of the
offering in the United States or to conduct a public
offering of securities in the United States. Any
sale in the United States of the securities
mentioned in this announcement will be made solely
to "qualified institutional buyers" as defined in
Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
Any offering of the securities referred to in this
announcement will be made by means of a prospectus.
This announcement is not a prospectus for the
purposes of Directive 2003/71/EC (as amended,
together with any applicable implementing measures
in any Member State, the «Prospectus Directive»).
Investors should not subscribe for any securities
referred to in this announcement except on the basis
of information contained in a prospectus.
In any EEA Member State that has implemented the
Prospectus Directive, this communication is only
addressed to and is only directed at qualified
investors in that Member State within the meaning of
the Prospectus Directive.
This communication is only being distributed to and
is only directed at persons in the United Kingdom
that are (i) investment professionals falling within
Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets
Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as
amended (the «Order») or (ii) high net worth
entities, and other persons to whom this
announcement may lawfully be communicated, falling
within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all
such persons together being referred to as «relevant
persons»). This communication must not be acted on
or relied on by persons who are not relevant
persons. Any investment or investment activity to
which this communication relates is available only
to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with
relevant persons. Persons distributing this
communication must satisfy themselves that it is
lawful to do so.
Matters discussed in this announcement may
constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-
looking statements are statements that are not
historical facts and may be identified by words such
as «believe», «expect», «anticipate», "strategy", «in
tends», «estimate», «will», «may», «continue», «shoul
d» and similar expressions. The forward-looking
statements in this release are based upon various
assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon
further assumptions. Although the Company believes
that these assumptions were reasonable when made,
these assumptions are inherently subject to
significant known and unknown risks, uncertainties,
contingencies and other important factors which are
difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond
its control. Actual events may differ significantly
from any anticipated development due to a number of
factors, including without limitation, changes in
public sector investment levels, changes in the the
general economic, political and market conditions in
the Norwegian market, the Company's ability to
attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel,
changes in the Company's ability to engage in
commercially acceptable acquisitions and strategic
investments, and changes in laws and regulation and
the potential impact of legal proceedings and
actions. Such risks, uncertainties, contingencies
and other important factors could cause actual
events to differ materially from the expectations
expressed or implied in this release by such forward-
looking statements. The Company does not guarantee
that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking
statements in this presentation are free from errors
nor does it accept any responsibility for the future
accuracy of the opinions expressed in this
presentation or any obligation to update or revise
the statements in this presentation to reflect
subsequent events. You should not place undue
reliance on the forward-looking statements in this
document.
The information, opinions and forward-looking
statements contained in this announcement speak only
as at its date, and are subject to change without
notice. The Company does not undertake any
obligation to review, update, confirm, or to release
publicly any revisions to any forward-looking
statements to reflect events that occur or
circumstances that arise in relation to the content
of this announcement.
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