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Mar 23, 2006

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Corporate | 23 March 2006 11:31

bmp AG: bmp/CEEV sell 9.99% of shares in Bankier.pl S.A.

Corporate-news transmitted by DGAP – a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. —————————————————————————— bmp/CEEV sell 9.99% of shares in Bankier.pl S.A. On 22 March 2006, bmp AG (bmp), Berlin, and VC Fund Central & Eastern Europe Venture GmbH (CEEV), Berlin, which is managed by bmp, entered into the share sale agreement with Dom Maklerski IDM SA (IDM) pursuant to which each of them agreed to sell to IDM 283,500 shares in Bankier.pl S.A (Bankier), Poland’s leading finance portal, at a price of PLN 4.23 per share. The sale of shares to IDM will take place not later than on March 27, 2006. The jointly held stake in Bankier, in which bmp/CEEV, alongside MCI Management S.A. (MCI), has held shares since 2001, will be reduced to 51.64%. IDM has undertaken not to sell its shares in Bankier during the period of one year after first trading of Bankier´s shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange for the price lower than the issue price in the planned public offering of Bankier’s shares increased by 15%. IDM will be the lead book runner for the planned initial public offering of Bankier.pl S.A. scheduled for the second quarter of 2006. ‘This step demonstrates IDM’s confidence in the success of the IPO as well as the growth strategy pursued by the company’, Grzegorz Leszczynski, CEO of IDM stressed. ‘From our perspective, gaining IDM as a further investor in Bankier is a good starting point for broader co-operation between the companies too’, Jens Spyrka, responsible partner at bmp AG, said. About bmp AG: As an international private equity company, bmp directly invests own funds in venture capital holdings and, at the same time, acts as a fund manager for funds of funds and as a private equity advisor. Since 1999, bmp has made 12 investments in Central and Eastern Europe. 9 of the investments were in Polish companies. In addition to Bankier, bmp currently has investments in K2 Internet, Poland’s market leader in e-marketing, in ACR S.A., a Polish media agency focussing exclusively on online media, and in Nokaut, a Polish price comparison platform. bmp AG has had a local team in Warsaw since 1999 and has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2004. (c)DGAP 23.03.2006 ————————————————————————— language: English emitter: bmp AG Alt-Moabit 59-61 10555 Berlin Deutschland phone: +49 (0)30 20 305-0 fax: +49 (0)30 20 305-532 email: ir@bmp.com WWW: www.bmp.com ISIN: DE0003304200 WKN: 330420 indexes: stockmarkets: Amtlicher Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin-Bremen, Stuttgart, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf; Foreign Exchange(s) Warschau End of News DGAP News-Service —————————————————————————