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• Issue of up to 10,000,000 new shares
• The capital increase will allow alstria to further pursue attractive opportunities for future growth
• Majority shareholder Captiva is offering up to 16,700,000 shares in the market, as well as up to 2,500,000 additional shares as an overallotment option
• Transaction to significantly increase alstria’s freefloat
HAMBURG, March 28, 2011 – alstria office REIT-AG, Hamburg (ISIN DE000A0LD2U1) increases its nominal share capital by up to EUR 10,000,000 from EUR 61,599,999 to up to EUR 71,599,999 by issuing up to 10,000,000 new shares against cash contributions. The new shares will be issued excluding the subscription rights of shareholders and by using a portion of alstria’s available authorised capital. The new shares will bear full dividend rights for the fiscal year 2010 where the management will be proposing EUR 0.44 per share at the company’s next General Assembly.
The new shares will be admitted to trading in the regulated market segment (Regulierter Markt – Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The new shares will be offered in a public offering in Germany and Luxembourg as well as in a private placement to qualified institutional investors in Germany and abroad via a bookbuilding process.
After the successful investment of the EUR 49 million gross proceeds raised in the capital increase completed in September 2010, alstria intends to further grow its portfolio along its investment guidelines and to take advantage of acquisition opportunities it sees in the market. The transaction will also envisage a secondary sale of up to 16,700,000 shares as well as up to 2,500,000 shares as an overallotment option from alstria’s majority shareholder Captiva. The Captiva placement is another important step to increase the free float and liquidity in the alstria office REIT-AG share.
"We were able to fully invest the proceeds from the latest September 2010 capital increase demonstrating our ability to identify and execute accretive acquisitions in the German commercial real estate markets. We are currently seeing an increasing number of attractive investment opportunities and are preparing to seize them," said Olivier Elamine, CEO of alstria office REIT-AG. "The capital increase in combination with the secondary offering by our majority shareholder will significantly increase alstria’s attractiveness to investors" added Alexander Dexne, CFO of alstria office REIT-AG.
The transaction is managed by J.P. Morgan and UBS as Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners.
Invitation to conference call on March 28, 2011 at 10 am CET
The alstria management board, CEO Olivier Elamine und CFO Alexander Dexne, will be available for a conference call today at 10.00 am (CET)
Please use the following dial-in numbers:
Germany: +49 (0) 6103 485 3000 or
UK: +44-207-153-2027
About alstria:
alstria office REIT-AG is an internally managed Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) focused on acquiring, owning and managing office real estate in Germany. alstria was founded in January 2006 and was converted into the first German REIT in October 2007. Its headquarters are in Hamburg. alstria office REIT-AG owns a diversified portfolio of properties across attractive German office real estate markets. Its current portfolio comprises 74 properties with an aggregate lettable space of approx. 821,000 sqm and is valued at approximately EUR 1.4 bn. alstria intends to expand its portfolio in the upcoming years as part of a sustainable growth strategy. The alstria office REIT-AG strategy is based on active asset and portfolio management as well as on establishing and maintaining good relationships with key tenants and decision makers. alstria focuses on long-term real estate value creation.
For further information, please see: www.alstria.com
Contact alstria office REIT-AG:
Ralf Dibbern
IR PR
Tel: +49 - 40 - 226 341 329
Email: rdibbern@alstria.de
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