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• 28.2 million shares placed in the market
• Greenshoe option fully exercised
• Significantly increased free float enhances alstria's investment profile
HAMBURG, April 06, 2011 - 28,200,000 shares of alstria office REIT-AG (ISIN DE000A0LD2U1) were successfully placed in the market, including 10,000,000 shares from the capital increase. As part of the offering the selling shareholder Captiva had granted the underwriting banks the option to overallot and acquire 2.2 million shares at the offer price in addition to the base transaction. With the exercise of the greenshoe option the stake of alstria office REIT-AG's former majority shareholder decreased below 25%. As a consequence alstria's EPRA index weighting will increase from 44% to 100% as of April 8, 2011.
On behalf of the underwriting banks J.P. Morgan exercised the greenshoe option. No stabilisation measures were applied.
About alstria:
alstria office REIT-AG (alstria) 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 approximately 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: http://www.alstria.com/
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