At 8.20 euros, the introduction price of “El. Venizelos” at the Athens Stock Exchange
The 8 billion euros exceeded the total demand expressed by international and Greek investors at the Offer Price of the shares for the “El. Venizelos” that were offered by TAIPED, marking an overcoverage of approximately 12 times, as announced by the Fund.
In particular, TAIPED” or the “Selling Shareholder”, following its announcement from 24/1/2024 regarding the offer of its 30% participation in the share capital of the company “Athens International Airport S.A.” (the “AIA” or the “Company”), corresponding to 90,000,000 existing common, registered, voting shares, with a nominal value of €1.00 each (the “Offered Shares”), in the context of the introduction of the total of 300,000 .000 common shares issued by the Company (the “Common Shares”) to be traded on the Regulated Market (Main Market) of the Athens Stock Exchange (“AX”), announces, in accordance with article 17 par. 2 and article 21 par. of the Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council, that its board of directors, at its meeting of 1/2/2024, decided, among other things, the following:
a) the disposal of all the Offered Shares, i.e. 90,000,000 common, registered, voting shares of AIA, including the 5,181,818 additional allocation shares (the “Additional Allocation Shares”), due to excessive demand.
b) the distribution of 12,200,000 Offered Shares in the Greek Public Offer, i.e. 13.56% of the Offered Shares, and
c) the distribution of 77,800,000 Offered Shares in the Institutional (International) Offer, i.e. 86.44% of the Offered Shares.
According to the same decision of TAIPED, the disposal price (the “Disposal Price”) for the Offered Shares of AIA, based on the results of the tender book process conducted from 1/25/2024 to 2/1/2024 both in the Greek Public Offer and in the Institutional (International) Offer, set at 8.20 euros per Offered Share, i.e. at the highest price of the disposal price range, decided by TAIPED of January 22, 2024.
The Offer Price in the Greek Public Offer and in the Institutional (International) Offer are identical, with the exception of the purchase price that AviAlliance will pay for the purchase of the Offered Shares through the Institutional (International) Offer, which amounts to 9.758 euros per Common Share, in accordance with the AviAlliance Cornerstone Agreement, which provides for the payment of a surcharge, as specifically stated in the Prospectus.
The total demand, expressed by international and Greek investors at the Offer Price, exceeded 8 billion euros, marking an overcoverage of approximately 12 times for the entire Combined Offer (including cornerstone investors), with more than 20,000 investor applications in the Greek Public Offer .
The detailed data of the allocation to the various categories of investors will be announced on 6/2/2024.
Source: Skai
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