Voluntary public takeover (cash offer) of GfBk Gesellschaft für Börsenkommunikation, Kulmbach to the shareholders of Heliad AG, Frankfurt am Main

Details of the procedure for the exchange of Heliad AG, Frankfurt am Main registered shares (ISIN DE0001218063) are described in Wertpapier-Mitteilungen (German gazette with securities announcements).

Exchange into “Heliad AG registered shares tendered for sale”

The transfer will take place via a securities transfer (CASCADE transaction: KVEE WE) by indicating “4 – Originalaktien in Anrechte” in the “TR” field. This transfer is only possible from Freier Meldebestand (FMB, unregistered positions). The shares must therefore be transferred in advance via a position transfer (CASCADE-RS transaction: KVEE BV) into unregistered positions.

The exchange is to be carried out in the period from

28 July 2026 to 14 August 2026 inclusive

The “Heliad AG registered shares tendered for sale” (ISIN DE000A41YH04) will be issued as registered securities. The certificates resulting from the exchange described above will be allocated to unregistered positions.

There is a follow-up transfer period up to 18 August 2026.

Registration of shareholders via re-registration

The shareholders of the “Heliad AG registered shares tendered for sale” (ISIN DE000A41YH04) must be recorded in the company’s share register. Corresponding re-registrations (KVCU) can be entered by the custodian banks in CASCADE-RS from 28 July 2026.

Information on submission planning

Due to the processing capacities in CASCADE-RS, submissions amounting to 10,000 re-registrations or more per transfer must be arranged in advance with  Client Services. Within the scope of overall coordination, Clearstream Europe AG¹ reserves the right to reject file transfers that have not been arranged in advance.

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1. This Announcement is published by Clearstream Europe AG (CEU), registered office at Mergenthalerallee 61, 65760 Eschborn, Germany, registered with the Commercial Register of the District Court in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, under number HRB 7500.