Ahlers AG: Conversion to registered shares and inclusion in CASCADE-RS

The bearer shares of Ahlers AG (ISIN DE0005009708, DE0005009732) will be converted on

4 July 2018

into registered shares of Ahlers AG (ISIN DE0005009740) and included in CASCADE-RS.

Creation of holdings in registered shares

The creation of registered share positions as of the relevant conversion date will be carried out by Clearstream Banking¹ in the standard processing on 3 July 2018 for value date 4 July 2018 on the custody account balances and positions of pending stock exchange trades.

The positions in the registered shares of Ahlers AG are created in unregistered positions (FMB). Instructions in CASCADE-RS are possible from 4 July 2018.

Stock exchange trades and securities transfers in registered shares of Ahlers AG are first processed on 4 July 2018.

Pending instructions

Securities transfers against payment that are entered CASCADE will be converted. Securities transfers free of payment that are flagged with match status "J" are converted as well.

Note: To ensure a smooth settlement processing, customers must absolutely avoid a manual conversion, especially of matched instructions against payment. Clearstream Banking will convert securities transfers against payment into the ISIN of the registered shares automatically in the standard processing on 3 July 2018. Modifications and cancellations of instructions in the ISIN of bearer shares are possible at any time until the automatic conversion. It is recommended that instructions in the ISIN of the registered shares are not entered before 4 July 2018.

Securities transfers free of payment that are stored in CASCADE will be cancelled automatically and must be re-entered by the participants into registered shares, if required.

Registration of shareholders in the share register

The registration of shareholders in the share register of the issuer is implemented via the depository banks by re-registration in CASCADE-RS using the re-registration type "2" ("other not from purchase"). Information on the registration of shareholders in the share register is available in the "Guidelines for banks on entering shareholder data in CASCADE-RS" (Announcement RS137).

Share register

The share register is managed by HV AG.

Note about 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 Banking reserves the right to reject file transfers that have not been arranged in advance.

Reimbursement

For re-registrations that are transmitted from 4 July 2018 to 10 July 2018, Clearstream Banking charges a discounted price of EUR 0.30 per position. After this time period, Clearstream Banking customers will be reimbursed accordingly.

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1. This Announcement is published by Clearstream Banking AG (CBF), 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.