Public delisting acquisition offer (cash offer) of Atlantic BidCo GmbH to the shareholders of Aareal Bank AG

Details of the procedure for the exchange of Aareal Bank AG registered shares (ISIN DE000A37FT90) are described in Wertpapier-Mitteilungen (German gazette with securities announcements).

Exchange into “Aareal Bank 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 has been possible since 19 October 2023

up to and including 21 November 2023

The “Aareal Bank AG registered shares tendered for sale” (ISIN DE000A37FT33) 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 23 November 2023.

Registration of shareholders via re-registration

The shareholders of the “Aareal Bank AG registered shares tendered for sale” (ISIN DE000A37FT33) must be recorded in the company’s share register. Corresponding re-registrations (KVCU) may be entered by the custodian banks in CASCADE-RS since 19 October 2023.

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 Clearstream Banking Client Services. Within the scope of overall coordination, Clearstream Banking¹ 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 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.