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Magyar Telekom announces change in shareholder voting rights

Budapest, December 12, 2011 17:45

Magyar Telekom (Reuters: MTEL.BU and Bloomberg: MTELEKOM HB), the leading Hungarian telecommunications service provider, announces that Government Debt Management Agency Private Company Limited by Shares (Államadósság Kezelő Központ Zártkörűen Működő Részvénytársaság) has notified the Company that as a result of its share disposal on December 9, 2011 the number of Magyar Telekom shares owned by Pension Reform and Debt Reduction Fund (Nyugdíjreform és Adósságcsökkentő Alap) decreased to 51,887,763 and thus its voting rights in Magyar Telekom Plc. decreased to 4.9761%.

Standard Form for major holding notification
(for Voting rights attached to shares, and for Financial instruments)

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: Magyar Telekom Plc. 
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
       [ X] an acquisition or disposal of voting rights
       [  ] an acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
       [  ] an event changing the breakdown of voting rights
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: Pension Reform and Debt Reduction Fund (Nyugdíjreform és Adósságcsökkentő Alap)
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: December 9, 2011
6. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: 5%
7. Notified details:

A) Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type
of shares
(if possible
using the
ISIN CODE)
Situation previous
to the Triggering
transaction
Resulting situation after
the triggering transaction
Number
of
shares
Number
of voting
rights
Number
of
shares
Number of
voting rights
% of voting
rights
Direct Direct Indirect Direct Indirect
Magyar Telekom
ordinary share
HU0000073507
above the 5% threshold above the 5% threshold 51,887,763 51,887,763   4.9761%  
SUBTOTAL A
(based on
aggregate
voting rights)
             
B) Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of
financial
instrument
Expiration
Date
Exercise/Conversion
Period/Date
Number of voting
rights that may be
acquired if the
instrument is
exercised/converted
% of voting rights
N/A        
    SUBTOTAL B
(in relation to all
expiration dates)
   
Total (A+B) number of voting rights %of voting rights
  51,887,763 4.9761%



8. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: -
9. In case of proxy voting: -
10. Additional information:

  • before the current transaction the acquisition of shares representing voting rights happened in the frame of an asset reallocation in accordance with Section 1 of Act CLIV of 2010 on the Pension Fund Reform and Debt Reduction Fund and the modifications of certain acts relating to the free choice of pension funds (“Act on Pension Fund Reform”), while the current transaction was a spot transaction based on Section 7 f) of the Act on Pension Fund Reform and based on Section 7 of the Government Decree no. 87/2011. (V.31.) about the implementation of the above Act (protection of the asset value belonging to the Fund, and managing and reducing risks related to the asset holdings);
  • in accordance with the Act on Pension Fund Reform the fund manager of the Pension Reform and Debt Reduction Fund (Nyugdíjreform és Adósságcsökkentő Alap) is Government Debt Management Agency Private Company Limited by Shares (Államadósság Kezelő Központ Zártkörűen Működő Részvénytársaság) (registered seat: H-1027 Budapest, Csalogány utca 9-11).



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