UniCredit announces that the acceptance period of the mandatory tender offer for the shares of Bank BPH S.A. ("BPH") that it does not already indirectly own (through Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG, in turn controlled by Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG ("HVB")) ended on March 1, 2006 with no BPH shares tendered.
UniCredit had offered to pay a cash price of PLN 702.11 for each BPH share in compliance with the minimum price requirements set by applicable Polish law. As of March 1, 2006, the closing BPH share price was PLN 800.
With the conclusion of the mandatory tender offer UniCredit has complied with the requirement of applicable Polish law to launch a mandatory tender offer for BPH resulting from UniCredit's indirect acquisition - through the acquisition of control of HVB in November 2005 - of a shareholding of more than 66% of BPH's registered capital.
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ISIN IT0000064854
WKN: 850832
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