Press Release
July 15, 2022 - Following the announcement earlier today from Saipem S.p.A. (the "Company") of the results of the underwritten rights issue (the "Rights Issue") of the Company, 1,389,600,910 of the 1,974,327,430 newly issued ordinary shares offered in the Rights Issue (the "New Shares") have been subscribed for by investors. The remaining 584,726,520 New Shares, representing approximately 29.6% of the total New Shares offered have been subscribed for by BNP PARIBAS, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit (as Joint Global Coordinators), ABN AMRO, Banca Akros - Gruppo Banco BPM, Banco Santander, Barclays, BPER, Goldman Sachs International, Société Générale and Stifel (as Joint Bookrunners) at the issue price of €1.013 per New Share according to their respective underwriting quotas pursuant to an underwriting agreement entered into on June 21, 2022.
BNP PARIBAS, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, UniCredit, ABN AMRO, Barclays and Stifel have entered into an agreement in order to achieve an orderly disposition of 396,425,617 shares or approximately 67.8% of the total number of shares not subscribed by investors.
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