Finnlines - Company Announcement

FINAL RESULTS OF FINNLINES’ RIGHTS ISSUE

Helsinki, Finland, 2013-06-05 10:30 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Finnlines  Plc    
  Stock Exchange Release    5 June 2013 



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INTO THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, HONG KONG, SOUTH AFRICA, SINGAPORE
OR JAPAN OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE WOULD
BE UNLAWFUL. 



FINAL RESULTS OF FINNLINES' RIGHTS ISSUE



All offered 4,682,104 shares were subscribed for in the Finnlines Oyj's
(“Finnlines”) rights issue completed on 31 May 2013. A total of 4,008,441
shares, representing approximately 85.6 per cent of the offered shares, were
subscribed in the primary subscription. In the secondary subscription 7 451
shares, representing 0.2 percent of the offered shares, were subscribed for.
The remaining 666,212 shares, approximately 14.2 per cent of the offered
shares, were subscribed for based on the underwriting commitment. The gross
proceeds raised by Finnlines in the rights issue were approximately EUR 28.8
million. 



The Board of Directors of Finnlines has today approved all primary
subscriptions made in the rights issue between 17 May 2013 and 31 May 2013, and
decided to approve the secondary subscriptions made by Finnlines shareholders
or other investors and the subscription based on the underwriting commitment in
accordance with the terms and conditions of the rights issue. 



Shares subscribed for in the primary subscription have been subject to public
trading on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. since 3 June 2013 as interim shares. All
shares subscribed for in the rights issue will be registered in the Finnish
Trade Register on or about 6 June 2013 after which the interim shares will be
combined with Finnlines' existing class of shares. The new shares will be
subject to public trading on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. together with the other
Finnlines shares starting on or about 7 June 2013. 



Following the registration of the new shares in the Finnish Trade Register, the
number of Finnlines' shares will amount to 51,503,141 shares. All shares
subscribed for in the rights issue have been fully paid for. 



Pohjola Corporate Finance Ltd is the lead manager of the rights issue.





Helsinki, 5 June 2013



FINNLINES PLC

Seija Turunen
CFO



Tapani Voionmaa
Group General Counsel



Additional information

Seija Turunen, CFO, tel. +385 50 565 4403





Distribution

NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Oy

Main media

www.finnlines.com



Finnlines is one of the biggest shipping operators of ro-ro and passenger
services in Northern Europe. The Company is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd
and is a part of the Italian Grimaldi Group, one of the world's largest
operators of the Motorways of the Sea in Europe for both passengers and
freight. The Company's sea transports are concentrated in the Baltic and the
North Sea. In addition to cargo, the Company transports passengers on board of
13 ro-pax vessels between five countries and ten ports. The Company has
subsidiaries or sales offices in Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Sweden,
Denmark, Luxembourg and Poland and a representative office in Russia. In
addition to sea transportation, the Company provides port services in Finland
in Helsinki, Turku and Kotka, which are the most important seaports in Finland. 



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directly or indirectly, in or into the United States, Canada, Australia, Hong
Kong, South Africa, Singapore or Japan. These written materials do not
constitute an offer of securities for sale in the United States, nor may the
securities be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an
exemption from registration as provided in the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder. The Company does not intend
to register any portion of the offering in the United States or to conduct a
public offering of securities in the United States. 



The issue, exercise and/or sale of securities in the offering are subject to
specific legal or regulatory restrictions in certain jurisdictions. The Company
and Pohjola Corporate Finance Oy assume no responsibility in the event there is
a violation by any person of such restrictions. 



The information contained herein shall not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the securities
referred to herein in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or
sale would be unlawful prior to registration, exemption from registration or
qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Investors
must neither accept any offer for, nor acquire, any securities to which this
document refers, unless they do so on the basis of the information contained in
the applicable prospectus published or offering circular distributed by the
Company. 



The Company has not authorized any offer to the public of securities in any
Member State of the European Economic Area other than Finland. With respect to
each Member State of the European Economic Area other than Finland and which
has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a “Relevant Member State”), no
action has been undertaken or will be undertaken to make an offer to the public
of securities requiring publication of a prospectus in any Relevant Member
State. As a result, the securities may only be offered in Relevant Member
States (a) to any legal entity which is a qualified investor as defined in the
Prospectus Directive; or (b) in any other circumstances falling within Article
3(2) of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this paragraph, the
expression an “offer of securities to the public” means the communication in
any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer
and the securities to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to
exercise, purchase or subscribe the securities, as the same may be varied in
that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that
Member State and the expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive
2003/71/EC (and amendments thereto, including the 2010 PD Amending Directive,
to the extent implemented in the Relevant Member State), and includes any
relevant implementing measure in the Relevant Member State and the expression
“2010 PD Amending Directive” means Directive 2010/73/EU. 



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