Aktia Pankki Oyj - Company Announcement

Aktia Bank plc: Supplement of merger prospectus

Helsinki, Finland, 2013-04-08 13:30 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 

NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR
INTO AUSTRALIA, CANADA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH AFRICA OR THE UNITED STATES OR
ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION WOULD
BE UNLAWFUL. 

Aktia Bank plc
Stock Exchange Release
8.4.2013 at 2.30 pm


Aktia Bank plc and Aktia plc supplement the merger prospectus approved by the
Financial Supervisory Authority on 15 March 2013 and published on 18 March
2013. The merger prospectus is supplemented with information published in a
stock exchange release on 5 April 2013 regarding the termination of a
shareholders' agreement concerning Aktia plc. The Financial Supervisory
Authority has today approved the supplement to the merger prospectus. 

The supplement document is available in Swedish and Finnish as of today on the
website of Aktia and Aktia Bank at the address
http://www.aktia.fi/sv/sulautuminen-aktia-oyj and at Aktia's and Aktia Bank's
head office, Mannerheimintie 14 A, 00100 Helsinki. 

AKTIA BANK PLC
Stefan Björkman, Deputy Managing Director, +358 10 247 6595
Mia Bengts, Legal Counsel, tel. +358 10 247 6348

Distribution:
Nasdaq OMX Helsinki Oy
Central mass media
www.aktia.fi

DISCLAIMER

This stock exchange release is not an offer for shares in Aktia Bank. A
prospectus relating to the merger referred to in this stock exchange release
and the subsequent listing of the shares in Aktia Bank at NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
Ltd has been prepared and filed with the Finnish Financial Supervisory
Authority. 

The information contained herein is not for publication or distribution,
directly or indirectly, in or into, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, South
Africa or the United States. The distribution of this stock exchange release in
certain other jurisdictions may be restricted by law and persons into whose
possession it or any part of it comes should inform themselves about and
observe any such restrictions. Neither Aktia nor Aktia Bank assumes any
responsibility in the event there is a violation by any person of such
restrictions. 

The information in this stock exchange release 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 require preparation of further prospectuses or other
offer documentation, or be unlawful prior to registration, exemption from
registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such
jurisdiction. 

This stock exchange release has not been approved by any regulatory authority.
This stock exchange release is not a prospectus and shareholders should not
base their decision on the merger referred to in this stock exchange release
except on the basis of information provided in the prospectus to be published
by Aktia and Aktia Bank. 

United States

This stock exchange release does not constitute or form part of an offer or
solicitation of an offer to purchase securities in the United States. Neither
Aktia's nor Aktia Bank's securities have been or will be registered under the
U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations
thereunder (the “Securities Act”), and may not be offered or sold in the United
States absent registration under the Securities Act or an exemption therefrom.
No public offering of Aktia's or Aktia Bank's shares is being made or will be
made in the United States. 

European Economic Area

Neither Aktia nor Aktia Bank has 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 (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. 

United Kingdom

This communication is directed only at (i) persons who are outside the United
Kingdom or (ii) persons who have professional experience in matters relating to
investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets
Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 and (iii) other persons to whom it
may lawfully be communicated, falling within Article 49(2) of the Financial
Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (all such
persons together being referred to as “Relevant Persons”). Any investment
activity to which this stock exchange release relates will only be available to
and will only be engaged with, Relevant Persons. Any person who is not a
Relevant Person should not act or rely on this stock exchange release or any of
its contents.