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2007-11-21 09:39:08 CET 2007-11-21 09:39:08 CET REGULATED INFORMATION Finnair Oyj - Decisions of extraordinary general meetingDECISIONS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING OF FINNAIR PLCNot for release, publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States, Canada, Australia or Japan. FINNAIR PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 21 NOVEMBER 2007 DECISIONS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING OF FINNAIR PLC The Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting of Finnair Plc was held today in Helsinki. The Shareholders' Meeting authorized the Board of Directors to decide on a new issue, raising EUR 250 million at maximum, in which the shareholders will have a pre-emptive right to subscribe for new shares in proportion to their current shareholding in the Company. A maximum of 50,000,000 new shares may be issued based on the authorization. The Board of Directors was authorized to decide on other terms of the share issue. The share issue authorisation shall be in force until 31 December 2008. The authorisation includes a right by the Board of Directors to decide on the offering of any shares not subscribed for to persons designated by the Board of Directors. The authorisation does not annul the Board of Director's prior share issue authorisation. The Board of Directors proposed the share issue authorization to the Shareholders' Meeting in order to finance partially Finnair's near-term investment programme. Finnair Plc Communications 21 November 2007 The information contained herein is not for publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States, Canada, Australia or Japan.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. There is no intention to register any portion of the offering in the United States or to conduct a public offering of securities in the United States. 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. Danske Bank A/S ("Danske Markets") and UBS Limited ("UBS Investment Bank") are acting for Finnair and for no-one else in connection with the potential share offering and will not be responsible to anyone other than Finnair for providing the protections afforded to the respective clients of Danske Markets or UBS Investment Bank nor for providing any advice in relation to the potential share offering." |
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