To: Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE)
London Stock Exchange (LSE)
Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA)
Current report pursuant to the provisions of Law no. 24/2017 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations and to the Regulation no. 5/2018 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations and the provisions of the Bucharest Stock Exchange Code, Title II, Issuers and Financial Instruments
Report date: 20 December 2019
Company name: Societatea Energetica Electrica S.A. (Electrica)
Headquarters: 9 Grigore Alexandrescu Street, 1st District, Bucharest, Romania
Phone/fax no.: 004-021-2085999/ 004-021-2085998
Fiscal Code: RO 13267221
Trade Register registration number: J40/7425/2000
Subscribed and paid in share capital: RON 3,464,435,970
Regulated market where the issued securities are traded: Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) and London Stock Exchange (LSE)
Significant events to be reported:
Completion of the share capital increase operation of Societatea Energetica Electrica SA
Electrica would like to inform its shareholders and investors about the completion of Electrica's share capital increase operation on 20 December 2019, following the registration of the share capital increase with the Trade Register Office of Bucharest Court (on 11 December 2019), the Financial Supervisory Authority (on 18 December 2019) and respectively, the Central Depository (on 20 December 2019).
Electrica's share capital was increased by in kind contribution and cash contribution, with the amount of RON 5,036,680, from the amount of RON 3,459,399,290 to the amount of RON 3,464,435,970, by issuance of a number of 503,668 new nominative and dematerialized shares with a nominal value of RON 10/share (the "New Shares"), out of which:
(i) 502,580 ordinary, dematerialized and nominative New Shares, with a nominal value of RON 10 per share, having the trading symbol EL on the Regulated Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (the "BSE") and ISIN: ROELECACNOR5 (the "Shares"); and
(i) 1,088 New Shares represented in the form of global depository receipts ("GDR") issued pursuant to Regulation S, each GDR representing 4 Shares (i.e., 272 GDRs were issued), having the trading symbol ELSA on the Main Market operated by the London Stock Exchange (the "LSE") and temporary ISIN US83367Y4052, which are not fungible with other GDRs already issued pursuant to Regulation S GDRs and are subject to restrictions on resale in the United States until 40 days after the date of issuance of these new GDRs issued pursuant to Regulation S. These 272 GDRs will be identifiable by the TIDM "ELST". After the lapse of the 40 days from their issuance, the shares issued in the form of GDRs pursuant to Regulation S will be identified with the ISIN code US83367Y2072.
The admission of the 502,580 ordinary, dematerialized and nominative New Shares to trading on the Regulated Market operated by the BSE takes place on 20 December 2019 and the admission of the 1,088 New Shares in the form of GDRs (i.e., 272 GDRs) on the Main Market of the LSE will take place on 23 December 2019.
Chief Executive Officer Chief Strategy Officer
Georgeta Corina Popescu Anamaria Acristini-Georgescu
