Infineon Follow-on Offering: Exercise of Over-allotment Option

Jul 19, 2001 | Business & Financial Press

Munich, Germany – July 19, 2001 – In the evening of July 18th 2001, Goldman Sachs & Co. oHG, on behalf of the Underwriters, has notified Infineon Technologies AG that it has exercised in full the over-allotment option granted in connection with the Company’s follow-on offering of 52,174,000 shares priced last week. An additional 7,826,000 new shares will be issued by Infineon, representing a total volume of Euro 195.7 million. After the exercise of the over-allotment option, the total deal size amounts to 60 million new shares or approximately Euro 1.5 billion in proceeds to Infineon.

The shares offered in the base deal had started trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Friday, July 13, 2001 under the ticker „IFX“ (WKN 623 100). Goldman Sachs acted as the sole Global Coordinator for the Offering.


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