Voluntary Public Takeover of Hercules BidCo GmbH to the remaining Shareholders of Deutsche EuroShop AG

15.06.2022

Details of the procedure for the exchange of Deutsche EuroShop AG registered shares (ISIN DE0007480204) were published in the securities notices.

Exchange into "Deutsche EuroShop AG Tendered Registered Shares"

The transfer is to be carried out by means of a securities transfer (CASCADE transaction: KVEE WE) under specification of the specification "4 - original shares into entitlements" in the field "TR". This transfer is only possible from the free reporting portfolio (FMB). The shares must therefore be transferred to the FMB in advance by means of a stock transfer (CASCADE-RS transaction: KVEE BV).

The exchange is to be carried out in the period from

9 June 2022 up to and including 7 July 2022

The "Deutsche EuroShop AG tendered registered shares" (ISIN DE000A3DMF80) will be issued as registered securities. The shares resulting from the exchange described above will be made available in the FMB.

There is a grace period until 11 July 2022.

Registration of the shareholders by re-registration

The shareholders of the "Deutsche EuroShop AG tendered registered shares"
(ISIN DE000A3DMF80) are to be entered in the Company's share register. Corresponding rewrites (KVCU) can be entered into CASCADE-RS by the custodian banks as of 9 June 2022.

Note about submission planning

Due to the processing capacities in CASCADE-RS, submissions amounting to 10,000 re-registrations or more per transfer must be agreed in advance with Client Services. Clearstream Banking¹ reserves the right to reject file transfers that have not been agreed upon within the scope of overall coordination.

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1. This Announcement is published by Clearstream Banking AG (CBF), registered office at Mergenthaleralle 61, 65760 Eschborn, Germany, registered with the Commercial Register of the District Court in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, under number HRB 7500.