COMPANY ANNOUNCMENT 25 March 2014 No. 2/2014 NOT FOR PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AUSTRALIA, CANADA OR JAPAN This announcement is not a prospectus but an advertisement and nothing herein contains an offering of securities. No one should purchase or subscribe for any securities in OW Bunker A/S ("OW Bunker" or the "Company") except on the basis of information in the prospectus published by OW Bunker in connection with the potential offering and admission of such securities to trading and official listing on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen A/S ("NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen"). OW Bunker announces early closing of its offering and expected acceleration of the first day of trading OW Bunker's offering of shares to retail investors in Denmark and institutional investors both in Denmark and internationally, will close early because of the strong interest and demand from investors. The offering was announced on 18 March 2014 in connection with the initial public offering and admission to trading and official listing on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen of shares in OW Bunker. The offering for retail investors with orders up to and including DKK 3 million will close tomorrow, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 at 5:01 pm CET. The early close for retail investors is due to the demand from such investors having exceeded their expected allocation of offer shares. In addition, OW Bunker has also decided to close the offering for orders of more than DKK 3 million on Thursday, 27 March 2014 at 1:00 pm CET. Information about the result of the offer, including the final offer price and allocation of shares is expected to be announced through NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen no later than 8:00 am CET on 28 March 2014, allowing the admission to trading and official listing on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen to be moved forward to 28 March 2014. The shares will trade under the symbol "OW". The offer shares are expected to be delivered on or about Wednesday, 2 April 2014 against payment in immediately available funds in DKK. The shares will be issued under ISIN DK0060548386. For further information, please contact: Jim Pedersen, CEO, tel.: +45 9812 7277 For media enquiries: Per Bech Thomsen, Group Communications, tel.: +45 3137 3133 This document and the information contained herein are not for distribution or release, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States of America (including its territories and possessions, any state of the United States of America and the District of Columbia) (the "United States"), Australia, Canada or Japan. This communication does not constitute, or form part of, an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase, any securities in the United States, Australia, Canada or Japan or in any jurisdiction in which any offer or solicitation would be unlawful. The securities of OW Bunker A/S have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") and may not be offered or sold within the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act. This communication is not a prospectus for the purpose of directive 2003/71/EC as amended (together with any applicable implementing measures in any member State, the "Prospectus Directive"). The prospectus prepared pursuant to the Prospectus Directive can be obtained from OW Bunker A/S' registered office and website, with certain limitations. Investors should not purchase or otherwise acquire any securities referred to in this communication except on the basis of information contained in a prospectus. In any EEA Member State, other than Denmark, that has implemented the Prospectus Directive, this communication is only addressed to and is only directed at qualified investors in that Member State within the meaning of the Prospectus Directive. This communication is only directed at (i) persons who are outside the United Kingdom or (ii) to investment professionals falling within Article 19(5) of the U.K. Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the "Order") or (iii) high net worth entities falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order or (iv) other persons to whom it may lawfully be communicated (the persons described in (i) through (iv) above together being referred to as "relevant persons"). The securities are only available to, and any invitation, offer or agreement to purchase or otherwise acquire such securities will be engaged in only with, relevant persons. Any person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on this document or any of its contents. Stabilisation/FCA The Joint Global Coordinators, Joint Bookrunners and the Co-Lead Manager and their affiliates are acting exclusively for OW Bunker A/S and the selling shareholders and no-one else in connection with the contemplated IPO. They will not regard any other person as their respective clients in relation to the contemplated IPO and will not be responsible to anyone other than OW Bunker A/S and the selling shareholders for providing the protections afforded to their respective clients, nor for providing advice in relation to the contemplated IPO, the contents of this communication or any transaction, arrangement or other matter referred to herein. In connection with the contemplated IPO, the Joint Global Coordinators, the Joint Bookrunners and the Co-Lead Manager and any of their affiliates, acting as investors for their own accounts, may purchase shares and in that capacity may retain, purchase, sell, offer to sell or otherwise deal for their own accounts in such shares and other securities of OW Bunker A/S or related investments in connection with the contemplated IPO or otherwise. Accordingly, references in the prospectus to the shares being offered, acquired, placed or otherwise dealt in should be read as including any offer to, acquisition, placing or dealing by, such Joint Global Coordinators, the Joint Bookrunners and the Co-Lead Manager and any of their affiliates acting as investors for their own accounts. The Joint Global Coordinators, the Joint Bookrunners and the Co-Lead Manager do not intend to disclose the extent of any such investment or transactions otherwise than in accordance with any legal or regulatory obligations to do so. Matters discussed in this communication may constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements (other than statements of historical fact) relating to future events and anticipated or planned financial and operational performance and can be identified by words such as "targets", "believes", "expects", "aims", "intends", "plans", "seeks", "will", "may", "might", "anticipates", "would", "could", "should", "continues", "estimate" or similar expressions. The forward-looking statements in this communication are based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions. Although OW Bunker A/S believes that these assumptions were reasonable when made, these assumptions are inherently subject to significant known and unknown risks, uncertainties, contingencies and other important factors which are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond its control. Such risks, uncertainties, contingencies and other important factors could cause actual events to differ materially from the expectations expressed or implied in this communication by such forward-looking statements. The information, opinions and forward-looking statements contained in this announcement speak only as at its date, and are subject to change without notice. [HUG#1771432]
OW Bunker announces early closing of its offering and expected acceleration of the first day of trading
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