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Declared beneficial owners · 2

A single, collectively filed disclosure: the voting-rights rate applies to the whole group, not to each person.

• Schmolz+Bickenbach GmbH & Co. KG40.46%
• Viktor F. Vekselberg40.46%

Notice details

Beneficial owner

Schmolz+Bickenbach GmbH & Co. KG

Change in the type of understanding: Rescission of the Shareholders' Agreement and withdrawal of the Investment Agreement as per order of the Swiss Takeover Board of May 24, 2013. The above relates to a total of 47,796,847 SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH AG shares representing 40.46% of the share capital of SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH AG out of which 23,625,921 SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH AG shares (representing 20.00% of the share capital of SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH AG) are bound by a shareholders' agreement ("S+B SHA") between Schmolz + Bickenbach Holding AG and Gebuka AG, a company, who's beneficial owner is Gerold Büttiker. The S+B SHA has been notified and disclosed separately by way of a notification dated 4 May 2011. The 24,170,926 SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH AG shares indirectly held by Schmolz+Bickenbach GmbH & Co. KG which are not covered by the shareholders' agreement represent 20.46% of the share capital of SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH AG. Schmolz+Bickenbach GmbH & Co. KG holds its participation of 40.46% in SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH AG indirectly as folIows: Schmolz+Bickenbach GmbH & Co. KG owns 100% in Schmolz+Bickenbach Beteiligungs GmbH & Co KG, Eupener Strasse 70, 40549 Düsseldorf, Germany. Schmolz+Bickenbach Beteiligungs GmbH & Co KG owns 100% in Schmolz+Bickenbach Beteiligungs GmbH, Düsseldorf, Eupener Strasse 70, 40549 Düsseldorf, Germany. Schmolz+Bickenbach Beteiligungs GmbH owns 100% in Schmolz+Bickenbach Stahlcenter AG, Wil, c/o Heinz Macchi, Obere Bahnhofstrasse 49, 9500 WiI, Switzerland, which in turn owns 100% in Schmolz+Bickenbach Holding AG, WiI, c/o Heinz Macchi, Obere Bahnhofstrasse 49, 9500 WiI, Switzerland as well as 100% in Schmolz+Bickenbach Finanz AG, WiI, c/o HeinzMacchi, Obere Bahnhofstrasse 49, 9500 WiI, Switzerland. Venetos Holding AG, Bleicherweg 33, Zürich, Switzerland ("Venetos"); Renova Industries Ud, 2nd Terrace West Centreville, P.O. Box N-7755 Nassau, Bahamas ("RIL"). Venetos is a 100% subsidiary of INDESTICOPLAZ TRADING L1MITED, Afentrikas 4, Afentrika Court, Office 2, P.C. 6018 Larnaca, Cyprus, which is a 100% subsidiary of RIL. RIL is a 90% subsidiary of Renova Holding Ltd., 2nd Terrace West Centreville, P.O. Box N7755, Nassau, Bahamas ("RHL"). The 100% shareholder of RHL is TZ Columbus Services Ltd., Pasea Estate, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Island as trustee of the Columbus Trust, a trust established under the laws of Cayman Islands, whose ultimate beneficiary is Mr. Vekselberg. RIL's and Venetos' beneficial owner, Mr. Vekselberg, neither directly nor indirectly owns SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH AG shares or financial instruments with SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH AG shares as underlying.