Corporate actions
Jan 06, 2016

Alcatel-Lucent Takeover

Summary:
The companies Alcatel-Lucent S.A. and Nokia Corporation are planning to merge both companies. In connection with the planned transaction, Nokia Corporation submitted a takeover offer to the Alcatel-Lucent S.A. shareholders. According to the takeover offer, Alcatel-Lucent S.A shareholders will receive 0.55 Nokia Corporation shares for each Alcatel-Lucent S.A. share they hold. The offer period will end on 23 December 2015.
If the transaction is concluded successfully, an adjustment of the Eurex options contract (CGE) and the Eurex Single Stock Futures Contract (CGEG) on shares of Alcatel-Lucent S.A. will take place. The adjustment will be done by the R-factor method. The R-factor resulting from the conversion ratio is 1.81818181. As soon as the adjustment takes effect, the underlying instrument of the Alcatel-Lucent S.A.
contracts (CGE, CGEG) will be replaced by the Nokia Corporation share.
Effective date of the adjustment: Will be communicated.
Please refer to the website http://www.newconnectivity.com/ for further information on the transaction.
This circular contains a description of the adjustment procedure.

Adjustment Result:

R-Factor: 1.81818182
adjusted contract size for current Version 0 series: 100 --> 55
adjusted contract size for current Version 1 series: 105.3823 --> 57.9603

There will be no adjustment of the single stock future on Alcatel-Lucent shares (CGEG) due to the fact that there are no open positions.
Trading in CGEG will be discontinued with immediate effect.

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