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Investor Relations: Rich Nelson, +1 646 654 7761
Media Relations: Ed Dandridge, +1 646 654 8656
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, January 26, 2011— Nielsen Holdings N.V. (“The Nielsen Company”) announced today that it has priced its initial public offering of 71,428,572 shares of its common stock at $23.00 per share. The Nielsen Company’s shares of common stock are expected to begin trading today, January 26, on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “NLSN.” The Nielsen Company has also priced its concurrent offering of $250 million in aggregate principal amount of mandatory convertible subordinated bonds (the “bonds”), which will be mandatorily convertible into shares of The Nielsen Company’s common stock on February 1, 2013. The bonds will bear interest at a rate of 6.25% per annum, and the conversion rate per $50.00 principal amount of bonds will be between 1.8116 and 2.1739, depending on the market value of The Nielsen Company’s common stock, subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments.
新規株式公開では、ニールセン・カンパニーは普通株式71,428,572株を売り出す。 IPOの引受人は、新規公開価格から引受割引額を差し引いた価格で、ニールセン・カンパニーから10,714,286株を上限に普通株式を追加購入する30日間のオプションを有する。債券販売では、ニールセン・カンパニーは元本総額2億5,000万ドルの債券を販売します。 債券売出しの引受人は、新規公開価格から引受割引額を差し引いた価格で、ニールセン・カンパニーから元本総額3,750万ドルを上限に債券を追加購入する30日間のオプションを有しています。
ニールセン・カンパニーは、普通株式の新規株式公開により約15億6,000万ドル、債券募集により約2億4,000万ドルの純収入を、手数料と見積もり費用の支払い後に受け取る予定です。ニールセン・カンパニーはこの資金を、未払い債務の一部返済と、現オーナーへのアドバイザリー契約解除料の支払いに充てる予定です。
J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citi are serving as joint book-running managers for both offerings, with BofA Merrill Lynch, William Blair & Company, Guggenheim Securities, Wells Fargo Securities, Blaylock Robert Van, LLC, HSBC, Loop Capital Markets, Mizuho Securities USA Inc., Ramirez & Co., Inc. and The Williams Capital Group, L.P. are acting as co-managers.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities nor will there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction. Copies of the prospectuses may be obtained from: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, or by calling toll-free at 1-866-803-9204, or Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated; Attn: Prospectus Dept., 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014, Email: prospectus@morganstanley.com, or by calling toll-free at 1-866-718-1649.
