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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.
기업 공개에서 닐슨 컴퍼니는 보통주 71,428,572주를 판매할 예정입니다. IPO의 인수자는 30일 동안 인수 할인을 차감한 공모가에서 최대 10,714,286주의 보통주를 추가로 매입할 수 있는 옵션을 The Nielsen Company로부터 갖게 됩니다. 이번 채권 공모에서 닐슨 컴퍼니는 총 2억 5,000만 달러의 채권을 판매할 예정입니다. 채권 공모의 인수자는 최초 공모 가격에서 인수 할인을 차감한 가격으로 닐슨 컴퍼니로부터 총 원금 3,750만 달러의 채권을 최대 30일 동안 추가로 매입할 수 있는 옵션이 있습니다.
닐슨 컴퍼니는 수수료와 예상 비용을 지불한 후 보통주 공모를 통해 약 15억 6천만 달러, 채권 공모를 통해 약 2억 4천만 달러의 순익을 얻게 됩니다. 닐슨 컴퍼니는 이 자금을 미결제 부채의 일부를 상환하고 현재 소유주에게 자문 계약 해지 수수료를 지불하는 데 사용할 계획입니다.
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.
