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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.
在首次公开发行中，尼尔森公司将出售 71,428,572 股普通股。 首次公开募股的承销商拥有 30 天的选择权，可以按首次公开募股价格减去承销折扣后的价格向尼尔森公司购买最多 10,714,286 股额外的普通股。在债券发行中，尼尔森公司将出售本金总额为 2.5 亿美元的债券。 此次债券发行的承销商有 30 天的选择权，可按首次公开发行价减去承销折扣后的价格向尼尔森公司购买本金总额不超过 3750 万美元的额外债券。
在支付佣金和预计费用后，尼尔森公司将从其普通股的首次公开发行中获得约 15.6 亿美元的净收益，从债券发行中获得约 2.4 亿美元的净收益。尼尔森公司计划将所得资金用于偿还部分未偿债务，并向现有所有者支付顾问协议终止费。
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.
