Neon Equi­ty AG: Upco­ming stock exch­an­ge debut and public offe­ring

Frank­furt am Main, 9 Janu­ary 2023 — Neon Equi­ty AG (“NEON”, ISIN DE000A3DW408) (form­er­ly: TO-Hol­ding GmbH) is about to make its stock exch­an­ge debut on the Open Mar­ket of the Düs­sel­dorf Stock Exch­an­ge in the Pri­ma­ry Mar­ket tra­ding seg­ment. On 13 Janu­ary 2023, all 40,050,100 exis­ting regis­tered ordi­na­ry shares wit­hout nomi­nal value (no-par value shares) of NEON are to be included in the Open Mar­ket of the Düs­sel­dorf Stock Exch­an­ge. Sub­se­quent­ly, the NEON shares are to be lis­ted and tra­da­ble on XETRA, the elec­tro­nic tra­ding plat­form of Deut­sche Bör­se AG; in this con­nec­tion, it is also plan­ned to include the NEON shares in the Open Mar­ket seg­ment Quo­ta­ti­on Board of the Frank­furt Stock Exch­an­ge.

On the occa­si­on of the stock mar­ket debut, the main share­hol­der of NEON, TO Hol­ding 1 GmbH, will publicly offer up to 10,000 NEON shares from its port­fo­lio. The public offe­ring will be tran­sac­ted via the stock exch­an­ge and will take place exclu­si­ve­ly in the Fede­ral Repu­blic of Ger­ma­ny. Buy orders from inte­res­ted par­ties may be pla­ced via any bank admit­ted to the Düs­sel­dorf Stock Exch­an­ge. The public offe­ring will be made exclu­si­ve­ly on the day of the initi­al lis­ting; the offer peri­od is, the­r­e­fo­re, expec­ted to begin on 13 Janu­ary 2023 at 8:00 a.m. (CET) and will end on the same day at 10:00 p.m. (CET).

The con­cre­te buy pri­ce for the shares made available in the public offe­ring has not yet been deter­mi­ned becau­se the offer is being made via the stock exch­an­ge. In the event of an acqui­si­ti­on of shares via a stock exch­an­ge, the offe­ring pri­ce cor­re­sponds to the respec­ti­ve stock exch­an­ge pri­ce within the mea­ning of § 24 of the Ger­man Stock Exch­an­ge Act (BörsG), which is based on sup­p­ly and demand. The book-run­ning bro­ker com­mis­sio­ned with the pri­ce deter­mi­na­ti­on con­ti­nuous­ly estab­lishes buy and sell pri­ces on the basis of the order book situa­ti­on in accordance with sup­p­ly and demand, taking into account the respec­ti­ve appli­ca­ble regu­la­ti­ons of the Düs­sel­dorf Stock Exch­an­ge. The buy and sell pri­ces are com­mu­ni­ca­ted via the Düs­sel­dorf Stock Exch­an­ge and via elec­tro­nic media such as Bloom­berg. Inves­tors are requi­red to inform them­sel­ves about any tran­sac­tion cos­ts and fees (such as the usu­al bank com­mis­si­ons and fees) incur­red in addi­ti­on to the stock exch­an­ge pri­ce, in par­ti­cu­lar through their depo­si­ta­ry bank.

An acqui­si­ti­on of the shares within the scope of the public offe­ring will be made in accordance with the Con­di­ti­ons for Tran­sac­tions on the Düs­sel­dorf Stock Exch­an­ge, the Terms and Con­di­ti­ons for the Open Mar­ket on the Düs­sel­dorf Stock Exch­an­ge as well as in accordance with the pro­vi­si­ons of the Stock Exch­an­ge Rules and Regu­la­ti­ons per­tai­ning to Tra­ding, inclu­ding the imple­men­ting pro­vi­si­ons issued by the Exe­cu­ti­ve Board of the Düs­sel­dorf Stock Exch­an­ge. The shares will be deli­ver­ed against pay­ment of the buy pri­ce by cre­diting the respec­ti­ve secu­ri­ties port­fo­li­os of the inves­tors, usual­ly within two ban­king days.

The secu­ri­ties pro­s­pec­tus rele­vant for the public offe­ring was published on 9 Janu­ary 2023 on the web­site of NEON (www​.neon​-equi​ty​.com) in the ​“Inves­tor Rela­ti­ons” sec­tion. In this con­nec­tion, the infor­ma­ti­on set out below under ​“Dis­clai­mer” must be obser­ved.