Cassa depositi e prestiti sells 58,255,250 ENI shares for a total of approximately € 1.01 bln, ending up the sale of 3.3% of the ENI shares
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Cassa depositi e prestiti sells 58,255,250 ENI shares for a total of approximately € 1.01 bln, ending up the sale of 3.3% of the ENI shares

NOT FOR PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN OR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THESE COUNTRIES. Cassa depositi e prestiti S.p.A.

NOT FOR PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN OR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THESE COUNTRIES.

Cassa depositi e prestiti S.p.A. (CDP) announces that - between 24 September 2012 and 9 October 2012 - it sold no. 58,255,250 shares of ENI S.p.A. (ENI), equal to 1.6% of ENI’s share capital, for a total amount of € 1.01 bln, ending up the sale of 3.3% of the ENI shares. As a result of these transactions, CDP’s equity interest in ENI decreased to 936,179,478 shares, equal to 25.76 % of ENI’s share capital.

The average daily volumes sold by CDP over the period were 19.0% of total daily volumes exchanged in the Borsa Italiana market. Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited (Credit Suisse) acted as the intermediary in this transaction.

Together with the no. 61,744,750 ENI shares already sold through open market transactions in the period between 7 August 2012 and 13 September 2012 (as announced on September 13, 2012), CDP sold on the market from August 7, 2012 up to the date of this announcement an aggregate amount of no. 120,000,000 ENI shares, approximately equal to 3.3% of ENI’s share capital, for a total amount above of € 2,106 million, at a weighted average price of € 17.55256, above the market average price in the same period, equal to € 17.54489.

For the entire sale CDP paid a fee of approximately €164 thousand, approximately equal to 0.008% of the countervalue.

This sale of ENI shares completes the disposal by CDP of ENI shares in the amount envisaged in the press release dated May 30, 2012.

 

 

Rome, 9 October 2012

 

This press release is not for release, publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in the United States, Canada, Australia or Japan. The information contained herein does not constitute an offer of securities for sale in the United States, Canada, Australia or Japan or any other jurisdiction in which the distribution or release would be unlawful. The securities mentioned herein have not been, and will not be, registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to or for the account or benefit of U.S. persons (as defined in the Securities Act) absent an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. There will be no public offer of the securities described herein in the United States.

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COMUNICATO-N.-63-DEL-09-10-2012_CESSIONE-AZIONI-ENI
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