Paris, France – December 12, 2024 – Atos SE (Euronext Paris : ATO) (the "Company” or "Atos”) announces today that it is continuing to implement its financial restructuring plan following the completion of its €233 million capital increase with shareholders’ preferential subscription rights on December 10, 2024 (the "Rights Issue”), with the launch of the three capital increases with waiver of shareholders’ preferential subscription rights reserved for creditors, leading to the issue of a maximum total number of 115,860,932,926 new shares (the "New Shares”), broken down as follows: (i) a capital increase with waiver of shareholders' preferential subscription rights reserved exclusively for the benefit of creditors who are not participating in the Company's new preferred financings (the "Non-Participating Creditors”) or, as the case may be, their respective affiliates, for a maximum gross amount of €1,801,157,053.8780 (including issue premium), through the issue of a maximum of 27,166,773,060 New Shares with a par value of €0.0001 each, at a subscription price of €0.0663 per New Share, to be subscribed by offsetting against the amount of an equivalent portion of the claims held by the Non-Participating Creditors against the Company (the "Equitization Capital Increase Reserved for Non-Participating Creditors”), (ii) a capital increase with waiver of shareholders' preferential subscription rights reserved exclusively for the benefit of creditors who are participating in the Company's new preferred financings (the "Participating Creditors”) or, as the case may be, their respective affiliates, for a maximum gross amount of €1,120,123,859.7384 (including issue premium), through the issue of a maximum of 84,857,868,162 New Shares with a par value of €0.0001 each, at a subscription price of €0.0132 per New Share, to be subscribed by offsetting against the amount of an equivalent portion of the claims held by the Participating Creditors against the Company (the "Equitization Capital Increase Reserved for Participating Creditors”), (iii) a capital increase with waiver of shareholders' preferential subscription rights reserved exclusively for Participating Creditors or, as the case may be, their respective affiliates, for a maximum gross amount of €14,194,279.3048 (including issue premium), through the issue of a maximum of 3,836,291,704 New Shares with a par value of €0.0001 each, at a subscription price of €0.0037 per New Share, to be subscribed for in cash and by offsetting against a portion of their claims held against the Company (the "Additional Reserved Capital Increase for Participating Creditors”, and together with the Equitization Capital Increase Reserved for Non-Participating Creditors and the Equitization Capital Increase Reserved for Participating Creditors, the "Reserved Capital Increases”), in accordance with the accelerated safeguard plan of Atos, which was approved by the specialized commercial Court of Nanterre on October 24, 2024 (the "Accelerated Safeguard Plan”).
For illustrative purpose, the impact of the issue of the New Shares resulting from the Reserved Capital Increases and of the new shares to be issued in the event of the exercise of all the Warrants, as contemplated by the Accelerated Safeguard Plan, taking into account the participation of a shareholder holding 1% of the Company’s share capital (i.e.631,750,469 shares, based on the number of shares comprising the Company’s share capital at December 11, 2024) prior to these issues (calculations based on the number of shares comprising the Company's share capital at December 11, 2024), is described below: Share of capital (in %)Before issue of a maximum of 115,860,932,926 New Shares under the Reserved Capital Increases and 22,398,648,648 new shares to be issued in the event of full exercise of the Warrants1.00%After issue of a maximum of 27,166,773,060 New Shares under the Equitization Capital Increase Reserved for Non-Participating Creditors 0.70%After issue of a maximum of 27,166,773,060 New Shares under the Equitization Capital Increase Reserved for Non-Participating Creditors and a maximum of 84,857,868,162 New Shares under the Equitization Capital Increase Reserved for Participating Creditors0.36%After issue of a maximum of 27,166,773,060 New Shares under the Equitization Capital Increase Reserved for Non-Participating Creditors, a maximum of 84,857,868,162 New Shares under the Equitization Capital Increase Reserved for Participating Creditors and a maximum of 3,836,291,704 New Shares under the Additional Reserved Capital Increase for Participating Creditors 0.35%After issue of a maximum of 27,166,773,060 New Shares under the Equitization Capital Increase Reserved for Non-Participating Creditors, a maximum of 84,857,868,162 New Shares under the Equitization Capital Increase Reserved for Participating Creditors, a maximum of 3,836,291,704 New Shares under the Additional Reserved Capital Increase for Participating Creditors and 22,398,648,648 new shares to be issued in the event of full exercise of the Warrants0.31% Reminder on the Accelerated Safeguard Plan As a reminder, the operations of Atos’ financial restructuring provided for under the Accelerated Safeguard Plan, with the €233 million Rights Issue which was settled and delivered on December 10, 2024, include in particular: the equitization of €2.9 billion (principal amount) of existing financial debts (via the Reserved Capital Increases with a settlement-delivery scheduled for December 18, 2024, and including the claims converted into equity under the second-rank subscription guarantee as part of the Rights Issue),the reinstallation in the form of new debts maturing after 6 years or more of €1.95 billion of existing financial debts,the receipt of €1.5 to €1.675 billion of new preferred financings (new money debt – including €0.25 billion of bank guarantee and RCF mentioned below) and new money equity resulting from the Rights Issue, which resulted in a cash contribution of c.€143 million (including the €75 million contributed as part of the first-rank subscription guarantee for the Rights Issue) and the equitization of claims amounting to c.€90 million, as well as additional voluntary cash subscriptions by the Participating Creditors under the Additional Reserved Capital Increase for Participating Creditors, with a total maximum amount, including issue premium, of €2,112,999.9997, as provided in the Accelerated Safeguard Plan,€0.25 billion in new preferred financings (new money debts in the form of RCF and guarantee lines) dedicated to meeting the needs for bank guarantees,The issue of a maximum of 22,398,648,648 Warrants.
THIS PRESS RELEASE IS AN ADVERTISEMENT AND NOT A PROSPECTUS WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION (EU) 2017/1129 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL OF JUNE 14, 2017 Press Release Launch of the Reserved Capital Increases for creditors under the Accelerated Safeguard Plan of Atos Atos SE announces today the launch of the three capital increases reserved for creditors under the Accelerated Safeguard Plan: the issue and admission to trading on Euronext Paris of a maximum of 27,166,773,060 New Shares to be subscribed at a subscription price of €0.0663 per New Share by way of offsetting against claims, as part of a capital increase with waiver of preferential subscription rights reserved exclusively for Non-Participating Creditors (and their respective affiliates) for a maximum gross amount of €1,801,157,053.8780, including issue premium;the issue and admission to trading on Euronext Paris of a maximum of 84,857,868,162 New Shares to be subscribed at a subscription price of €0.0132 per New Share by way of offsetting against claims, as part of a capital increase with waiver of preferential subscription rights reserved exclusively for Participating Creditors (and their respective affiliates) for a maximum gross amount of €1,120,123,859.7384, including issue premium;the issue and admission to trading on Euronext Paris of a maximum of 3,836,291,704 New Shares to be subscribed at a subscription price of €0.0037 per New Share in cash and by offsetting against claims, as part of a capital increase with waiver of preferential subscription rights reserved exclusively for Participating Creditors (and their respective affiliates) for a maximum gross amount of €14,194,279.3048, including issue premium.
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