On September 6, 2017, the Company announced that its Board of Directors has approved the repurchase of its shares of common stock and ADSs by means of a share repurchase plan in the total aggregate amount of up to RUB 20,000,000,000 (the Repurchase Plan ), which amount includes funds used for purchasing the Company's shares from Sistema Finance as described below, until April 2019. The Company will execute the Repurchase Plan under Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Rule 10b-18 of the Exchange Act.
The Repurchase Plan will be carried out by the Company s wholly-owned subsidiary Stream Digital, LLC (the Purchaser ). RUB 20,000,000,000 is equal to approximately US$345,721,694 translated at the CBR's exchange rate of RUB 57.85 to US$1.00 as of September 6, 2017.
A plan under Rule 10b5-1 allows the Company to repurchase its shares and ADSs at times when it otherwise might be prevented from doing so under insider trading laws or because of self-imposed trading blackout periods. A broker selected by the Company will have the authority under the terms and limitations specified in the plan to repurchase the Company's shares and ADSs on the open market in accordance with the terms of the plan. Repurchases are subject to the regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission as well as certain price, market volume and timing constraints specified in the plan. The Company may terminate the plan at any time.
The Repurchase Plan comes into effect on September 6, 2017 and is effective until April 2019. Any actual repurchases under the Repurchase Plan will be disclosed in the Company s annual reports on Form 20-F and Form 6-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and as required under legislation of the Russian Federation.
Purchases from Sistema Finance
Sistema Finance S.A. ( Sistema Finance ), a Luxembourg subsidiary of the Company's majority shareholder Sistema Public Joint Stock Financial Corporation ( Sistema ) has also entered into a sale and purchase agreement (the Sale and Purchase Agreement ) with the Purchaser, whereby Sistema Finance agreed to sell to the Purchaser a number of the Company's shares of common stock proportionate to the number of the Company's shares and ADSs to be purchased by the Purchaser under the Repurchase Plan in each reporting month at the average price per share calculated for a relevant month such that Sistema's (together with its affiliated entities') aggregate percentage ownership and voting power in the Company after the Repurchase Plan will be substantially equal to Sistema's and such affiliates' ownership as at the date of the commencement of the Repurchase Plan. Moreover, Sistema Finance is entitled to refuse to sell the Company's shares to the Purchaser by giving the Purchaser a respective notice before the beginning of a reporting period/month, in which the Purchaser contemplates to acquire the Company's shares and ADSs under the Repurchase Plan, as well as to set in this notice a minimal price at which Sistema Finance agrees to transfer the shares to the Purchaser.
Cautionary Statement
This announcement contains (or may contain) certain forward-looking statements with respect to the Company's current expectations and projections about future events. These statements, which sometimes use, but are not limited to, words such as anticipate , believe , intend , estimate , expect and words of similar meaning, reflect the directors' beliefs and expectations and involve a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results and performance to differ materially from any expected future results or performance expressed or implied by the forward-looking statement. Statements contained in this announcement regarding past trends or activities should not be taken as a representation that such trends or activities will continue in the future. The information contained in this announcement is subject to change without notice and, except as required by applicable law, neither the Company, the Purchaser assumes any responsibility or obligation to update publicly or review any of the forward-looking statements contained herein. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this announcement.
This announcement is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell shares of common stock (including shares of common stock represented by ADSs). The Repurchase Plan is not being made, directly or indirectly, in or into, or by use of the mails of, or by other means (including, without limitation, facsimile transmission, email, telex and telephone), or via any facilities of a national securities exchange of Australia, Canada, Japan or any other jurisdiction where the making of the Repurchase Plan into or inside such jurisdiction would constitute violation of the laws of such jurisdiction.
Neither the SEC nor any US state securities commission has approved or disapproved of this transaction or passed upon the merits of fairness of such transaction or passed upon the adequacy of the information contained in this announcement. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offence.
The information contained in this notice is addressed exclusively to the holders of common stock and ADSs. Neither this notice, nor the Repurchase Plan described herein nor any information contained herein constitute an offer ( Offerta ) pursuant to Russian law, or an advertisement, or an offer of securities to an unlimited number of persons within or outside the territory of the Russian Federation, or voluntary tender offer or mandatory tender offer under Russian law. Neither this notice, nor the Repurchase Plan described herein constitute or are intended for placement or public c
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