J.P. Morgan Private Equity Limited
Tender Offer
6 February 2009
J.P. Morgan Private Equity Limited (the 'Company') announces that it has accepted the following shares tendered to it at the applicable Net Asset Value per share as at 31 December 2008:
9,221,294 equity shares at a price of USD 1.71per share.
2,051,508 zero dividend preference shares at a price of GBP 0.5317 per share.
The date of the purchase was 4 February 2009. Cheques were despatched / CREST accounts were credited on 4 February 2009 in respect of the shares tendered.
The shares tendered are held as treasury shares. As a result of this tender offer, the Company holds 19,788,970 equity shares and 2,051,508 zero dividend preference shares in treasury. Immediately following the tender offer the Company's issued share capital will consist of 274,253,243 shares of no par value (excluding treasury shares) each classified as equity shares, 63,367,316 shares of no par value (excluding treasury shares) each classified as zero dividend preference shares and 14,625,650 shares of no par value (excluding treasury shares) each classified as 2015 ZDP shares.
Therefore the total number of voting rights in the Company is 274,253,243 for the equity share class, 63,367,316 for the zero dividend preference share class and 14,625,650 for the 2015 ZDP share class. These figures may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency rules.