Offer for Sales of Shares
Toyota Motor Corporation
07 November 2006
(TRANSLATION)
November 7, 2006
To Whom It May Concern:
Company Name: Toyota Motor Corporation
Name and Title of Representative:
Katsuaki Watanabe, President
Code No. 7203
(Securities and exchanges throughout Japan.)
Name and Title of Contact Person:
Takuo Sasaki
General Manager, Accounting Division
Telephone Number: (0565) 28 - 2121
Notice Concerning Offer for Sale of Shares
We hereby notify you that with respect to the offer for sale shares of
common stock of Toyota Motor Corporation ('TMC') (the 'Shares') in the domestic
markets and the overseas markets, TMC has resolved at its Board of Directors'
Meeting held today, November 7, 2006, as follows:
In this offering, the Shares are scheduled to be offered for sale in Japan
(the 'Japanese Offering'), as well as in overseas markets (the 'International
Offering'; together with the Japanese Offering, collectively called the 'Global
Offering'). The joint global coordinators of the Global Offering are Nomura
Securities Co., Ltd., Nikko Citigroup Limited and Merrill Lynch Japan Securities
Co., Ltd.
1. Number of Shares to be offered for sale:
43,411,700 shares of common stock of TMC
Provided, however, in the International Offering, the investors may
elect to take delivery of American Depositary Shares ('ADSs') instead of the
Shares. Each ADS will represent two (2) Shares.
The above number is the aggregate number of the Shares to be offered for
sale in the Japanese Offering and the International Offering. The number of the
Shares to be offered for sale in each of the Japanese Offering and in the
International Offering will be determined on the Pricing Date as described in 3.
below by the selling shareholder, as described below in 2., taking into
consideration the market demand for the Shares and other factors, up to the
aggregate number of the Shares to be offered as indicated above.
2. Selling Shareholder:
Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd.
(Trust account in favor of Banks' Shareholdings Purchase Corporation
held in Mitsui Asset Trust and Banking Company, Limited)
3. Offering price:
Undetermined. (The offering price is scheduled to be determined
considering the market demand for the Shares and other factors based on the
indicative price presented as a price (with any fraction less than one yen being
rounded down) calculated by multiplying the closing price in regular trading of
the Shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on any day between Monday, November 20,
2006 and Wednesday, November 22, 2006 (the 'Pricing Date') by 0.90-1.00, in
accordance with the method prescribed in Section 7-2 of the Fair Custom Rule No.
14 set forth by the Japan Securities Dealers Association. In addition, 'the
amount paid by underwriters', which is the amount to be received by the selling
shareholder from the underwriters as the purchase price per share, is scheduled
to be determined as of the Pricing Date.)
4. Offering method:
(1) Japanese Offering
For the purpose of the Japanese Offering, the Shares shall be
underwritten by purchase by Nomura Securities Co., Ltd., Nikko Citigroup
Limited, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd., Daiwa Securities SMBC Co.
Ltd., Mizuho Investors Securities Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co. Ltd.,
Shinko Securities Co., Ltd., and Tokai Tokyo Securities Co., Ltd.
The lead managers of the Japanese Offering are Nomura Securities
Co., Ltd., and Nikko Citigroup Limited.
(2) International Offering
For the purpose of the International Offering, the Shares shall be
severally and jointly purchased by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Incorporated and Nomura Securities International, Inc., as the international
lead managers of the underwriting syndicate which includes Citigroup Global
Markets Inc. and others.
The consideration to be paid to the underwriters with
respect to the Global Offering will be a discount to the total offer price
granted to the underwriters by the selling shareholder.
5. Offering period (in Japan):
From Friday, November 24, 2006 to Tuesday, November 28, 2006; provided,
however, that the period is subject to advancement, in consideration of the
market demand for the Shares and other factors, and the earliest period shall be
from Tuesday, November 21, 2006 to Friday, November 24, 2006.
6. Delivery date:
A day between Thursday, November 30, 2006 and Monday, December 4, 2006;
which means that the delivery date may be advanced up to Thursday, November 30,
2006 according to the advancement of the offering period considering the market
demand for the Shares and other factors as described above in 5.
7. Deposit money for purchase:
Deposit money shall be the same amount as the offering price per Share.
8. Offering unit of Shares:
100 shares
9. TMC authorizes certain representative directors and executive directors,
to approve all acts necessary for this offer for sale, including the offering
price.
10. With respect to the offer for sale of the Shares, the Securities
Notification Statement and the Extraordinary Report were filed on November 7,
2006.
(Reference)
Purpose of the offer for sale:
The offer for sale as described above is being conducted to further
expand long-term stable shareholders, especially individual shareholders.
Note: This notice is prepared for the purpose of public disclosure of the
offering of shares of common stock of TMC, but is not prepared for the purpose
of investment solicitation or any other acts similar thereto, either within
Japan or abroad. In the case of subscription to this offering, the investor
should refer to the 'prospectus' (as well as any amendments thereto), which has
been prepared by TMC, and should make investment decision individually according
to his or her own judgment. The prospectus (as well as any amendments thereto)
is available at the underwriter securities company.
This notice is not an offer of securities for sale in the United States and
securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration
or an exemption from registration. Any public offering of securities to be made
in the United States, will be made by means of a prospectus that may be obtained
from TMC or Banks' Shareholdings Purchase Corporation that will contain detailed
information about TMC and its management, as well as financial statements,
pursuant to the United States Securities Act of 1933. In addition, in the
United States, a written prospectus to this offering may be obtained from: (1)
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, 4 World Financial Center,
New York, New York 10080 and (2) Nomura Securities International, Inc., 2 World
Financial Center, Building B, New York, New York 10281-1198. TMC intends to
register a part of the proposed offering in the United States.
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