Listing application by Aktia plc

Listing application by Aktia plc

 Aktia plc		                                                                     
 Stock Exchange Release
 25.9.2009 at 12.20                                                              
 Listing application by Aktia plc                                                
 Not for distribution in the United States, Australia, Canada or Japan.          
 Aktia plc (Aktia) has today applied for listing of the company's series A and   
 series R shares on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd (Listing). The Listing is expected to
 take place on 29 September 2009.                                                
 AKTIA PLC                                                                       
 For more details, please contact                                                
 Malin Pettersson, Head of Communications, tel. +358 10 247 6369                 
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 Malin Pettersson, Head of Communications, tel. +358 10 247 6369                 
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 NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd                                                         
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 www.aktia.fi                                                                    
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 to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities.                      
 This document is not an offer for sale of securities in the United States.      
 Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration  
 or an exemption from registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as     
 amended. The company has not registered, and does not intend to register, any   
 portion of any offering of its securities in the United States, and does not    
 intend to conduct a public offering of its securities in the United States.     
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 Promotion) Order 2005 (the "Order") or (iii) high net worth companies, and other
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 to (d) of the Order or (iv) persons who are members or creditors of the company 
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 implementing Directive 2003/71/EC (such Directive, together with any applicable 
 implementing measures in the relevant home Member State under such Directive,   
 the ("Prospectus Directive"). A prospectus prepared pursuant to the Prospectus  
 Directive will be published in connection with any listing or offering of       
 securities, and will be available at subscription locations in Finland.         
 Any offer of securities to the public that may be deemed to be made pursuant to 
 this communication in any EEA Member State that has implemented Prospectus      
 Directive is only addressed to qualified investors in that Member State within  
 the meaning of the Prospectus Directive.                                        
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 statements include all matters that are not historical facts, statements        
 regarding the company's intentions, beliefs or current expectations concerning, 
 among other things the company's results of operations, financial condition,    
 liquidity, prospects, growth, strategies and the industry in which the company  
 operates. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and         
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 or may not occur in the future, and speak only as of the date they are made. The
 company cautions you that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of      
 future performance and that its actual results of operations, financial         
 condition and liquidity and the development of the industry in which the company
 operates may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the           
 forward-looking statements contained in this presentation. In addition, even if 
 the company's results of operations, financial condition and liquidity and the  
 development of the industry in which the company operates are consistent with   
 the forward-looking statements contained in this document, those results or     
 developments may not be indicative of results or developments in future periods.
 The company does not undertake any obligation to review or confirm expectations 
 or estimates or to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking        
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 date of this document.