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Tokyo\/ Munich \u2014 Japa\u00adnese tele\u00adcom\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons group Soft\u00adbank plans to acquire a stake in Wire\u00adcard and invest around 900 million euros in the payment services provider.<\/p>\n

For this purpose, Wire\u00adcard is to issue a conver\u00adti\u00adble bond that can be conver\u00adted into a total of 6,923,076 Wire\u00adcard shares (curr\u00adently corre\u00adspon\u00adding to approx. 5.6% of the share capi\u00adtal) at a conver\u00adsion price of EUR 130 per Wire\u00adcard share after a period of 5 years. The Annual Gene\u00adral Meeting of Wire\u00adcard AG on June 18, 2019 is expec\u00adted to decide on the issue of this conver\u00adti\u00adble bond to Soft\u00adbank exclu\u00adding the subscrip\u00adtion rights of current share\u00adhol\u00adders. This would make Soft\u00adbank the Bava\u00adrian company<\/strong> \u2018s fourth-largest inves\u00adtor after MB Betei\u00adli\u00adgungs\u00adge\u00adsell\u00adschaft<\/strong> \u2014 the invest\u00adment vehicle of Wire\u00adcard CEO Markus Braun<\/strong> \u2014 the invest\u00adment bank Gold\u00adman Sachs<\/strong> and the asset mana\u00adger Black\u00adrock<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Advi\u00adsors to Wire\u00adcard: Noerr LLP and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher <\/strong><\/p>\n

Advi\u00adsors to Soft\u00adbank: Sulli\u00advan & Cromwell<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tokyo\/ Munich \u2014 Japa\u00adnese tele\u00adcom\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons group Soft\u00adbank plans to acquire a stake in Wire\u00adcard and invest around 900 million euros in the payment services provi\u00adder. 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