euro adhoc: OVB Holding AG / Financing, Stock Offerings (IPO) / OVB Holding Aktiengesellschaft sets offering period and price range for Initial Public Offering

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14.07.2006

Ad-hoc-announcement Ad-hoc-announcement pursuant to § 15 WpHG (German
Securities Trading Act) OVB Holding Aktiengesellschaft sets offering
period and price range for Initial Public Offering Köln, July 14,
2006 - OVB Holding Aktiengesellschaft together with the Lead Manager
Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. KGaA has set the price range within which
purchase offers for shares of OVB Holding Aktiengesellschaft in
connection with its Initial Public Offering may be placed at between
EUR 19 and EUR 22 per share. The offering period will last for a
minimum of two banking days. Interested investors will be able to
submit orders for theup to 3,030,514 (including Greenshoe) offered
shares of the company in the offering period which is expected to
start July 17, 2006, at the earliest, and expected to expire July 20,
2006 at 12:00 noon (CEST) for retail investors and at 2:00 p.m.
(CEST) for institutional investors, at the latest. Additional
information: ISIN: DE0006286560 Listing: Official Market (Geregelter
Markt) / Prime Standard; Frankfurt Stock Exchange Further
information: www.ovb.ag Brigitte Bonifer Investor Relations OVB
Holding Aktiengesellschaft Heumarkt 1
50667 Köln E-Mail: bbonifer@ovb.de Phone: +49 221 2015 288 Further
information of the issuer regarding this Ad-hoc-announcement: This
publication constitutes neither an offer to sell nor an invitation to
buy securities. No offer or sale of transferable securities is being
made to the public outside Germany. The public offer in Germany is
being made solely by means, and on the basis of, the German language
Wertpapierprospekt as approved by the German Federal Financial
Supervisory Authority (BaFin) on July 10, 2006 (the "German
Prospectus") and any supplement thereto. The German Prospectus was
published on July 10, 2006 on the website of OVB Holding AG
(http://www.ovb.ag). Since July 10, 2006 printed copies of the German
Prospectus are available in connection with the offering in Germany
free of charge during usual business hours at OVB Holding
Aktiengesellschaft as well as at the consortium banks. At the same
sources the Supplement No. 1 is expected to be available from July
15, 2006. The information contained in this document is neither
meant to be published nor distributed in the United States of
America, Canada, Australia or Japan. This document does not
constitute an offer of securities for sale or a solicitation of an
offer to purchase securities in these countries or to or for the
account or benefit of "U.S. persons" as such term is defined in
Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

end of announcement euro adhoc 14.07.2006 15:49:06
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Further inquiry note:
Michael Lülsdorf
Referent Finanzen
Tel.: +49 (0)221 2015 170
E-Mail: mluelsdorf@ovb.de

Branche: Financial & Business Services
ISIN: DE0006286560
WKN: 628656
Börsen: Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse / admission applied: regulated
dealing