04/10/2006
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4 October 2006 – Luxembourg – ProLogis European Properties (PEPR) today announces that Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley, joint global coordinators and joint book-runners for the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of ordinary units in ProLogis European Properties on Euronext Amsterdam N.V., have exercised in full the over-allotment option granted to them (in their capacity as representatives of the underwriters) by the selling unitholders to purchase 4,529,617 additional ordinary units at the offer price of €14.35 per ordinary unit. The closing of the sale of the additional ordinary units will occur on 5 October 2006 and will raise additional proceeds for the selling unitholders of approximately €65 million.
As a result, the total number of ordinary units sold in the IPO, including the 45,296,167 ordinary units sold prior to the exercise of the over-allotment option, will therefore be 49,825,784, resulting in a total offer size, after the closing of the sale of the additional ordinary units, of approximately €715 million.
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ProLogis European Properties, or PEPR, was established in 1999 and is an externally managed real estate investment fund organised as a Luxembourg closed-ended fonds commun de placement and regulated in Luxembourg by the Commission du Surveillance du Secteur Financier. PEPR owns a portfolio of high quality distribution facilities located in 25 submarkets within 11 European countries. It is managed by a subsidiary of ProLogis, a U.S. based real estate investment trust that operates a global network of industrial distribution properties and is a leading provider of distribution facilities and distribution services in North America, Europe and Asia.
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