Diebold、Wincor Nixdorf買収で最終条件をクリア

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【ノースカントン（米オハイオ州）2016年8月5日PR Newswire=共同通信JBN】

＊Diebold、Wincor Nixdorf AG買収計画でポーランドから無条件の承認を獲得し、すべての完了条件を満たす

＊買収提案は8月15日に決着する見通し

金融セルフサービス技術と関連サービス、ソフトウエアを提供するグローバルリーダーのDiebold, Incorporated（NYSE: DBD）は5日、Wincor Nixdorf AG（FWB: WIN）買収計画を巡ってポーランドから独占禁止法上の承認を得たと発表した。この結果、Dieboldは買収提案文書に基づく完了条件に必要なすべての独禁法上の承認を獲得した。買収提案の仕上げに向けた必要な完了条件はこれですべて満たされたことになり、買収提案は8月15日に決着する見通しとなった。

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Diebold新普通株992万8514株と現金8億9170万ユーロで構成される買収提示資金は、期日までに買収提案に応じたWincor Nixdorfの株主に分配される。Dieboldは新しく発行する普通株の上場をニューヨーク証券取引所に申請済みで、今後フランクフルト証券取引所へは全普通株8990万7516株の上場を申請する。買い取り提案に応じたWincor Nixdorf株のフランクフルト証券取引所の規制市場における取引は、2016年8月5日の通常取引時間後に終了する。

DieboldとWincor Nixdorfの事業統合に関する詳しい情報はウェブサイトwww.diebold.com/dieboldwincor 参照。

▽投資家と株主向けの重要情報

Wincor Nixdorfとの事業統合計画に関して、Dieboldは米証券取引委員会（SEC）にフォームS-4に基づく登録届出書を提出した。SECが2016年2月5日に有効と認定した登録届出書には、買収提案に関してDieboldが使用する目論見書が含まれる。またドイツ連邦金融監督庁（BaFin）は2016年2月4日、買収提案を巡ってドイツでの提案文書の公表を承認し、Dieboldは2016年2月5日にドイツ語の提案文書を発表した。買収提案を受諾する期間は2016年3月22日（欧州中央時間）までで、法で定めた追加受諾期間は4月12日（欧州中央夏時間）に締め切られた。

投資家と株主は、目論見書と提案文書に加え、SECあるいはBaFinに提出済みないし今後提出されるか、Dieboldのウェブサイト（www.diebold.com 、投資家関係セクション）で公表された事業統合計画および提案に関するその他文書に目を通すことが求められる。これらの文書が重要情報を含むか、今後含むからである。

目論見書の無料コピー、提案文書の英訳版、その他DieboldがSECに提出した関係文書は、SECのウェブサイト（www.sec.gov ）から入手できる。目論見書とその他の文書はDieboldのウェブサイト（www.diebold.com 、投資家関係サイト）にアクセスして無料で入手できる。BaFinのウェブサイト（www.bafin.de ）からは提案文書を、Dieboldのウェブサイト（www.diebold.com 、投資家関係サイト）からはその英訳を入手できる。さらに提案文書のコピーはドイツ銀行（Taunusanlage 12, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany、e-mail to dct.tender offers@db.com 、telefax to +49 69 910 38794）に要求すれば無料入手できる。

この文書はWincor NixdorfあるいはDieboldの株式の購入提案、あるい売却勧誘のいずれでもない。株式買い付け提案に関する条件は、2016年2月5日公表の提案文書か、SECに提出されたか今後提出される文書で公開されている。投資家とWincor Nixdorfの株主、およびWincor Nixdorf株式を直接、間接に取得する権利を譲渡できる法律文書を持つ人は、目論見書と提案文書、公開買い取りに関するすべての文書に目を通すよう強く要請される。これらの文書に重要情報が含まれているからである。

株式の買い取り提案は、1933年米証券法S-10修正条項の要件を満たす目論見書、およびドイツ有価証券取得及び支配獲得法（WpUG）とドイツ有価証券目論見書法を含む適切な欧州諸規制に基づくドイツ語提案文書によるものを除いては行われない。関係規制当局によって承認される一定の例外、確認された一定の事実を条件にして、郵便利用や（無制限のファクシミリ送信、電話、インターネットを含む）各種手段によろうと、州間・外国取引、国法証券取引所、その他の裁判権の機関によろうと、その法を違反とするいかなる管轄の下でも直接、間接の買い取り提案はなされない。

▽Dieboldについて

Diebold、Incorporated（NYSE: DBD）は世界中の人々をマネーと結び付ける技術、ソフトウエア、サービスを提供し、現物的、デジタル的な現金の世界を便利に、安全に、効率的に橋渡しする。Dieboldは1859年の創立以来、傑出したセルフサービスのイノベーション、セキュリティー、サービスを金融、商業、小売り、その他の市場に提供する大手企業へと進化してきた。

Dieboldは世界中で約1万5000人を雇用し、米オハイオ州カントン近郊に本社がある。Dieboldの詳細はwww.diebold.com またはTwitter: http://twitter.com/DieboldInc を参照。

ソース：Diebold, Incorporated

▽問い合わせ先

Media Relations, Mike Jacobsen, APR, +1 330 490 3796

michael.jacobsen@diebold.com  

Investor Relations, Steve Virostek, +1 330 490 6319

stephen.virostek@diebold.com

Diebold And Wincor Nixdorf Achieve Satisfaction Of Final Closing Condition For Business Combination

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NORTH CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

- Diebold receives unconditional clearance in Poland, satisfying all closing

conditions for planned acquisition of Wincor Nixdorf AG

- Takeover offer expected to be settled on Aug. 15

Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD), a global leader in financial self-service

technology, services and software, announced today that it received antitrust

clearance in Poland for its planned acquisition of Wincor Nixdorf AG (FWB:

WIN). As a result, the company has attained all antitrust clearances required

as a closing condition under the offer document for the acquisition. All

closing conditions required for the consummation of the takeover offer are now

satisfied and the takeover offer is expected to be settled on Aug. 15.

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The offer consideration, in total consisting of 9,928,514 newly issued common

shares of Diebold and approximately (EUR)891.7 million in cash, will be

distributed to the shareholders of Wincor Nixdorf that tendered their shares in

the offer at the time of settlement. Diebold has applied for listing of the

newly issued Diebold common shares on the New York Stock Exchange and will

apply for listing of all 89,907,516 of its common shares on the Frankfurt Stock

Exchange. Trading of the tendered Wincor Nixdorf shares on the regulated market

of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange will cease after the end of the regular stock

exchange trading hours on Aug. 5, 2016.

For more information about the business combination between Diebold and Wincor

Nixdorf, please visit www.diebold.com/dieboldwincor.

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR INVESTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS

In connection with the proposed business combination with Wincor Nixdorf,

Diebold has filed a Registration Statement on Form S-4 with the U.S. Securities

and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which was declared effective by the SEC on

February 5, 2016, that includes a prospectus of Diebold to be used in

connection with the takeover offer. In addition, on February 4, 2016, the

German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt fuer

Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, "BaFin") approved the publication of the offer

document in German in connection with the takeover offer. Diebold has published

the German offer document on February 5, 2016. The acceptance period for the

takeover offer expired at the end of March 22, 2016 (Central European Time),

and the statutory additional acceptance period expired at the end of April 12,

2016 (Central European Summer Time).

INVESTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE PROSPECTUS AND THE OFFER

DOCUMENT, AS WELL AS OTHER DOCUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN OR WILL BE FILED WITH THE

SEC OR BaFin OR PUBLISHED AT DIEBOLD'S WEBSITE at www.diebold.com UNDER THE

INVESTOR RELATIONS SECTION, REGARDING THE PROPOSED BUSINESS COMBINATION AND THE

OFFER BECAUSE THESE DOCUMENTS CONTAIN OR WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION.

You may obtain a free copy of the prospectus, an English translation of the

offer document, and other related documents filed by Diebold with the SEC on

the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The prospectus and other documents relating

thereto may also be obtained for free by accessing Diebold's website at

www.diebold.com under the Investor Relations section. You may obtain a free

copy of the offer document on BaFin's website at www.bafin.de, and, along with

an English translation thereof, at Diebold's website at www.diebold.com under

the Investor Relations section. Further, upon request, you may obtain a copy of

the offer document free of charge from Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft,

Taunusanlage 12, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, or e-mail to dct.tender

offers@db.com or by telefax to +49 69 910 38794.

This document is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to

sell shares of Wincor Nixdorf or Diebold. Terms and further provisions

regarding the public offer are disclosed in the offer document, which was

published on February 5, 2016, and in documents filed or that will be filed

with the SEC. Investors and holders of Wincor Nixdorf-Shares, or of such

instruments conferring a right to directly or indirectly acquire Wincor Nixdorf

shares, are strongly encouraged to read the prospectus, the offer document and

all documents in connection with the public offer because these documents

contain important information.

No offering of securities will be made except by means of a prospectus meeting

the requirements of section 10 of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended,

and a German offer document in accordance with applicable European regulations,

including the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act and the German

Securities Prospectus Act (Wertpapierprospektgesetz). Subject to certain

exceptions to be approved by the relevant regulators or certain facts to be

ascertained, the public offer would not be made directly or indirectly, in or

into any jurisdiction where to do so would constitute a violation of the laws

of such jurisdiction, or by use of the mails or by any means or instrumentality

(including without limitation, facsimile transmission, telephone and the

internet) of interstate or foreign commerce, or any facility of a national

securities exchange, of any such jurisdiction.

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT ABOUT FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain statements contained in this communication regarding matters that are

not historical facts are forward-looking statements (as defined in the Private

Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995). These include statements regarding

management's intentions, plans, beliefs, expectations or forecasts for the

future including, without limitation, the proposed business combination with

Wincor Nixdorf and the takeover offer. Such forward-looking statements are

based on the current expectations of Diebold and involve risks and

uncertainties; consequently, actual results may differ materially from those

expressed or implied in the statements. Such forward-looking statements may

include statements about the business combination and the offer, the likelihood

that such transaction is consummated and the effects of any transaction on the

businesses and financial conditions of Diebold or Wincor Nixdorf, including

synergies, pro forma revenue, targeted operating margin, net debt to EBITDA

ratios, accretion to earnings and other financial or operating measures. By

their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties

because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not

occur in the future. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future

performance and actual results of operations, financial condition and

liquidity, and the development of the industries in which Diebold and Wincor

Nixdorf operate may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the

forward-looking statements contained in this document. In addition, risks and

uncertainties related to the contemplated business combination between Diebold

and Wincor Nixdorf include, but are not limited to, the expected timing and

likelihood of the completion of the contemplated business combination, the

timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any governmental and regulatory

approvals that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to

abandon the transaction, the ability to successfully integrate the businesses,

the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise

to the termination of the business combination agreement, risks related to

disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the

contemplated business combination, the risk that any announcements relating to

the contemplated business combination could have adverse effects on the market

price of Diebold's common shares, and the risk that the contemplated

transactions or the potential announcement of other transactions could have an

adverse effect on the ability of Diebold to retain and hire key personnel and

maintain relationships with its suppliers, and on its operating results and

businesses generally. These risks, as well as other risks associated with the

contemplated business combination, are more fully discussed in the prospectus

that is attached as Annex 4 to the German offer document and has been filed

with the SEC. Additional risks and uncertainties are identified and discussed

in Diebold's reports filed with the SEC and available at the SEC's website at

www.sec.gov. Any forward looking statements speak only as at the date of this

document. Except as required by applicable law, neither Diebold nor Wincor

Nixdorf undertakes any obligation to update or revise publicly any

forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future

events or otherwise.

About Diebold

Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) provides the technology, software and

services that connect people around the world with their money - bridging the

physical and digital worlds of cash conveniently, securely and efficiently.

Since its founding in 1859, Diebold has evolved to become a leading provider of

exceptional self-service innovation, security and services to financial,

commercial, retail and other markets.

Diebold has approximately 15,000 employees worldwide and is headquartered near

Canton, Ohio, USA. Visit Diebold at www.diebold.com or on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/DieboldInc.

SOURCE: Diebold, Incorporated

CONTACT: Media Relations, Mike Jacobsen, APR, +1 330 490 3796,

michael.jacobsen@diebold.com; Investor Relations, Steve Virostek, +1 330 490

6319, stephen.virostek@diebold.com