RWE completes capital measure

Overall, some 80.4 million shares were placed by way of an accelerated book-building process at the price of €26 per ordinary share. Therefrom, 28.1 million treasury shares were allocated subject to a claw-back provision if subscription rights are exercised by existing shareholders. These existing shareholders of RWE AG have since exercised 67.4% of such subscription rights and will receive 18.96 million shares at the subscription price of €26 per ordinary share. At the end of the subscription period, this meant 32.6% were finally able to be issued to the institutional investors who were provisionally allocated the shares on 6 December. The shares will be delivered over the next few days.

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