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CMS Hasche Sigle advises Sal. Oppenheim on IPO of Finanzvertrieb OVB

21/07/2006

Finanzvertrieb OVB Holding AG with its domicile in Cologne has concluded its IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Led by Frankfurt partner Dr Andreas Zanner a team from CMS Hasche Sigle advised Bankhaus Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. KGaA acting as lead manager and bookrunner as well as the co-lead manager HSBC Trinkhaus & Burkhardt which completed the bank consortium. More than 2.8 million shares were placed. The bank consortium was granted a greenshoe option. OVB received over EUR 50 million through the shares listed on the Prime Standard. Finally OVB achieved a turnover of EUR 85.9 million in Germany alone. Even after the IPO the insurer Deutscher Ring remains the majority shareholder of OVB with approx. 50.1% of the shares.

Advisors to the bank consortium

Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. KGaA (lead manager)
HSBC Trinkhaus & Burkhardt (co-lead manager)

CMS Hasche Sigle:
Dr Andreas Zanner, lead partner (stock trading and capital markets)
Dr Jochen Schlotter (capital markets)
Philipp Melzer (capital markets)
Dr Martin Kniehase (capital markets)


Contact CMS Hasche Sigle:

Dr Andreas Zanner
Tel.: +49 (0) 69 / 71701-139
E-mail: Andreas.Zanner@cms-hs.com



About CMS Hasche Sigle:

CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 450 lawyers. It covers the entire area of commercial law and provides legal advice to major German and international companies from a wide spectrum of industry. CMS Hasche Sigle operates at all the major business centres. It has offices in Berlin, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Dresden, Brussels, Belgrade, Moscow and Prague.

CMS Hasche Sigle is a partnership of lawyers and tax consultants; for register details / list of partners see www.cms-hs.com

CMS Hasche Sigle is a member of CMS, an alliance of leading independent European law firms. With over 595 partners, a total of 2,000 lawyers and tax consultants and around 4,200 support staff we advise our clients at commercial locations in 47 business centres in Europe and further afield on legal and tax issues.

Local strength, legal and tax advice tailored to the requirements of the market combined with a substantial amount of business and organisational integration form the basis for high-quality international legal advice.

In addition to CMS Hasche Sigle, the following firms are also members of the CMS alliance: CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni (Italy), CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo (Spain), CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre (France), CMS Cameron McKenna LLP (Great Britain), CMS DeBacker (Belgium), CMS Derks Star Busmann (the Netherlands), CMS von Erlach Henrici (Switzerland) and CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria). CMS has 57 offices in 23 countries in Western and Central Europe, North and South America, Asia and North Africa.

For further information on CMS Hasche Sigle see www.cms-hs.com and on the CMS alliance see www.cmslegal.com .