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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. Prices Initial Public Offering At $35 Per Share; Class A Common Stock To Begin Trading On NYSE Dec. 6

Date 06/12/2002

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CME) yesterday priced its initial public offering of 4,751,070 shares of Class A common stock at $35 per share. A total of 3 million shares are being sold by the company. The remainder are being sold by existing shareholders. The company will not receive any proceeds from the sale of Class A shares by existing shareholders. The Class A common stock is expected to begin trading on Friday, Dec. 6.

The company has granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 716,660 shares of Class A common stock to cover over-allotments.

Morgan Stanley is the book-running manager for the offering with UBS Warburg as joint-lead manager. Salomon Smith Barney, J.P. Morgan Securities and William Blair & Company are the co-managing underwriters.

This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state. A copy of the final prospectus may be obtained from Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, 1585 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. is the parent company of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (www.cme.com), the largest futures exchange in the United States based on notional value, trading volume and open interest. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on its trading floors and GLOBEX around-the-clock electronic trading platform. CME offers futures contracts and options on futures primarily in four product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange moves about $1.7 billion per day in settlement payments and manages $27.7 billion in collateral deposits.