This press release is issued pursuant to United States securities laws. Further to the pressrelease dated October 30, 2011 announcing that TMX Group Inc. and Maple Group Acquisition Corporation (Maple) haveentered into a support agreement in respect of Maple’s proposed acquisition of all of the outstanding TMX Group shares pursuant to an integrated two-step transaction valued at approximately $3.8 billion, Maple announced today that it has formally extended its offer until 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on January 31, 2012.
As of the close of trading on October 31, 2011, a total of approximately 27,025,421 TMX Group shares had been deposited under the Maple offer.
Additional details regarding the status of the Maple acquisition and the support agreement will be available in a notice of extension and variation that will be mailed shortly to TMX Group shareholders concurrently with a directors' circular of TMX Group setting forth its reasons for its recommendation of the Maple acquisition and other matters. These documentswill also be filed on SEDAR and will also be available at www.abetterexchange.com and www.tmx.com.