LME Holdings Limited ("LME Holdings"), the parent company of the London Metal Exchange Limited ("LME Limited"), is pleased to announce that earlier today the High Court of Justice in England and Wales sanctioned the Scheme without modification and confirmed the Capital Reduction forming part of the Scheme.
The implementation of the Acquisition remains subject to the delivery of office copies of the Scheme Court Order and the Reduction Court Order to the Registrar of Companies ("the
Registrar") and the Reduction Court Order being registered by the Registrar. It is anticipated that the Scheme will become effective and that the Acquisition will complete on 6 December following which, cheques will be dispatched to Scheme Shareholders on or before 20 December.
Any capitalised term used but not defined in this announcement has the same meaning as given to it in the Scheme Document dated 9 July 2012 (the "Scheme Document").
