Adjustment to exercise price and ratio of ESOP
16 August 2010
-Translation-
AIS-CP 081/2010
August 16, 2010
Subject: Notification of the adjustment to exercise price and exercise ratio
of ESOP Warrants Grant V
To: The President
The Stock Exchange of Thailand
According to the Board of Director Meeting of Advanced Info Service Public
Company Limited (the "Company") No. 5/2010, which was held on August 6, 2010
had passed a resolution to approve an interim dividend payment for the first
half operating result of 2010 at the rate of Baht 3.00 per share,
approximately totaling Baht 8,902 million to shareholders.
Upon the resolution, the Company has announced to distribute the dividends in
excess of 50% of the net profit after income tax of its consolidated financial
statement. This has affected on the adjustment to exercise price and exercise
ratio of warrants to purchase the Company's ordinary shares, which were
offered to directors and employees of the Company (ESOP) Grant V as stated in
Clause 2.6 (v) of the Prospectus offering the ESOP Program. The ESOP warrant
holders shall not be decreased their rights. Therefore, the adjustment to
exercise price and exercise ratio of ESOP warrants are shown as follow;
ESOP Grant V Before adjustment After adjustment
Exercise price (Baht per share) 72.945 71.891
Exercise ratio (warrant:common shares) 1:1.25390 1:1.27228
Number of shares to be allotted (shares) 6,762,134 6,512,420
Number of additional shares to be allotted -*
after adjustment of exercise price and
exercise ratio of ESOP
* The Company has allotted sufficient shares to reserve for the new exercise
ratio of ESOP since its AGM 2010.
The new exercise price and new exercise ratio shall be effective immediately
on August 17, 2010, which is the first day of XD sign posting onwards.
Yours faithfully,
-Signed-
Mr. Pong-amorn Nimpoonsawat
Chief Finance Officer
Advanced Info Services Plc.
Cc: The Securities and Exchange Commission