EANS-VOTING RIGHTS: ÖSTERREICHISCHE POST AG - PUBLICATION OF A PARTICIPATION NOTIFCIATION ACCORDING TO ART.135 PARA. 2 STOCK EXCHANGE ACT

1. Issuer: Österreichische Post Aktiengesellschaft

2. Reason for the notification:

Acquisition or disposal of voting rights

3. Person subject to notification obligation:

Name: Morgan Stanley

City: Wilmington, Delaware

Country: USA

4. Name of shareholder(s): 
Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc

5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached: 3.2.2021

 

 

6. Total Positions

 

% of voting rights attached to shares (7.A)

% of voting rights through financial/other instruments (7.B.1 + 7.B.2)

Total of both in % (7.A + 7.B)

 Total number of voting rights of issuer

 

 Resulting situation on the date on which threshold was crossed / reached

 

0,06 %

3,74 %

3,79 %

67 552 638

 Position of previous notification (if applicable)

 

0,35 %

3,71 %

4,06 %

 

 

Details

 

7.  Notified details of the resulting situation:

 

A: Voting rights attached to shares

ISIN Code

Number of voting rights

% of voting rights 

Direct (Sec 130 BörseG 2018)

Indirect (Sec 133 BörseG 2018)

Direct (Sec 130 BörseG 2018)

Indirect (Sec 133 BörseG 2018)

AT0000APOST4

 

37 398

 

0,06 %

SUBTOTAL A

37 398

0,06 %

 

 

B 1: Financial / Other Instruments pursuant to Sec. 131 para. 1 No. 1 BörseG 2018

Type of instrument 

Expiration Date 

Exercise Date 

Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised

% of voting rights 

Right of recall over securities lending agreements

at any time

at any time

2 521 446

3,73 %

 

 

SUBTOTAL B.1

2 521 446

3,73 %

 

 

B 2: Financial / Other Instruments pursuant to Sec. 131 para. 1 No. 2 BörseG 2018

Type of instrument 

Expiration Date 

Exercise Period 

Physical / Cash Settlement 

Number of voting rights

% of voting rights 

Equity Swap

04.07.2022

at any time

Cash

4 127

0,01 %

 

 

 

SUBTOTAL B.2

4 127

0,01 %

 

 

8. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation:

Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial/other instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entity:

No.

Name

Directly controlled by No.

Shares held directly (%)

Financial/other instruments held directly (%)

Total of both (%)

1

Morgan Stanley

       

2

Morgan Stanley Capital Management, LLC

1

     

3

Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc.

2

     

4

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

3

  1,41 % 1,41 %

5

Prime Dealer Services Corp.

4

  0,01 % 0,01 %

6

Morgan Stanley International Holdings Inc.  

1

     

7

Morgan Stanley International Limited

6

     

8

Morgan Stanley Investments  (UK)

7

     

9

Morgan Stanley & Co.  International plc

8

0,06 % 2,31 % 2,37 %

 

         

 

 

9. In Case of proxy voting:

Date of general meeting:-

Voting rights after general meeting: - is equivalent to - voting rights.

 

 

10.    Other comments:
The notification was triggered as a result of a disposal of voting rights resulted in Morgan Stanleys holdings decreasing below 4%.

 

 

FURTHER INQUIRY NOTE

Austrian Post

Harald Hagenauer
Head of Inveastor Relations, Group Auditing & Compliance
Tel.: +43 (0) 57767-30400
investor@post.at

 

 

Glasgow, 05.02.2021