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“The voting rights thresholds are exceeded through allocation of further voting rights arising from
shares in the issuer on account of a consortium agreement in accordance with Sec. 22 (2) WpHG, not through
acquisition of shares by the notifying parties.
1) Objective pursued with the acquisition of voting rights (Sec. 27a (1) Sentence 3 WpHG)
a) The matter underlying the allocation of voting rights does not serve either to implement strategic aims
or to generate trading profits at the notifying parties.
b) The notifying parties intend to obtain further voting rights within the next 12 months by allocation
following internal restructuring within the family.
c) Apart from exercising voting rights at the issuer’s annual general meeting in supervisory board
elections, the notifying parties do not aim to gain influence over the composition of administrative,
management or supervisory bodies at the issuer.
d) The notifying parties do not aim to make any material changes to the issuer’s capital structure,
including but not limited to the proportion of equity and liabilities and the dividend policy.
2) Origin of the funds used (Sec. 27a (1) Sentence 4 WpHG)
These voting rights are acquired merely by way of allocation of further voting rights in accordance with
Sec. 22 (2) WpHG. No equity or liabilities of the notifying parties were used to finance the acquisition of the
voting rights.”
Notification on 7 December 2011:
Porsche Automobil Holding SE, Porscheplatz 1, 70435 Stuttgart, Germany, was informed of the following on
7 December 2011 pursuant to Sec. 21 (1) WpHG:
“The percentage of voting rights held by each of the following individuals and legal entities (“notifying
parties”) in Porsche Automobil Holding SE, Porscheplatz 1, 70435 Stuttgart, Germany, exceeded the voting
rights threshold of 75% on 5 December 2011 and amounts to 78.63% (120,395,572 of a total of
153,125,000 voting rights in Porsche Automobil Holding SE) as of that date:
1. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Ferdinand Karl Piëch, Salzburg, Austria;
2. Ferdinand Karl Alpha Privatstiftung, Vienna, Austria;
3. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Ferdinand Piëch GmbH, Salzburg, Austria;
4. Dr. Hans Michel Piëch, Vienna, Austria;
5. Dr. Hans Michel Piech GmbH, Salzburg, Austria;
6. Ferdinand Piëch GmbH, Grünwald, Germany;
7. Hans-Michel Piëch GmbH, Grünwald, Germany.
A share of 13.97% of the voting rights (21,394,758 voting rights) is allocable to the notifying parties 1
through 3 in accordance with Sec. 22 (1) Sentence 1 No. 1 WpHG and 64.65% (99,000,814 voting rights) is
allocable in accordance with Sec. 22 (2) WpHG.
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