EDP Renováveis informs about manager transaction related to EDP
Madrid, April 16th 2021: For the purposes of Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 16th 2014 on market abuse (“MAR”) and Article 248-B of the Portuguese Securities Code, EDP Renováveis, S.A. (“EDPR”) informs the market and the public that on April 16th 2021, EDP - Energias de Portugal, S. A. (“EDP”), as a person closely related to Miguel Stilwell de Andrade, Rui Manuel Rodrigues Lopes Teixeira, Vera de Morais Pinto Pereira Carneiro, Ana Paula Garrido Marques and Miguel Nuno Simões Nunes Ferreira Setas, considered to be officers of EDPR, communicated to EDPR that:
a) under a stock lending agreement entered into on March 3rd 2021, with Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG (“Citi”) and Morgan Stanley Europe SE (“Morgan Stanley”, together with Citi hereafter referred to as the “Banks”), EDP lent on March 5th 2021, 88.250,000 shares representing EDPR’s share capital to the Banks (“Borrowed Shares”) for the purposes of the accelerated bookbuilding process launched on March 2nd 2021, and completed on March 3rd 2021, as previously communicated to the market by EDPR;
b) following the share capital increase of EDPR on April 15th 2021, pursuant to which the Banks fully subscribed for 88,250,000 shares representing EDPR’s share capital, the Banks have returned to EDP the Borrowed Shares, which now represent (on a fully diluted basis) approximately 9.19% of EDPR’s share capital and voting rights.
EDP Renováveis, S.A.