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the interest held by UniCredit in Bank BPH), on August 3, 2007 UniCredit and GE Capital<br />

International Financing Corporation on behalf of GE Money (“GE Capital”), a division of the<br />

General Electric group, stipulated an agreement for the sale of 65.9% of the share capital of<br />

Bank BPH by UniCredit for €530.5 million. In particular, the sale was subordinated to the spinoff<br />

of a part of the assets of Bank BPH in Bank Pekao, which took place on November 29,<br />

2007.<br />

The agreement also prescribes the issue of a series of Representations and Guarantees, both by<br />

UniCredit and by GE Capital. In particular, the guarantees issued by UniCredit are valid until<br />

the earliest of the following dates: (i) 18 months from the execution of the sale of the interest<br />

and (ii) the date of approval of the financial statements for the year after the year of execution<br />

of the sale. The term for the guarantees issued by GE Capital instead is 18 months starting from<br />

the execution of the sale. The guarantees on tax matters are valid of six years starting from the<br />

effective date of the split.<br />

The sale of the controlling interest in Bank BPH was executed on June 17, 2008.<br />

22.3. Settlement with Parmalat<br />

On August 1, 2008, the UniCredit group stipulated a settlement agreement with Parmalat S.p.A.<br />

(which took over the Parmalat Arrangement) and with the Official Receiver of the companies<br />

in extraordinary administration of the Parmalat group, of the Parmatour group, of Parma<br />

Associazione Calcio and of other companies of the former Parmalat group still in extraordinary<br />

administration, in order to regulate all mutual relationships and the respective claims, related to<br />

the period preceding the declaration of insolvency of the Parmalat group and inherent to its<br />

bankruptcy.<br />

In accordance with said agreement, in exchange for the payment by the UniCredit group of a<br />

total amount of €271.7 million and its abandonment of the appeal judgments and of its credits<br />

allowed but not yet paid, the Official Receiver undertook to abandon any additional action and<br />

revocation or compensation claim against the UniCredit Group and to abandon or revoke its<br />

civil actions in criminal proceedings, thus defining all current or potential revocation or<br />

compensation actions.<br />

For additional details, see the description provided in the First Section, Chapter 20, Paragraph<br />

20.8 of the <strong>Prospectus</strong>.<br />

22.4. Agreement between UniCredit and the Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic<br />

of Poland<br />

On September 2, 2008, UniCredit and the Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of Poland<br />

stipulated an agreement whereby the Polish Ministry of the Treasury was given a put option, to<br />

be exercised starting from the date of the agreement until June 30, 2009, and UniCredit was<br />

given a call option, to be exercised from December 23, 2008 to December 23, 2009, pertaining<br />

to the 3.95% interest in the share capital of Bank Pekao held by the Polish Ministry of the<br />

Treasury.<br />

The exercise price of both options had been set to the mean of the daily prices, weighed by the<br />

traded volumes, of Bank Pekao, at the Warsaw Stock Exchange in the six months prior to the<br />

exercise of the option, plus a 3% premium.<br />

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