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June 29, 2012

German Financial Market Stabilisation Fund (SoFFin) converts silent participation of approximately EUR 80.1 m into approximately 58.85 m Commerzbank shares

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Today, the execution of the capital increase announced on June 27, 2012 for the purpose of the payment of variable remuneration to a large extent in shares was registered with the commercial register. Thus, the nominal capital of Commerzbank was increased by 176,553,636 shares against contribution in kind.

Subsequently, the German Financial Market Stabilisation Fund (SoFFin) has converted a portion of its silent participation into shares in order to maintain its equity interest ratio in Commerzbank (25% plus one share). This will result in a portion of the silent participation with a nominal value of approximately EUR 80.1 million being converted into 58,851,212 shares, using the conditional capital authorised in the 2011 Annual General Shareholders' Meeting. SoFFin's remaining silent participation in Commerzbank therefore is reduced to approximately EUR 1.63 billion.

With the execution of both capital measures, the total number of Commerzbank shares has increased to 5,829,513,857 shares. The new shares will be included in stock exchange trading for the first time on July 2, 2012.


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