ASUR Completes Global Offering, Begins Trading on the NYSE.Business Editors MEXICO CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 2000 The Ministry of Communications and Transportation and Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A. de C.V. (ASUR), (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Using voice recognition to replace keypad entry for telephone voice menus. Typically used to speak the digits 0 through 9 insted of keying them, ASR systems may be able to recognize a limited vocabulary. See voice recognition and AVSR. ) the Mexican airport operator of Cancun International Airport and eight other airports in the southeastern region of Mexico, announced that the company's American Depositary Shares (ADS), each representing ten series B shares, began trading today on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. (NYSE) under the symbol ASR. Simultaneously, ASUR's series B shares began trading on the Mexican Stock Exchange Mexican Stock Exchange The only stock exchange in Mexico. The Indice de Precios y Cotizaciones, or IPC index, consists of the 35 most representative stocks chosen every two months. (Bolsa) under the symbol ASUR. The listing of the company's ADSs and shares on the NYSE and the Bolsa follows the successful completion of a $335 million single tranche global offering of 221,739,130 series B shares at an offering price of US$15.125 per ADS, or Ps$ 14.23 per series B share, of which 18,539,350 series B shares will be delivered in Mexico. The offering represents the sale of 73.9% of ASUR's capital which was previously held by a trust established by Nacional Financiera, S.N.C. (NAFIN), a Mexican national credit institution and development bank controlled by the Mexican government, other than the 33,260,870 series B shares that constitute the overallotment option available to the Underwriters of the offering. UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBS United Bible Societies UBS United Blood Services UBS United Buying Service UBS Used Bookstore UBS University Business Services UBS Universal Building Society (UK) UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System Warburg LLC and Interacciones Global Inc. acted as joint global coordinators for the offering, Interacciones Casa de Bolsa, S.A. de C.V., Grupo Financiero Interacciones, Inversora Bursatil, S.A. de C.V., Casa de Bolsa, Grupo Financiero Inbursa and GBM GBM 1 Glioblastoma multiforme, see there 2. Glomerular basement membrane Grupo Bursatil Mexicano, S.A. de C.V., Casa de Bolsa, Grupo Financiero GBM led the Mexican selling group and Merrill Lynch & Co and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter acted as Co-managers. UBS Warburg LLC acted as Sole Bookrunner for the offering. Copies of the prospectus are available from Lilian Mahecha at UBS Warburg LLC, 299 Park Avenue, 38th Floor, New York, NY 10171. |
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