Alstom launches a 300 million capital increase via a private placement

Alstoms Board of Directors approved today the launch of a capital increase through a private placement representing less than 5% of the share capital of Alstom via the issuance of new Alstom shares. The new shares will be fully fungible with Alstoms existing ones. The gross proceeds of the share capital increase would amount to approximately 300 million, with an extension clause of 50 million.

This equity offering aims primarily at financing on-going transactions, namely the remaining payment of around USD350 million related to the 25% stake in the rolling stock Russian Company Transmashholding. The proceeds may also allow the Group to make some other add-on operations in the renewable or grid businesses.

Alstom and Transmashholding signed a strategic partnership in March 2009. Under this agreement, Alstom had announced its intention to acquire 25% of the capital of Transmashholding. An initial payment of USD75 million was made in 2011 and as agreed between the parties, the remaining payment of approximately USD350 million, due in October 2012, is based on Transmashholdings results between 2008 and 2011. Over this period, Transmashholding registered a strong growth with sales reaching

USD3.6 billion in 2011 as well as a solid operational performance illustrated by a double-digit operating margin. Meanwhile, thanks to this partnership, Alstom Transport has already booked over 1.5 billion of contracts in Russia and CIS.

This capital increase will be placed through an accelerated book building to  institutional investors.

Alstom will publish its half year results for 2012/13 on 7 November. At this occasion the Group will renew its guidance of a sales growth of over 5% per year for this fiscal year and the two following ones and a gradual improvement of the operating margin which should be at around 8% in March 2015. It will also confirm that the free cash flow should be positive in each of the three fiscal years.

 Press Contacts 

Christine Rahard, Isabelle Tourancheau - Tel +33 1 41 49 32 95 /39 95

christine.rahard@chq.alstom.com, isabelle.tourancheau@chq.alstom.com  

InvestorRelations                                                                   

Emmanuelle Châtelain, Delphine Brault - Tel +33 1 41 49 37 38 / 26 42

emmanuelle.chatelain@chq.alstom.com,  delphine.brault@chq.alstom.com

This press release contains forward-looking statements which are based on current plans and forecasts of Alstoms management. Such forward-looking statements are relevant to the current scope of activity and are, by their nature, subject to a number of important risk and uncertainty factors (such as those described in the documents filed by Alstom with the French AMF) that could cause actual results to differ from the plans, objectives and expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements. These such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and Alstom undertakes no obligation to update or revise any of them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Crédit Agricole CIB is acting as Global Coordinator and Joint Bookrunner, BNP Paribas, Natixis and Société Générale as Joint Lead Managers and Bookrunners in relation to the accelerated book building.

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This document does not, and shall not, in any circumstances, constitute a public offering nor an invitation in any jurisdiction in connection with any offer.

This document does not constitute or form part of an offer or solicitation of an offer to purchase or subscribe for securities in France. The securities referred to herein may not be and will not be offered or sold to the public in France except to qualified investors ("investisseurs qualifiés") and/or to a limited group of investors ("cercle restreint dinvestisseurs") acting for their own account, as defined in, and in accordance with Articles L. 411-2 and D. 411-1 to D. 411-3 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

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