Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA Acquisition agreement 9,95% of Garanti (4856X)

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RNS Number : 4856X

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA

21 February 2017

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA), in compliance with the Securities Market legislation, hereby communicates the following:

RELEVANT INFORMATION

BBVA has entered today into an agreement for the acquisition from Dogus Holding A.S. and Dogus Arastirma Gelistirme ve Musavirlik Hizmetleri A.S. (together, the "Sellers" or "Dogus") of 41,790,000,000 shares of Turkiye Garanti Bankasi, A.S. ("Garanti Bank") amounting to 9.95% of the total issued share capital of Garanti Bank (the "Acquisition" and the "Shares", respectively), at a total consideration of 7.95 Turkish Liras per share(1) (amounting to approximately a total of 3,322 MM Turkish Liras or 859 MM Euros(2) ).

Completion of the Acquisition is conditional, among others, on (i) obtaining the approval of the general assembly of each of the Sellers authorizing the execution of the Acquisition and the transfer of the Shares to BBVA and (ii) obtaining of the applicable regulatory approvals.

Completion of the Acquisition is expected to occur during the first half of 2017.

Upon completion of the Acquisition, the shareholding structure of Garanti Bank will approximately be as follows:

 
          Shareholders' 
              stakes 
 BBVA        49.85% 
 Dogus        0.05% 
 Rest         50.1% 
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 Total        100% 
 

Upon completion of the Acquisition, the amended and restated shareholders agreement dated November 19, 2014 executed by and among Dogus Holding A.S., Dogus Nakliyat ve Ticaret A.S., Dogus Arastırma Gelistirme ve Musavirlik Hizmetleri A.S. and BBVA will no longer be in force.

The Acquisition is estimated to have a negative impact on the Common Equity Tier 1 (fully loaded) of approximately 19 basis points.(3)

Madrid, February 21(st) , 2017

(1) The shares of Garanti Bank are listed in batches of 100 shares. Thus, the prices per share included herein refer to prices per batch of 100 shares each.

(2) The exchange rate used in this document is: TL/EUR=3.8657, which is the exchange rate as of February 17(th) , 2017.

(3) Impact on the Common Equity Tier (fully loaded) is calculated based on the December 2016 reported ratio.

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