Syngenta

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Syngenta announces the closing of the current second trading line and the opening of a new second trading line.

On 24 April 2012, the Annual General Meeting of Syngenta AG authorized the Board of Directors of Syngenta to repurchase registered shares amounting to a maximum of 10% of the share capital of the Company for the purpose of capital reduction as part of a share buyback program.

Based on this authorization, in 2013 Syngenta opened a second trading line on the SIX Swiss Exchange (Ticker: SYNNE). This trading line was closed on 15 October 2015. At this date, 303 000 shares, out of a maximum of 9,312,614 registered shares, were repurchased.

On September 3, 2015, Syngenta announced its intention to return capital to shareholders through a share repurchase program of more than $2 billion.

UBS AG has been mandated to carry out share repurchases on behalf of Syngenta under the terms of article 55c para 2 lit. a of the Swiss Stock Exchange Ordinance (SESTO). The buy-backs will take place under Valor 29.929.808, ISIN CH0299298080.

Consequently, Syngenta today announced the opening of a new second trading line on the SIX Swiss Exchange with the ticker name SYNNEE, replacing the current trading line with the ticker name SYNNE.


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