Capital increase of UniCredit: all the unexercised option rights have beeen purchased during the first trading session

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CAPITAL INCREASE OF UNICREDIT: ALL THE UNEXERCISED OPTION RIGHTS HAVE BEEN PURCHASED DURING THE FIRST TRADING SESSION

UniCredit S.p.A. announces that during the first trading session of the offer on the Italian Stock Exchange, all 297,005,168 option rights (giving the right to subscribe for 44,550,774 UniCredit ordinary shares) that remained unexercised at the end of the subscription period (the “Rights”) have been sold.

The Rights will grant the right to subscribe for newly-issued UniCredit ordinary shares at a price of Euro 1.589 per share based on a subscription ratio of 3 new UniCredit ordinary shares for every 20 rights held.

New UniCredit shares must be subscribed for by no later than February 15, 2010.

Shares that have been subscribed for will then be made available through authorised intermediaries holding accounts with Monte Titoli S.p.A. within ten trading days following the last available date for exercising the option rights purchased during the offer on the Italian Stock Exchange.

The offer is underwritten by a syndicate led by BofA Merrill Lynch and UniCredit Bank A.G., Milan Branch as Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners and composed by BofA Merrill Lynch together with Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs International, Mediobanca and UBS Investment Bank, acting as Joint Bookrunners and BNP PARIBAS, Nomura International Plc and Société Générale acting as Co-Lead Managers. The syndicate members have committed, severally and not jointly, vis-à-vis UniCredit to subscribe for any ordinary shares which will remain unsubscribed for at the end of the offer on the Italian Stock Exchange.

The Prospectus is available at the registered office of UniCredit S.p.A. at Via A. Specchi, 16, Rome; at the General Management Office of UniCredit S.p.A. at Piazza Cordusio, 2, Milan; at the registered offices of UniCredit CAIB Poland S.A. at Emilii Plater, 53, 00-113 Warsaw, Poland; at Centralny Dom Maklerski Pekao Spolka Akcyjma at ul. Wołoska, 18, 02-675, Warsaw, Poland; at Bank Pekao S.A. at ul. Grzybowska, 53/57, 00-950, Warsaw, Poland; at UniCredit Bank A.G., Arabellastr., 12, 81925 Munich; at Borsa Italiana at Piazza Affari, 6, Milan; on the Issuer’s website at http://www.unicreditgroup.eu/; and on the website of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (Giełda Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie S.A.) at http://www.gpw.com.pl.

Milan, 8 February 2010

Enquiries:

Media Relations: Tel. +39 02 88628236;
e-mail: MediaRelations@unicreditgroup.eu

Investor Relations: Tel. + 39 02 88628715;
e-mail: InvestorRelations@unicreditgroup.eu

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The Shares may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons (as such term is defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. There will be no public offer of securities in the United States.
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