DGAP-Ad-hoc: Erste Abwicklungsanstalt / Key word(s): Miscellaneous Erste Abwicklungsanstalt: With judgement dated 29 September 2021, the Regional Court of Frankfurt/Main has ordered Erste Abwicklungsanstalt AöR (EAA) to pay to Portigon AG approx. EUR 1 bn. 29-Sep-2021 / 11:54 CET/CEST Disclosure of an inside information acc. to Article 17 MAR of the Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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With judgement dated 29 September 2021, the Regional Court of Frankfurt/Main has ordered Erste Abwicklungsanstalt AöR (EAA) to pay to Portigon AG approx. EUR 1 bn.

In 2012 and based on the decision of the European Commission, EAA has, in a financial markets stabilization transaction, taken over risk assets from Portigon AG (former WestLB AG). Portigon AG is currently being held liable by the tax authorities to repay refunded/counted tax credits in connection with suspected dividend arbitrage tradings in an amount of approx. EUR 1 bn. Portigon AG claims from EAA to be held harmless from such tax claims. EAA is convinced that there is no legal basis for such claim. Therefore, EAA will appeal against the decision of the Regional Court of Frankfurt/Main.

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Language:     English 
Company:      Erste Abwicklungsanstalt 
              Friedrichstraße 84 
              40217 Düsseldorf 
              Germany 
Phone:        0211 91345 780 
Fax:          0211 91345 789 
E-mail:       info@aa1.de 
Internet:     www.aa1.de 
Listed:       Regulated Market in Dusseldorf; Regulated Unofficial Market in Frankfurt, Stuttgart; Luxembourg Stock 
              Exchange 
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