Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc
PROSPECTUS 4,751,070 Shares CLASS A COMMON STOCK Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. is offering 3,000,000 shares of Class A common stock and the selling shareholders are offering 1,751,070 shares of Class A common stock. This is our initial public offering, and there has been no organized public market for our Class A common stock. Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling shareholders. Our Class A common stock has been approved for listing on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ``CME.'' Investing in our common stock involves risks. See ``Risk Factors'' beginning on page 7. PRICE $35 A SHARE Underwriting Proceeds to Chicago Discounts and Mercantile Exchange Proceeds to Selling Price to Public Commissions Holdings Shareholders Per Share .......... $35.00 $2.45 $32.55 $32.55 Total ............. $166,287,450.00 $11,640,121.50 $97,650,000.00 $56,997,328.50 Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. has granted the underwriters the right to purchase up to an additional 712,660 shares to cover over-allotments. The Securities and Exchange Commission and state securities regulators have not approved or disapproved these securities, or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated expects to deliver the shares to purchasers on December 11, 2002. MORGAN STANLEY UBS WARBURG SALOMON SMITH BARNEY JPMORGAN WILLIAM BLAIR & COMPANY December 5, 2002 Chicago Mercantile Exchange futures and options on futures are traded on CME's open outcry trading floors in Chicago, electronically on CME's GLOBEX® platform and through privately negotiated transactions.
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