Recommended All-Share Acquisition of Friends Life Group Ltd (Scheme
THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. PART II OF THIS DOCUMENT, TOGETHER WITH THE REST OF THIS DOCUMENT, COMPRISES AN EXPLANATORY STATEMENT IN COMPLIANCE WITH PART VIII OF THE COMPANIES (GUERNSEY) LAW, 2008 (AS AMENDED). This document relates to a proposed acquisition which, if implemented, will result in the cancellation of the listing of Friends Life Shares on the Official List and of trading of Friends Life Shares on the London Stock Exchange’s main market for listed securities. If you are in any doubt as to the action you should take, you should consult, and seek your own independent financial advice immediately from, your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant, fund manager or other appropriate independent financial adviser authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 if you are in the United Kingdom or, if not, from another appropriately authorised independent financial adviser. If you sell, have sold or otherwise transferred all of your Friends Life Shares, please send this document, together with any accompanying documents (but not the accompanying personalised Forms of Proxy or Forms of Instruction), as soon as possible to the purchaser or transferee or to the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for onward delivery to the purchaser or transferee. If you have sold or otherwise transferred part of your holding of Friends Life Shares, please consult the bank, stockbroker or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected. The distribution of this document and any accompanying documents in jurisdictions other than the United Kingdom, the United States or Guernsey may be restricted by the laws of those jurisdictions and therefore persons into whose possession this document and any accompanying documents come should inform themselves about and observe any such restrictions.
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