SHANGHAI, July 15 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Shanda Interactive Entertainment
Limited ('Shanda') (Nasdaq: SNDA), a leading interactive entertainment media
company in China, and Shanda Music Group Limited ('Shanda Music'), a wholly
owned subsidiary of Shanda, today announced the expiration and preliminary
results of the tender offer for 1,155,045,300 ordinary shares, par value
$0.00005 per share ('Shares'), of Hurray! Holding Co., Ltd. ('Hurray!'),
including Shares represented by American Depositary Shares ('ADSs,' each
representing 100 Shares), at a purchase price of $0.04 per Share (equivalent
to $4.00 per ADS) in cash, without interest and subject to any applicable
withholding taxes.
The tender offer expired at 12:01 a.m., New York City time, on July 15,
2009.
Citibank, N.A., the ADS tender agent, has advised Shanda that, as of the
expiration of the tender offer, approximately 11,568,183 ADSs (including 6,965
ADSs that were tendered pursuant to guaranteed delivery procedures) were
validly tendered and not withdrawn. Conyers Dill & Pearman, the Share tender
agent, has advised Shanda that, as of the expiration of the tender offer,
approximately 266,232,760 Shares were validly tendered and not withdrawn.
Based on these preliminary results, the aggregate number of Shares (including
Shares represented by ADSs) validly tendered and not withdrawn was
approximately 1,423,051,060 Shares (including Shares represented by ADSs).
Shanda Music offered to purchase 1,155,045,300 Shares (including Shares
represented by ADSs) in the tender offer. Because the number of Shares
(including Shares represented by ADSs) validly tendered and not withdrawn
exceeded the number of Shares (including Shares represented by ADSs) that
Shanda Music offered to purchase, the number of Shares (including Shares
represented by ADSs) that Shanda Music will purchase from each tendering
shareholder of Shares (including Shares represented by ADSs) will be reduced
on a pro rata basis. The resulting estimated proration factor is approximately
81.2% of the Shares (including Shares represented by ADSs) validly tendered
and not withdrawn.
Both the number of Shares (including Shares represented by ADSs) validly
tendered and not withdrawn and the estimated proration factor are preliminary
and are subject to verification.