Moscow and Amsterdam, June 29, 2020 – Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX) (“Yandex,” “we” or the “Company”), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced the closing of its previously announced public offering of 8,121,827 Class A shares. Prior to the closing, the underwriter exercised in full its option to purchase an additional 1,218,274 Class A shares, and accordingly the Company has issued an aggregate of 9,340,101 Class A shares at an offering price of $49.25 per share in the public offering, for gross proceeds of approximately $460 million. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC served as the sole underwriter for the offering.
In addition, concurrent with the public offering, Yandex today closed its previously announced private placement exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of 4,060,913 Class A shares to each of three private investors, or an aggregate of 12,182,739 Class A shares, at the public offering price per share. The investors in the concurrent private placement are JSC VTB Capital, the investment business arm of VTB Group, a Russian bank and global provider of financial services; Ervington Investments Limited, a company whose ultimate beneficiary is Roman Abramovich; and Treliscope Limited, a company whose ultimate beneficiaries are Alexander Abramov and Alexander Frolov. Goldman Sachs International served as the sole placement agent for the concurrent private placement.
The total number of new Class A shares issued in the public offering and the private placement is 21,522,840 Class A shares, and the aggregate gross proceeds are approximately $1.06 billion, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, placement agent fees, and estimated aggregate offering expenses.
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