HSH Nordbank AG / Payout/Miscellaneous 15.04.2010 16:19 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer / publisher is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corporate News: No distributions based on 2009 results - Loss participation of 16,401 Percent Hamburg/Kiel - 15 April 2010 - The Supervisory Board of HSH Nordbank AG has adopted the 2009 financial statements for the single entity according to HGB (German GAAP) accounting. The financial statements report a balance sheet loss/ net loss for 2009. According to the announcement of December 18, 2009, no coupon payments for the fiscal year 2009 will be made on silent participations and profit participation capital. Moreover, these hybrid instruments will participate in the balance sheet loss/ net loss. The book value of the silent participations and profit participation capital will be reduced by 16.401 percent to 83.599 percent. In addition to the privately placed silent participations and profit participation capital the following publicly placed instruments based on silent participations of HSH Nordbank AG are affected: RESPARCS Funding II Limited Partnership Securities 7.5% EUR 500mn (ISIN DE0009842542) RESPARCS Funding Limited Partnership I Securities 8.0% USD 300mn (ISIN XS0159207850) HSH Nordbank Sparc Securities 7.4075% EUR 500mn (ISIN XS0142391894) HSH Nordbank Sphere Securities 7.25% USD 500mn (ISIN XS0221141400) Contact: HSH Nordbank AG Günter Femers Investor Relations Tel. +49 431 900 14601 Fax + 49 431 900 614601 E-Mail: guenter.femers@hsh-nordbank.com www.hsh-nordbank.de HSH Nordbank AG Rune Hoffmann Company spokesman Tel. +49 40 33 33 11412 Fax +49 40 33 33 611412 E-Mail: rune.hoffmann@hsh-nordbank.com www.hsh-nordbank.de 15.04.2010 16:19 Ad hoc announcement, Financial News and Media Release distributed by DGAP. Medienarchiv at |[![CDATA[|[a href="http://www.dgap-medientreff.de"|]www.dgap-medientreff.de|[/a|]]]|] and |[![CDATA[|[a href="http://www.dgap.de"|]www.dgap.de|[/a|]]]|] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: HSH Nordbank AG Gerhart-Hauptmann-Platz 50 20095 Hamburg Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)40 33 33-0 Fax: +49 (0)40 33 33-340 01 E-mail: info@hsh-nordbank.com Internet: www.hsh-nordbank.com ISIN: DE0009842542 WKN: 984254 Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (General Standard), Hamburg End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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