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AIXTRON SE / Key word(s): Offer/Mergers & Acquisitions

08.12.2016 14:03

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transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG.
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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AIXTRON SE: Lapse of Takeover Offer by Grand Chip Investment GmbH

Herzogenrath, Germany, December 8, 2016 - AIXTRON SE (FSE: AIXA, AIXC;
NASDAQ: AIXG), one of the world's leading providers of deposition equipment
to the semiconductor industry, announced today that Grand Chip Investment
GmbH (GCI) declared today that the voluntary public takeover offer for the
acquisition of all shares, including all shares represented by ADSs, of
AIXTRON SE (AIXTRON) by GCI published on July 29, 2016 has lapsed due to
the non-fulfillment of an offer condition.

According to the announcement of GCI, the offer condition of the clearance
of the transaction by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United
States (CFIUS) or the U.S. President laid out in Section 4.2.2 (ii) of the
offer document has not been fulfilled as a consequence of the order of the
President of the United States dated December 2, 2016 prohibiting the
acquisition of the U.S. business of AIXTRON by the Chinese bidder.

Hence, the public takeover process initiated by GCI has come to end in a
way that it cannot be consummated any more.

The announcement of GCI can be downloaded from the website of the German
Federal Gazette, Bundesanzeiger (www.bundesanzeiger.de).

Contact:

Guido Pickert
Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
T: [phone]
F: [phone]
[e-mail]

For further information on AIXTRON (FSE: AIXA/AIXC, ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6/
DE000A2BPYT0; NASDAQ: AIXG, ISIN US0096061041) please consult our website
at http://www.aixtron.com.



Additional information

This document is for informational purposes only and is neither an offer to
purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell securities. The takeover
offer for the outstanding ordinary shares (including ordinary shares
represented by American depositary shares) of AIXTRON SE commenced on 29
July 2016. The terms and conditions of the takeover offer have been
published in, and the solicitation and offer to purchase ordinary shares
(including ordinary shares represented by American depositary shares) are
made only pursuant to, the offer document and related offer materials
prepared by Grand Chip Investment GmbH and as approved by the German
Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für
Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, "BaFin"). AIXTRON SE has filed a