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LSF6 Rio S.à r.l. announces the completion and final results of its cash tender offer for the Hybrid Notes and Capital Notes - Seite 3

any purported tender of Notes made by a U.S. Person, a person located in
the United States, by any person acting for the account or benefit of a
U.S. Person, or by any agent, fiduciary or other intermediary acting on a
non-discretionary basis for a principal giving instructions from within the
United States will be invalid and will not be accepted.

Each Noteholder participating in the Offer will represent that it is not a
U.S. Person and is not participating in such Offer from the United States,
or it is acting on a non-discretionary basis for a principal located
outside the United States that is not giving an order to participate in the
Offer from the United States and who is not a U.S. Person. For the purposes
of this and the above paragraph, "United States" means the United States of
America, its territories and possessions (including Puerto Rico, the U.S.
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana
Islands), any state of the United States of America and the District of
Columbia.

United Kingdom

The communication of this press release, the Tender Offer Memorandum and
any other documents or materials relating to the Offer have not been
approved by an authorised person for the purposes of section 21 of the
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ("FSMA"). Accordingly, such
documents and/or materials are not being distributed to, and must not be
passed on to, persons in the United Kingdom save in circumstances where
section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply. The communication of this press
release or the Tender Offer Memorandum is only being made to those persons
in the United Kingdom falling within the definition of investment
professionals (as defined in Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and
Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the "Order")) or within
Article 43 of the Order, or to other persons to whom it may otherwise
lawfully be communicated by virtue of an exemption to section 21(1) of the
FSMA or otherwise in circumstances where it does not apply.

Republic of Italy

None of the Offer, this press release, the Tender Offer Memorandum or any
other documents or materials relating to the Offer have been or will be
submitted to the clearance procedure of the Commissione Nazionale per le
Società e la Borsa ("CONSOB"). The Offer is being carried out in the
Republic of Italy ("Italy") as an exempted offer pursuant to article
101-bis, paragraph 3-bis of the Legislative Decree No. 58 of 24 February
1998, as amended (the "Financial Services Act") and article 35-bis,