| 28th September - In the voluntary
public takeover offer to acquire all outstanding shares in LHS Aktiengesellschaft
(ISIN DE000LHS4000, WKN LHS400), Ericsson, through an indirectly held wholly owned
subsidiary, has purchased shares and received acceptances representing together
approximately 84 percent of the outstanding shares and voting rights in LHS. The
statutory additional acceptance period will run until October 8, 2007. All conditions
to the offer have been fulfilled.
The offer has been accepted for 2,475,462
LHS shares as of the end of the acceptance period, which in addition to the 9,742,780
LHS shares acquired by Ericsson, amounts to 12,218,242 LHS shares, representing
approximately 84 percent of the total number of LHS shares outstanding.
Pursuant
to German takeover law, an additional acceptance period will run until October
8, 2007, allowing all LHS shareholders who have not yet accepted the offer the
chance to still do so.
On September 18, 2007, Ericsson declared that
all the conditions to the offer had been fulfilled during the acceptance period.
Ericsson intends to complete the offer in accordance with the procedure
described in the offer document.
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