TeliaSonera Exercises Mandate to Buy Back Shares to Cover Commitments under the “Long Term Incentive Program 2011/2014”

22 Apr 2014 16:17

TeliaSonera AB (OSE:TEL) (STO:TLSN) (HEX:TLS1V) (LSE:TEE) (Nasdaq:TLSN)

TeliaSonera exercises mandate to buy back shares to cover commitments under the “Long Term Incentive Program 2011/2014”.

The Board of Directors has today decided to exercise the mandate for the buyback of shares that was approved by the Annual General Meeting on April 2, 2014. To cover commitments under the “Long Term Incentive Program 2011/2014”, approved by the Annual General Meeting in 2011, the Board decided to buy back a maximum of 140,000 shares. The buy backs will take place between April 24 and April 29, 2014. The shares will be bought back on the Nasdaq OMX Stockholm exchange at a price within the spread between the highest bid price and lowest ask price prevailing at any given time on the exchange. The total amount of registered shares in TeliaSonera is 4,330,084,781. The company has no treasury shares.

TeliaSonera AB discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the Swedish Securities Markets Act and/or the Swedish Financial Instrument Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication at 5 p.m. CET on April 22, 2014.

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