Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. to Acquire ACOMON AG

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TRANSACTION ANNOUNCEMENT

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Wiesbaden, 7 April 2011

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Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. ("MCI", Toshikazu Tanaka, President & CEO) announced that on March 31, 2011 it entered into a share purchase and transfer agreement to acquire all shares of ACOMON AG (ACOMON) in Switzerland, a manufacturer and distributor of monomers for optical lenses, with its shareholders: funds managed by Auctus Capital Partners AG of Germany, the ACOMON management team and other co-investors. Through the share purchase and transfer, which was concluded on April 6, 2011, ACOMON became a 100% owned affiliate company of MCI.

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GVG Corporate Finance Advisors has acted as buy-side advisor in this transaction.