Prospectus - Notowania

(a) Risks relating to the available nature and volatility of the Shares;
(b) Guarantee commitments and risks associated with the partial execution of the capital
increase;
(c) Risks associated with the performance of the option rights market;
(d) Diluting effects;
(e) Exclusion of the markets on which the Offer is not permitted.
(B) Information on the Issuer
The Issuer
The Issuer is a joint-stock company founded in Genoa, Italy under private deed drawn up on April 28,
1870, with a duration until December 31, 2050, registered offices in Via A. Specchi 16, Rome, Italy
and Head Offices in Piazza Cordusio 2, Milan, Italy, enrolled in the Rome Companies’ Register under
No. 00348170101. The Issuer is also enrolled in the Register of Banks and is the parent company of
the UniCredit Banking Group, enrolled in the Register of Banking Groups, No. 3135.1, and is a
member of the Interbank Guarantee Fund.
Issued share capital
As of the Date of the Prospectus, the Issuer’s share capital, fully subscribed and paid in, amounted to
€8,389,869,514.00, divided up into (i) 16,755,500,045 ordinary shares with a par value of €0.50 each
and into (ii) 24,238,983 savings shares with a par value of €0.50 each.
Corporate purpose
Pursuant to Section 4 of the Articles of Association, the purpose of the Bank:
“is to engage in deposit-taking and lending in its various forms, in Italy and abroad, operating
wherever in accordance with prevailing norms and practice. It may execute, while complying with
prevailing legal requirements, all permitted transactions and services of a banking and financial
nature. In order to achieve its corporate purpose as efficiently as possible, the Bank may engage in
any activity that is instrumental or in any case related to the above. The Bank, in compliance with
current legal provisions, may issue bonds and acquire shareholdings in Italy and abroad”.
History and growth of the Issuer and the Group
UniCredit (formerly Unicredito Italiano S.p.A.) and the Group of companies with the same name
which the latter heads up came about as a result of the merger, in October 1998, between the then
Credito Italiano S.p.A., founded in 1870 under the name of Banca di Genova, and Unicredito S.p.A.,
the latter the holding company which held the controlling equity investments in Banca CRT, CRV and
Cassamarca. As a result of this merger, the Credito Italiano Group and the Unicredito Group pooled
the strength of their respective products and the complementary nature of the geographic coverage for
the purpose of more effectively competing on the banking and financial services markets both in Italy
and in Europe, thereby creating the UniCredit Group.
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