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Recommended cash offer (the Offer) by Theta Bidco
Limited (Bidco), a newly incorporated company directly or indirectly owned
by joint offerors IHC Industrial Holding LLC (IHC) and TasHeel Holding
Group LLC ("TasHeel"), for Arena Events Group Plc (Arena).
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publication of electronic versions of materials relating to the Offer.
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ONEROUS.
THIS MICROSITE CONTAINS ANNOUNCEMENTS, DOCUMENTS AND
INFORMATION (THE INFORMATION) PUBLISHED BY IHC, TASHEEL, BIDCO AND ARENA RELATING TO THE
OFFER IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE CITY CODE ON TAKEOVERS AND MERGERS (THE CODE). THE
INFORMATION IS BEING MADE AVAILABLE IN GOOD FAITH AND FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY, AND
ITS AVAILABILITY IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET OUT BELOW.
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Microsite and, depending upon who you are and where you live, it may affect your rights.
This notice and the information contained herein may be altered or updated from time to
time, and should be read in full carefully each time you visit this part of the website. In
addition, the contents of the Microsite may be amended at any time, in whole or in part, at
our sole discretion.
Nothing on the Microsite, nor anything which can be downloaded from it,
is intended to, and does not, constitute or form any part of an offer for sale or
subscription or any solicitation for any offer to purchase or subscribe for any securities,
or the solicitation of any votes attaching to securities which are the subject of the Offer
in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful.
The full terms and conditions of the Offer will be set out in the
formal Offer document or Scheme document. In deciding whether or not to accept the Offer,
Arena shareholders should rely only on the information contained in the formal Offer
document or Scheme document.
Terms defined in the announcement of the Offer dated 20 October 2021
shall have the same meaning when used in this notice.
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The Information has been prepared for the purposes of complying with
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or announcement and reserve the right to add to, remove or amend any information reproduced
on this Microsite at any time.
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nor Arena nor any of its advisors, assumes any responsibility for any violation by any
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affiliated companies, have reviewed, and no such person is or shall be responsible for or
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this Microsite may contain forward-looking statements regarding IHC's, TasHeel's and Bidco™s
respective financial positions, business strategy, plans and objectives of management for
future operations and are naturally subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. All
statements other than statements of historical facts included in any document may be forward
looking statements. Forward-looking statements also often use words such as anticipate,
believe, intend, estimate, expect, target, may, should, will and words of similar meaning.
By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate
to future events and circumstances, and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on
such statements. The important factors that could cause IHC's, TasHeel's and Bidco™s actual
results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking
statements include, among others, the satisfaction of the Conditions to the Offer, the
impact of COVID-19, factors affecting the industry as a whole and changes in law or
regulation. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of the respective
documents. IHC, TasHeel and Bidco expressly disclaim any obligation or undertaking to update
or revise any forward-looking statement (except to the extent legally required).
Unless expressly stated otherwise, no statement contained or referred to
in this Microsite is intended to be a profit forecast.
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