Urbana Corporation pleased with the Settlement of Exercise Right Appeals regarding the Chicago Board Options Exchange
Toronto, Ontario – December 1st, 2009 – Urbana Corporation (“Urbana”) (TSX: URB / URB.A) invests in seats and shares of private and public securities exchanges in North America and around the world. Urbana’s largest single exchange investment is 23 seats on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (“CBOE”). As of last night’s close, Urbana’s CBOE investment was worth $67,898,875 million or approximately 39% of the value of the portfolio.
On Monday, November 30, 2009, the CBOE announced they “have reached a settlement of the appeals in the exercise right litigation. Under this settlement, CBOE would pay the appealing parties an aggregate amount of $4,171,243 to settle all appeals. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (“CME”) would reimburse the CBOE for one-half of this settlement about so CBOE’s net payment would be $2,085,621.50.
This settlement is conditioned on the Delaware Supreme Court granting that dismissal within two weeks.
The CBOE believes this settlement of the appeals would eliminate all remaining litigation impediments to demutualization within days or weeks instead of months and would avoid further legal expenses related to the appeals.”
There CBOE has also implemented a seat transaction moratorium from 7am – 10am today.
Urbana views this as a positive development for its holdings in the CBOE.
Please contact:
Elizabeth Naumovski, Investor Relations at 416-595-9106 for further information.
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