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Selling the investment in subsidiary companies

TCAP.MDO181/2007

July 12, 2007

Subject To inform regarding the selling the investment in subsidiary companies subject to the share-holding re-structuring of the companies of Thanachart Group

To The President The Stock Exchange of Thailand

Reference
(1) The letter no. TCAP.MDO. 079/2550, subject to Information on the Acquisition or Disposal of Assets, dated March 29, 2007
(2) The Letter no. TCAP.MDO. 175/2550 subject to inform regarding the permission for selling the investment in subsidiary companies, dated July 9, 2007

As the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders for the year 2007 of Thanachart Capital Public Company Limited "The Company", held on April 30, 2007, approve to enable the Company to sell the investment of 8 subsidiary companies to Thanachart Bank Public Company Limited "the Bank". It purposed to re-structure the shareholding of Thanachart Group and the Bank of Thailand already had a permission to do. The details of these regards appear in the reference (2), which reported for your acknowledgement on July 9, 2007.

The Company would appreciate to inform that the Company has sold the investment by transferring whole of ordinary shares of the 8 financial and supporting business subsidiary companies, which held by the Company, to the Bank. In this regard, it seems appropriate to inform you relate to this matter as following details:

1. Date of the matter
Thursday, July 12, 2007

2.Amount of shares, Selling price and Shareholding portion of 8 subsidiaries

Subsidiary Companies
Shares Value
Par
Selling Price
(Each Company)
Shares Portion*
Thanachart Securities Public Company Limited
1,499,999.930
1
2,027,849,905.37
99.99
Thanachart Fund Management Company Limited
7,499,993
10
122,203,385.94
75.00
Thanachart Life Assurance Company Limited
49,999,400
10
935,718,771.24
99.99
Thanachart Insurance Company Limited
38,999,434
10
495,593,107.44
78.00
Thanachart Management and services Company Limited
599,993
10
11,263,968.59
99.99
Thanachart Legal and Appraisal Company Limited
999,993
10
12,816,910.28
99.99
Thanachart Group Leasing Company Limited
35,999,994
10
411,483,531.42
99.99
Thanachart Broker Company Limited
9,999,000
10
141,307,867.80
99.99
Total
4,158,237,448.08

*% of issued and paid up shares

The selling price of such matter is the price of the book value at the end of June, 2007, which has been already approved by the auditors, Ensrt and Young Company Limited, and not exceed than Baht 4,670 million which be approved by the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders for the year 2007, held on April 30, 2007.

3. Value of the matters
The Calculation of this matter is in the line with the regulation of Acquisition and Disposal of Assets 2004 B.E. The net profit from business operation Test is the most valuable matter as following:

Net asset value test
Net profit from operation test
Value of the consideration given or received
Thanachart Securities Public Company Limited
9.02
14.09
0.71
Thanachart Fund Management Company Limited
0.41
2.90
0.04
Thanachart Insurance Company Limited
1.58
1.51
0.17
Thanachart Life Assurance Company Limited
3.54
6.98
0.33
Thanachart Management and services Company Limited
0.07
0.13
0.00
Thanachart Legal and Appraisal Company Limited
0.05
0.05
0.00
Thanachart Group Leasing Company Limited
1.71
1.14
0.14
Thanachart Broker Company Limited
0.54
0.95
0.05
Total
16.92
27.75
1.44

Note : The value of assets which use for the calculation is the financial statement ended December 31, 2006

Thus, the most valuable matter is equaled to 27.75%

For your acknowledgement.

 

Yours Sincerely,
Thanachart Capital Public Company Limited

Suphadej Poonpipat

(Mr.Suphadej Poonpipat)
President and CEO

 

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