FINAL TERMS
relating to
COMMERZBANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
EUR 20,000,000 Fixed Rate Notes of 2007/2008issued under the
Notes/Certificates Programme
of
COMMERZBANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Date of the Final Terms: 20 August 2007 Series No.: A556
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This document constitutes the Final Terms relating to the issue of Notes under the Notes/Certificates Programme of Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft (the "Programme") and shall be read in conjunction with the Base Prospectus dated 17 November 2006 as supplemented from time to time. Full information on the Issuer and the offer of the Notes is only available on the basis of the combination of these Final Terms and the Base Prospectus and supplements thereto, if any. The Base Prospectus and any supplements will be available free of charge at the head office of the Issuer, Kaiserplatz, 60261 Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany and at the following website of Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft (www.newissues.de). The related Final Terms will be made available in the same form in the event of a public offering and/or listing and admission to trading on a regulated market of a member state of the European Economic Area.
I.
Terms and Conditions:
The Programme Terms and Conditions dated 17 November 2006 (the "Programme Terms and Conditions") shall be amended by incorporating the terms of the Final Terms, and by deleting all provisions not applicable to the respective Tranche of the respective Series (the "Consolidated Terms") in the form attached hereto as Annex 1. The Consolidated Terms shall replace the Programme Terms and Conditions in their entirety. If and to the extent the Consolidated Terms deviate from the Programme Terms and Conditions, the Consolidated Terms shall prevail.
II.
Other Conditions
Issue Date 20 August 2007
Issue Price 100%
Offer Period Not Applicable
Minimum subscription amount Maximum subscription amount
Not Applicable Not Applicable German Securities Identification No. CB5 WVQ
Common Code 031401607
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Other security code(s) None
Listing Luxembourg
Stabilising Agent None
Market Making Not Applicable
Targeted investor category Not Applicable
Additional Selling Restrictions Not Applicable
Additional Risk Factors Not Applicable
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Ratings: The Notes to be issued have not been and
will not be rated. Interests of natural and legal persons
involved in the issue/offer
So far as the Issuer is aware, no person involved in the offer of the Notes has an interest material to the offer.
Reasons for the offer, estimated net proceeds and total expenses
(i) Reasons for the offer The net proceeds from the issue of Notes will be applied by the Issuer for its general corporate purposes, which include making a profit.
(ii) Estimated net proceeds EUR 20,000,000
(iii) Estimated total expenses EUR 1,000
Indication of yield The Notes bear interest at a rate of 8.53%
p.a. (for Swiss tax purposes: interest premium is 3.5% p.a., option premium is 5.03% p.a.).
Floating Rate Notes only - past and future interest rates
Not Applicable
Redemption Structured and Interest Structured Notes only - performance of and other information concerning the Underlying, explanation of effect on value of investment and associated risks
Information on the Basket Shares can be found on the following internet page:
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Annex 1
The following terms and conditions apply to the Notes issued as Series No. A556 and Tranche No. 1 of that Series under the Notes/Certificates Programme of Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft (the "Programme").
§ 1
(FORM, TRANSFERABILITY)
(1) This issue of Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany (the "Issuer") is issued in Euro ("EUR") (the "Issue Currency") in the aggregate principal amount of EUR 20,000,000 (in words: twenty million Euro) represented by notes (the "Notes") payable to bearer and ranking pari passu among themselves in the denomination of EUR 1,000 (the "Denomination") each.
(2) The Notes will be represented by a permanent global bearer note (the "Global Note") without interest coupons. No definitive Notes will be issued and the right of delivery of definitive Notes is excluded. The Global Note shall be deposited with Deutsche Bank AG, Große Gallusstraße 10 - 14, 60272 Frankfurt am Main, as common depositary for Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, Luxembourg and Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. as operator of the Euroclear System (together the "Clearing System").
(3) The Global Note shall only be valid if it bears the hand-written signatures of two authorised officers of the Issuer.
(4) The Noteholders shall receive co-ownership participations in or rights with respect to the Global Note which are transferable in accordance with applicable law and the rules and regulations of the Clearing System.
(5) The term "Noteholder" in these Terms and Conditions refers to the holder of a co-ownership participation in or right with respect to the Global Note.
(6) The Notes can be transferred individually via the Clearing System.
(7) The Issuer reserves the right to issue from time to time without the consent of the Noteholders another tranche of Notes with substantially identical terms, so that the same shall be consolidated to form a single Series and increase the aggregate principal amount of the Notes. The term "Notes" shall, in the event of such consolidation, also comprise such additionally issued notes.
§ 2 (INTEREST)
(1) The Notes bear interest at a rate of 8.53% p.a. as from 20 August 2007 (the "Interest Commencement Date") (inclusive) (for Swiss tax purposes: interest premium is 3.5% p.a., option premium is 5.03% p.a.). Interest is payable in arrear on 19 August 2008.
(2) The Notes will cease to bear interest at the end of the day preceding the date on which they become due for redemption, even if payment is made later than on the due date determined by the calendar in accordance with § 5 Paragraph (3).
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which the necessary funds have been provided to the Principal Paying Agent and notice thereof has been given by publication in accordance with § 12.
(4) The calculation of interest shall be effected on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed divided by 365 or (if a 29 February falls within the relevant interest determination period) divided by 366.
§ 3 (REPAYMENT)1
(1) Subject to Paragraph (2) below, the Notes will be redeemed at par (the "Redemption Amount") on 19 August 2008 (the "Redemption Date").
(2) If for one or more of the Basket Shares (i) during the Monitoring Period the Reference Price A on the relevant Exchange of such Basket Share has at least once been equal to or below the Knock-in Level attributed to such Basket Share and if (ii) on the Valuation Date the Reference Price B of such Basket Share is below the Strike Price attributed to such Basket Share, each Note shall be redeemed by the Redemption Amount calculated according to the following formula:
where:
"Basket Sharei" means the Basket Sharesi for which (i) during the Monitoring Period the
Reference Price A on the Relevant Exchange of such Basket Sharei has never been equal to
or below the Knock-in Level attributed to such Basket Sharei or for which (ii) on the Valuation
Date the Reference Price B of such Basket Sharei is at or above the Strike Price attributed to
such Basket Share.
"Basket Sharek" means the Basket Sharesk for which (i) during the Monitoring Period the
Reference Price A on the Relevant Exchange of such Basket Sharek has at least once been
equal to or below the Knock-in Level attributed to such Basket Sharek and for which (ii) on the
Valuation Date the Reference Price B of such Basket Sharek is below the Strike Price
attributed to such Basket Share.
"Basket Sharek initial"means the Strike Price of the respective Basket Sharek.
"Basket Sharek final"means the Reference Price B of the respective Basket Sharesk.
(3) If on the Valuation Date the Reference Price B of a Basket Share is not determined and published by the relevant Exchange, or if on the Valuation Date, in the opinion of the Issuer, a Market Disruption Event with respect to a Basket Share occurs, then the next following calendar day on which the Reference Price B of the affected Basket Share is again determined and published by the relevant Exchange and on which there is no Market Disruption Event will be deemed to be the Valuation Date for the affected Basket Share.
If according to the provisions above the Valuation Date for an affected Basket Share is postponed until the second Business Day prior to the Redemption Date and if on such date the Reference Price of such affected Basket Share is still not determined and published by the relevant Exchange or if a Market Disruption Event occurs or is continuing on such date, such second Business Day prior to the Redemption Date shall be deemed to be the relevant
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Unless otherwise specified, terms in capital letters are defined in § 3 Paragraph (8).
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Valuation Date for the affected Basket Share, and the Issuer shall - after consultation with an independent expert, if the Issuer deems it necessary - estimate the Reference Price B of such Basket Share in its reasonable discretion (§ 315 German Civil Code (BGB)) and with respect to the prevailing market conditions on such day.
(4) A "Market Disruption Event" means the occurrence or existence of any suspension of, or limitation imposed on, trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding the limits permitted by the relevant Exchange or otherwise) in (a) a Basket Share on the relevant Exchange, or (b) any options contracts or futures contracts relating to a Basket Share on the Related Exchange, provided that, in the reasonable discretion of the Calculation Agent, in any such case such suspension or limitation is material.
A limitation regarding the office hours or the number of days of trading will not constitute a Market Disruption Event if it results from an announced change in the regular business hours of the relevant exchange. A limitation on trading imposed during the course of a day by reason of movements in price exceeding permitted limits shall only be deemed to be a Market Disruption Event in the case that such limitation is still prevailing at the time of termination of the trading hours on such date.
(5) In the case of the occurrence of an Adjustment Event (as defined in Paragraph (6) below) the Calculation Agent can, but is not obliged to, make adjustments to the provisions for the determination of the redemption (subject to Paragraph (7) below) in the same or substantially similar manner as the Related Exchange adjusts its option contracts relating to the Underlying. If no option contracts for the Underlying are traded on the Related Exchange, the Calculation Agent will adjust the provisions for the calculation of the redemption (subject to Paragraph (7) below) in the same or substantially similar manner as the Related Exchange would make such adjustments if option contracts for the Underlying were traded there. In the case of doubt as to the application of the adjustment rules of the Related Exchange, the Calculation Agent will in its reasonable discretion (§ 315 of the German Civil Code) decide upon the application of the adjustment rules. Adjustments will become effective at the time when such adjustments become effective on the Related Exchange, or, as the case may be, would become effective, if equivalent option contracts were traded there.
(6) "Adjustment Event" means any action taken by a Basket Company which triggers an adjustment on the Related Exchange, or, as the case may be, would trigger an adjustment if equivalent option contracts for the Underlying were traded there, relating to any of the following: the strike price of the contract, the contract size, the underlying asset under the contract or the designation of any stock exchange relevant to that contract. Such action by a Basket Company typically includes the following, provided however that, save for cases referred to in Paragraph (7), the actual or hypothetical decision of the Related Exchange shall in each case be decisive: (a) Capital increases against contributions through the issuance of new shares of the
Company subject to shareholders' subscription rights, capital increases from reserves, issuance of securities with option or conversion rights into the shares of the Company, distributions of extraordinary dividends or stock splits;
(b) a spin-off of a part of the Company in such a way that a new independent entity is formed, or that the part of the Company which is spun-off is merged into another entity; (c) the definitive termination of the listing of the Underlying due to a merger by absorption or
formation of a new entity or for any other reason.
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alia affect the Knock-in Level and/or the Strike Price and may lead to the Underlying being replaced by other securities, a basket of securities and/or cash or, in the case of a merger, by shares of the merged or newly formed entity in any suitable number or to the designation of a different stock exchange as the Exchange.
(8) For the purposes of these Terms and Conditions, the following definitions shall apply:
"Basket Company" means each of the companies issuing the Basket Shares, as specified in the table in the definition of "Basket Shares", subject to adjustment in accordance with paragraph (5)-(7).
"Basket Share", "Strike Price", "Knock-in-Level" "Exchange" means any of the following (subject to adjustment in accordance with paragraph (5)-(7)):
Basket Share Strike Price Knock-in
Level
Exchange
Ordinary share of Aegon N.V. (ISIN NL0000303709)
EUR 13.68 EUR 8.70 Amsterdam Stock Exchange
(Euronext Amsterdam S.A.) Registered share of Deutsche Post
Aktiengesellschaft (ISIN DE0005552004)
EUR 21.96 EUR 15.37 Frankfurt Stock Exchange
(XETRA) Registered share of Deutsche Lufthansa
Aktiengesellschaft (ISIN DE0008232125)
EUR 20.67 EUR 13.06 Frankfurt Stock Exchange
(XETRA) Ordinary share of Bayerische Motoren Werke
Aktiengesellschaft (ISIN DE0005190003)
EUR 46.30 EUR 31.62 Frankfurt Stock Exchange
(XETRA) Ordinary share of Alcatel Lucent S.A.
(ISIN FR0000130007)
EUR 9.87 EUR 5.99 Paris Stock Exchange
(Euronext Paris S.A.) Ordinary share of Société Générale S.A.
(ISIN FR0000130809)
EUR 130.94 EUR 87.86 Paris Stock Exchange
(Euronext Paris S.A.) Ordinary share of Suez S.A.
(ISIN FR0000120529)
EUR 39.76 EUR 26.40 Paris Stock Exchange
(Euronext Paris S.A.)
"Exchange" means any or all, as the case may be, of the exchanges as detailed in the table of the definition "Basket Share", subject to adjustment in accordance with paragraph (5)-(7)).
"Knock-in Level" means the price as detailed in the table of the definition “Basket Share”, subject to adjustment in accordance with paragraph (5)-(7).
"Monitoring Period" means the period from and including the Strike Date until and including the Valuation Date. If the Valuation Date for one or more of the Basket Share is postponed, the Monitoring Period for the affected Basket Share is postponed as well. "Reference Price A" with respect to a Basket Share means any price of such Basket Share as
determined and published by the relevant Exchange within the Monitoring Period.
"Reference Price B" with respect to a Basket Share means the official closing price of such Basket Share as determined and published by the relevant Exchange.
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"Strike Date" means 25 July 2007.
"Strike Price" with means the price as detailed in the table of the definition "Basket Share", subject to adjustment in accordance with, subject to adjustment in accordance with Paragraph (7)-(9).
"Valuation Date" means 23 July 2008.
(9) All determinations made by the Issuer and/or the Calculation Agent pursuant to this § 3 shall be notified to the Noteholder in accordance with § 12 and shall, in the absence of a manifest error, be conclusive and binding on all parties.
§ 4
(EARLY REDEMPTION, REPURCHASE OF NOTES)
(1) The Issuer shall not be entitled to redeem the Notes prior to the Redemption Date.
(2) Except as provided in § 10, the Noteholders shall not be entitled to call for a redemption of the Notes prior to the Redemption Date.
(3) If the Notes are called for redemption due to an event having occurred as described in § 10 they shall be redeemed at the "Early Redemption Amount" which shall be determined as the fair market value which the Notes would have had on the date of early redemption if the event having occurred as described in § 10 had not occurred, less the costs to the Issuer of unwinding any related underlying hedging arrangements.
(4) The Issuer may at any time purchase Notes in the market or otherwise. Notes repurchased by or on behalf of the Issuer may be held by the Issuer, re-issued, resold or surrendered to the Principal Paying Agent for cancellation.
§ 5 (PAYMENTS)
(1) The Issuer irrevocably undertakes to pay, as and when due, all amounts payable pursuant to these Terms and Conditions in the Issue Currency.
(2) Payments of all amounts payable pursuant to the Terms and Conditions will be made against presentation, and in the case of the last payment, against surrender of the Global Note to the Principal Paying Agent for transfer to the Clearing System or pursuant to the Clearing System's instruction for credit to the relevant accountholders of the Clearing System. Payment to the Clearing System or pursuant to the Clearing System's instruction shall release the Issuer from its payment obligations under the Notes in the amount of such payment.
(3) If any payment of principal or interest with respect to a Note is to be effected on a day other than a Payment Business Day, payment shall be effected on the next following Payment Business Day. In this case, the relevant Noteholder shall neither be entitled to any payment claim nor to any interest claim or other compensation with respect to such delay.
"Payment Business Day" means a day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets in New York and the Clearing System settle payments in the Issue Currency.
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(b) the Early Redemption Amount in the case of early redemption of the Notes pursuant to § 10.
(5) All payments are subject in all cases to any applicable fiscal or other laws, regulations and directives.
(6) The Issuer may deposit with the Amtsgericht, Frankfurt am Main, principal not claimed by Noteholders within 12 months after its respective due date, even though the respective Noteholders may not be in default of acceptance. If and to the extent that the deposit is made under waiver of the right of withdrawal, the respective claims of the respective Noteholders against the Issuer shall cease.
§ 6 (TAXES)
All present and future taxes, fees or other duties in connection with the Notes shall be borne and paid by the Noteholders. The Issuer is entitled to withhold from payments to be made under the Notes any taxes, fees and/or duties payable by the Noteholder in accordance with the previous sentence.
§ 7
(PRESENTATION PERIODS, PRESCRIPTION)
The period for presentation of the Notes (§ 801, Paragraph 1, Sentence 1 of the German Civil Code) shall be ten years and the period of limitation for claims under the Notes presented during the period for presentation shall be two years calculated from the expiry of the relevant presentation period.
§ 8 (STATUS)
The obligations under the Notes constitute direct, unconditional and unsecured obligations of the Issuer and rank at least pari passu with all other unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the Issuer (save for such exceptions as may exist from time to time under applicable law).
§ 9
(
AGENTS)
(1) Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Kaiserplatz, 60261 Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany, shall be the "Principal Paying Agent". The Issuer shall procure that there will at all times be a Principal Paying Agent.
Commerzbank International, S.A., 25, rue Edward Steichen, 2540 Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, shall be appointed additional paying agent (the "Paying Agent" together with the Principal Paying Agent, the "Paying Agents"). The Issuer is entitled to appoint other banks of international standing as Principal Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent. Furthermore, the Issuer is entitled to terminate the appointment of the Principal Paying Agent as well as of individual Paying Agents. In the event of such termination or such bank being unable or unwilling to continue to act as Principal Paying Agent or Paying Agent, the Issuer shall appoint another bank of international standing as Principal Paying Agent or Paying Agent. Such appointment or termination shall be published without undue delay in accordance with § 12. (2) Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Kaiserplatz, 60261 Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of
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all times be a Calculation Agent. The Issuer reserves the right at any time to terminate the appointment of the Calculation Agent. In the event of such termination or of the appointed office of any such bank being unable or unwilling to continue to act as Calculation Agent (as the case may be) the Issuer shall appoint an appropriate office of another leading bank to act Calculation Agent. The appointment of another Calculation Agent shall be published without delay by the Issuer in accordance with § 12.
(3) The Paying Agents and the Calculation Agent shall be held responsible for giving, failing to give, or accepting a declaration, or for acting or failing to act, only if, and insofar as, they fail to act with the diligence of a conscientious businessman. All determinations and calculations made by the Paying Agents and the Calculation Agent shall be made in conjunction with the Issuer and shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive in all respects and binding upon the Issuer and all Noteholders.
(4) The Paying Agents and the Calculation Agent acting in such capacity, act only as agents of the Issuer. There is no agency or fiduciary relationship between the Paying Agents and the Calculation Agent on the one hand and the Noteholders on the other hand. The Paying Agents and the Calculation Agent are hereby granted exemption from the restrictions of § 181 of the German Civil Code and any similar restrictions of the applicable laws of any other country.
§ 10 (TERMINATION)
(1) Each holder of Notes is entitled to declare his Notes due and to require the redemption of his Notes at the Early Redemption Amount pursuant to § 4 Paragraph (3) as provided hereinafter, if:
(a) the Issuer is in default for more than 30 days in the payment of principal under these Terms and Conditions;
(b) the Issuer violates any other obligation under these Terms and Conditions, and such violation continues for 60 days after receipt of written notice thereof from the respective Noteholder;
(c) the Issuer is wound up or dissolved whether by a resolution of the shareholders or otherwise (except in connection with a merger or reorganisation in such a way that all of the assets and liabilities of the Issuer pass to another legal person in universal succession by operation of law);
(d) the Issuer ceases its payments and this continues for 60 days, or admits to be unable to pay its debts;
(e) any insolvency proceedings are instituted against the Issuer which shall not have been dismissed or stayed within 60 days after their institution or the Issuer applies for the institution of such proceedings, or offers or makes an arrangement for the benefit of its creditors or the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) opens insolvency proceedings against the Issuer or
(f) in the case of a substitution of the Issuer within the meaning of § 11 Paragraph (4)(b) any of the events set forth in sub-paragraphs (c)-(e) above occurs in respect of the Guarantor. The right to declare Notes due shall terminate if the circumstances giving rise to it have been remedied before such right is exercised.
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§ 11
(SUBSTITUTION OF ISSUER, BRANCH DESIGNATION)
(1) Any other company may assume at any time during the life of the Notes, subject to § 11 Paragraph (4), without the Noteholders' consent upon notice by the Issuer given through publication in accordance with § 12, all the obligations of the Issuer under these Terms and Conditions.
(2) Upon any such substitution, such substitute company (hereinafter called the "New Issuer") shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Issuer under these Terms and Conditions with the same effect as if the New Issuer had been named as the Issuer herein; the Issuer (and, in the case of a repeated application of this § 11, each previous New Issuer) shall be released from its obligations hereunder and from its liability as obligor under the Notes .
(3) In the event of such substitution, any reference in these Terms and Conditions (except for this § 11) to the "Issuer" shall from then on be deemed to refer to the New Issuer and any reference to the country of the corporate seat of the Issuer which is to be substituted (except for the references in § 13 to the Federal Republic of Germany) shall be deemed to refer to the country of the corporate seat of the New Issuer and the country under the laws of which it is organised. (4) No such assumption shall be permitted unless
(a) the New Issuer has agreed to indemnify and hold harmless each Noteholder against any tax, duty, assessment or governmental charge imposed on such Noteholder in respect of such substitution;
(b) the Issuer (in this capacity referred to as the "Guarantor") has unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed to the Noteholders compliance by the New Issuer with all payment obligations assumed by it under guarantee terms usually given by the Guarantor with respect to note issues by any of its finance companies and the text of this guarantee has been published in accordance with § 12; and
(c) the New Issuer and the Guarantor have obtained all governmental authorisations, approvals, consents and permissions necessary in the jurisdictions in which the Guarantor and/or the New Issuer are domiciled or the country under the laws of which they are organised.
(5) Upon any substitution of the Issuer for a New Issuer, this § 11 shall apply again.
(6) The Issuer may at any time, designate by publication in accordance with § 12 any branch (Betriebsstätte) of the Issuer outside the Federal Republic of Germany as the branch (Betriebsstätte) primarily responsible for the due and punctual payment in respect of the Notes then outstanding and the performance of all of the Issuer's other obligations under the Notes then outstanding.
Paragraphs (4)(c) and (5) of this § 11 shall apply mutatis mutandis to such designation.
§ 12 (NOTICES)
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Clearing System shall be deemed to be effected seven days after the notification to the Clearing System, direct notices to the Noteholders shall be deemed to be effected upon their receipt. (2) The text of any publication to be made in accordance with this § 12 shall also be available at the
Paying Agent's appointed at the place of the relevant stock exchange.
§ 13
(FINAL CLAUSES)
(1) The form and content of the Notes and the rights and duties of the Noteholders, the Issuer, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall in all respects be governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany.
(2) Should any provision of these Terms and Conditions be or become void in whole or in part, the other provisions shall remain in force. Void provisions shall be replaced in accordance with the meaning and purpose of these Terms and Conditions.
(3) Place of performance is Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany. (4) Place of jurisdiction shall be Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany.
(5) The courts of the Federal Republic of Germany shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the annulment of lost or destroyed Notes.
(6) The English version of these Terms and Conditions shall be binding. Any translation is for convenience only.
Frankfurt am Main 20 August 2007
