DGAP-Adhoc: InFin Innovative Finance AG: : InFin Innovative Finance AG takes over 100 % of Mars One Ventures PLC
04.11.2016 – 20:41
DGAP-Ad-hoc: InFin Innovative Finance AG / Key word(s): Takeover InFin Innovative Finance AG: : InFin Innovative Finance AG takes over 100 % of Mars One Ventures PLC 04.11.2016 / 20:39 Disclosure of an inside information according to Article 17 MAR. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- InFin Innovative Finance AG takes over 100 % of Mars One Ventures PLC Basel, 4th November 2016 - The shareholders of Mars One Ventures PLC ("Mars One Ventures") based in London, United Kingdom, and the Swiss financial holding company, InFin Innovative Finance AG ("InFin") based in Basel, Switzerland, have signed a binding sales agreement, according to which InFin takes over 100 percent of Mars One Ventures. The transaction is subject to the consent of the shareholders of InFin at the extraordinary shareholder meeting of InFin, to take place on the 2nd December 2016. The takeover values Mars One Ventures at 107 million Euro. InFin Innovative Finance AG will be renamed Mars One Ventures AG. Bas Lansdorp, M.Sc. (Founder of Mars One) will be the Chairman of the Board. Other board members will be Prof. Moritz Hunzinger as CEO (the current CEO of InFin) and Suzanne Flinkenflögel, M.A. (Director of Communications of Mars One). About Mars One Mars One aims to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Before carefully selected and trained crews will depart to Mars, several unmanned missions will be completed, establishing a habitable settlement waiting for the first astronauts to arrive. Mars One consists of two entities: the Dutch not-for-profit Stichting Mars One (Mars One Foundation) and a British public limited company Mars One Ventures PLC (Mars One Ventures). The Mars One Foundation implements, and manages the mission and owns the mission hardware. It also selects and trains the crews, and is building an ever growing community of experts and supporters that follow the progress of the mission and contribute to it. Mars One Ventures holds the exclusive monetization rights around the Mars One mission. There are many revenue possibilities around the mission to Mars: merchandise, ads on video content, broadcasting rights, partnerships, Intellectual Property, events, games, apps, and many more. For more information about Mars One, please visit www.mars-one.com. About InFin Innovative Finance InFin Innovative Finance AG (Basel, Switzerland) provides innovative services within the scope of financing, setting up, building, acquiring, managing and selling companies and participations in companies at home and abroad as well as holding and managing licenses and patents of all kinds. After the completion of the full takeover of Mars One, the company will trade as "Mars One Ventures AG" and henceforth change its business purpose accordingly. For more information about InFin, please visit infin-innovative.com. Contact: ir@infin-innovative.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04.11.2016 The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive at www.dgap.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: InFin Innovative Finance AG Birsigstr. 2 4054 Basel Switzerland Phone: +41 61 312 34 11 E-mail: ir@infin-innovative.com Internet: www.infin-innovative.com ISIN: CH0132106482 WKN: A14NYB Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (General Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Munich End of News DGAP News Service -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 517769 04.11.2016