Nomura Announces Adjustment to Conversion Price for
Subordinated Convertible Bonds
Tokyo, May 1, 2009 – Nomura Holdings, Inc. today announced that the conversion price for its First Series of Unsecured Subordinated Convertible Bonds with Stock Acquisition Rights issued on December 16, 2008, will be adjusted from 438.2 yen to 436.5 yen effective from May 1, 2009.
The adjustment, which is necessary under the covenant for adjusting the conversion price of the bonds, is in response to the granting of stock acquisition rights as stock options to executive officers and employees of overseas subsidiaries of Nomura Holdings on April 30, 2009, as resolved at a meeting of Nomura's Executive Management Board on April 17, 2009.
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