Voting rights announcements

LEONI AG exceeds 10 %

On 11 December, 2008 Leoni AG informs according to Article 26, Section 1 Sentence 2 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] that its voting rights on Leoni AG, Nuremberg, Germany, ISIN: DE0005408884, WKN: 540888, have reached the 10% limit of the voting rights on 10 December, 2008 due to a share buy-back programme launched on 14 October 2008. With the purchase of yesterday the share buy-back programme was successfully completed. By this, 10 percent of the share capital, equating to a maximum of 2,970,000 of a total of 29,700,000 shares, to be bought back at the most, were bought back at an average price of EUR 9.79 per share.