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1.
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Press
Release of the registrant dated October 16,
2008.
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Cosan
Limited Announces Revised Terms
of
Private Placement with Gávea
Investimentos
and
Mr. Rubens de Ometto Silveira Mello,
Including
Increasing Total Raised to US$200
million
São Paulo,
October 16, 2008 – Cosan Limited, a Bermuda exempted
company, announced that it has agreed to revised terms for the purchase of
its class A common shares by certain investment funds managed by
affiliates of Gávea
Investimentos Ltda. (the “Gávea Funds’’) and Mr. Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello, the controlling
shareholder of Cosan Limited. Under the revised terms, the Gávea Funds agree to collectively
invest up to US$150 million and Mr. Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello, directly
or through an entity under his control, agrees to invest a total of US$50 million, each
at US$4.50 per share. With these two subscriptions, Cosan Limited will
raise US$200 million, to be used to strengthen the capital structure of
the Cosan Group to support its growth, including possible future
acquisitions and other general corporate
purposes.
The Gávea Funds will acquire up to
33,333,333 new class A common shares, including in the form of Brazilian
Depositary Shares (“BDRs”, each representing one class A
common share), and Mr. Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello will acquire a total 11,111,111
new class A common shares. With respect to the BDRs, payment will be made
in reais based on a real to U.S. dollar rate to be determined at
closing.
Cosan Limited will extend the
current subscription period for eligible shareholders of record as of October
2, 2008, to subscribe at the new price until 7 p.m. (New York City time)
on October 24, 2008. Any subscription made under the prior terms is
automatically cancelled. Holders of (1) class A common shares who are
either (i) not “U.S. persons” (as such term is defined in
Regulation S under the Securities Act) or (ii) “qualified institutional
buyers” (as such term
is defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) and (2) BDRs will,
pursuant to exemptions from registration under applicable United States
securities laws, be eligible to subscribe for the number of new class A
common shares or BDRs, as the case may be, equivalent to their respective
percentage ownership in Cosan Limited as of the record date of October 2,
2008.
An amended subscription form is
available. Subscriptions for Cosan Limited's new class A common shares or
BDRs pursuant to the subscription offer will be binding
and
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irrevocable. The rights to
subscribe for class A common shares and BDRs are not transferable and not tradable on any
securities exchange.
The number of new class A common
shares and BDRs to be purchased by the Gávea Funds may be reduced in the
event that certain existing minorities shareholders of Cosan Limited
participate in the preemptive subscription offer, but the
Gávea
Funds’ total investment in Cosan Limited
will not be less than US$60 million.
Each one class A common share of
record as of October 2, 2008 will have the right to subscribe for up to
0.241231 new class A common shares.
About Cosan
Limited
Cosan Limited is a
leading global ethanol and sugar company with low-cost, large-scale and
integrated operations in Brazil with production based on sugarcane. Cosan
Limited is the largest grower and processor of sugarcane in the
world; the largest
ethanol producer in Brazil and the second largest in the world; and the
largest sugar producer in Brazil and one of the three largest sugar
producers in the world. The company operates 18 mills, two refineries, two
port facilities and numerous warehouses.
Cosan Limited is also engaged in energy cogeneration using sugarcane
bagasse as fuel.
CONTACT: COSAN S.A. Indústria e Comércio
Investor Relations
(IR)
Paulo
Diniz, CFO and
Investor Relations Officer
Luiz Felipe
Jansen Mello,
Investor
Relations Manager
Tel: (11)
3897-9797
E-mail: ri@cosan.com.br
website: www.cosan.com.br/ir
Media
Relations
Máquina da
Notícia
Press Office
Tel: (11) 3147-7900
The
securities offered have not been and will not be registered under the
Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent
registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.
The securities offered will not
be registered in any other jurisdiction.
This
release does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an
offer to buy or subscribe for nor shall there be any sale of or
subscription for these securities in any state or jurisdiction in
which
such offer, solicitation, sale or subscription would be unlawful prior to
registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state
or jurisdiction.
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COSAN
LIMITED
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Date:
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October
17, 2008
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By:
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/S/
Paulo Sérgio de Oliveira Diniz
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Name:
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Paulo
Sérgio de Oliveira Diniz
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Title:
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Chief
Financial Officer and Investors Relations Officer
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