News in brief: Atos Origin greenshoe exercised.

Financial News, February, 2004

ABN Amro Rothschild and Goldman Sachs mexercised the greenshoe in the sale of shares by Schlumberger, the French oil company, in Atos Origin, the French IT services firm. The banks placed an additional one million Atos shares to increase the deal size from [euro]455m ($566m) to [euro]510m.Schlumberger had received a 28.9% stake in Atos when it sold SchlumbergerSema, an IT unit to Atos last year, when it was advised by ABN and Goldman. Schlumberger retains approximately 14.5% of Atos.

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