United Company RUSAL Plc: Inside Information Announcement Intention to Float of a Substantial Shareholder

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United Company Rusal Plc (Paris:RUSAL) (Paris:RUAL):

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This announcement is for information purposes only and does not constitute an invitation or offer to acquire, purchase or subscribe for securities in the Company. This announcement is not an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities and neither this announcement nor anything herein forms the basis for any contract or commitment whatsoever.

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UNITED COMPANY RUSAL PLC
(Incorporated under the laws of Jersey with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 486)

INSIDE INFORMATION ANNOUNCEMENT
INTENTION TO FLOAT OF A SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER

This announcement is made by the Company pursuant to Rule 13.09 of the Listing Rules and the Inside Information Provisions under Part XIVA of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong).

The Company announces that on 5 October 2017 En+, a substantial shareholder of the Company, announced its intention to proceed with an initial public offering of global depositary receipts representing ordinary shares of En+ to be admitted to the official list of the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority and to trading on the main market for listed securities of the London Stock Exchange plc and on the Moscow Exchange.

Shareholders and potential investors are advised to exercise caution when dealing in the securities of the Company.

DEFINITIONS

In this announcement, the following expressions have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires:

5 October 2017

As at the date of this announcement, the executive Directors are Mr. Oleg Deripaska, Mr. Vladislav Soloviev and Mr. Siegfried Wolf, the non-executive Directors are Mr. Maxim Sokov, Mr. Dmitry Afanasiev, Mr. Ivan Glasenberg, Mr. Maksim Goldman, Ms. Gulzhan Moldazhanova, Mr. Daniel Lesin Wolfe, Ms. Olga Mashkovskaya, Ms. Ekaterina Nikitina and Mr. Marco Musetti, and the independent non-executive Directors are Mr. Matthias Warnig (Chairman), Mr. Philip Lader, Dr. Elsie Leung Oi-sie, Mr. Mark Garber, Mr. Dmitry Vasiliev and Mr. Bernard Zonneveld.

All announcements and press releases published by the Company are available on its website under the links http://www.rusal.ru/en/investors/hkse/, http://rusal.ru/investors/info/moex/ and http://www.rusal.ru/en/press-center/press-releases.aspx, respectively.

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