Filer:
Ultrapar
Participações S.A.
Issuer:
Ultrapar
Participações S.A.
Subject
of the
offer: Refinaria de Petróleo Ipiranga S.A.,
Distribuidora
de
Produtos de Petróleo Ipiranga S.A. and
Companhia
Brasileira
de Petróleo Ipiranga
Commission
File
Number: 333-146406
December
20,
2007
To
Comissão
de Valores
Mobiliários – CVM
Bolsa
de Valores de
São Paulo – BOVESPA
Subject:
Share exchange of the preferred and
common shares of
Refinaria de Petróleo
Ipiranga S.A., Distribuidora de Produtos
de Petróleo
Ipiranga S.A. and Companhia
Brasileira de Petróleo Ipiranga – Extraordinary General
Meeting Held on
December 18, 2007.
Request
for clarification from
BOVESPA.
Dear
Sirs,
In
response to the request from BOVESPA
(São Paulo Stock Exchange), we hereby provide the following
clarifications:
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1)
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The
final date
for the exercising of the appraisal right will be January 21,
2008.
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2)
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Shareholders
in this company dissenting from the decision made at the general
shareholders meeting who wish to exercise their appraisal right should
contact the company’s shareholders’ department, on (55-11)
3177-7014.
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3)
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As
set out in
item 9.1 of the Material Notice published on November 12, 2007, payment
for the reimbursement of the shares will be carried out until January
24,
2008, unless there is a general shareholders meeting called by the
management to ratify or reconsider the share exchange transaction,
under
the terms of Paragraph 3 of Article 137 of Brazilian Corporate
Law.
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Best
regards,
André
Covre
Chief
Financial and Investor Relations
Officer
ULTRAPAR
PARTICIPAÇÕES
S.A.
This
document
relates to a proposed transaction involving Ultrapar Participações S.A.
(“Ultrapar”), Refinaria de Petróleo Ipiranga S.A. (“RPI”), Distribuidora de
Produtos de Petróleo Ipiranga S.A. (“DPPI”) and Companhia Brasileira de Petróleo
Ipiranga (“CBPI” and together with RPI and DPPI, the “Target Companies”). In
connection with the proposed transaction, Ultrapar has filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) a registration statement on Form F-4 (File no.
333-146406) (the “Registration Statement”) to register Ultrapar preferred shares
to be issued in the proposed transaction and that includes a prospectus of
Ultrapar. Ultrapar has also filed, and intends to continue to file, additional
relevant materials with the SEC. The Registration Statement and the related
prospectus contain important information about Ultrapar, the Target Companies,
the proposed transaction and related matters. Investors will be able
to obtain copies of the offering document and other documents from the SEC's
Public Reference Room at 100 F Street N.E., Washington D.C., 20549. Please
call
the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the Public Reference
Room.
The documents may also be obtained from the website maintained by the SEC
at
http://www.sec.gov, which contains reports and other information regarding
registrants that file electronically with the SEC. Ultrapar has also filed
certain documents with the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários, the Brazilian
securities commission, which are available on the CVM’s website at
http://www.cvm.gov.br. In addition, documents (including any exhibits) filed
with the SEC or CVM by Ultrapar will be available free of charge from the
Investor Relations office of Ultrapar Participações S.A., located at Avenida
Brigadeiro Luis Antonio, 1343, 9º Andar São Paulo, SP, Brazil 01317-910, tel:
011-55-11-3177-6695. SHAREHOLDERS OF THE TARGET COMPANIES ARE URGED TO READ
THE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC,
INCLUDING THE PROSPECTUS, BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT
THE
PROPOSED TRANSACTION.