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Yes _______ No ___X____B r a d e s c o
Publicly-held Company
Corporate Taxpayer’s ID (CNPJ) 60.746.948/0001-12
Notice to Shareholders
Banco Bradesco S.A. informs the market and its shareholders that, referring to the fractions of shares from the reverse split operation approved at the Special Shareholders’ Meeting held on March 10th, 2009, sold at an Auction held at BM&FBOVESPA S.A. - Bolsa de Valores, Mercadorias e Futuros (Securities, Commodities and Future Exchanges), on June 24th, 2009, that:
1. it shall pay, on July 20th, 2009, the amounts of:
1.1 R$22.499992165 per common share and R$27.499999709 per preferred share, referring to the sale of 3,730,979 common shares and 25,294,621 preferred shares; and
1.2 R$0.117688909 per common share and R$0.143842048 per preferred share, regarding the monetary restatement by the SELIC rate since June 29th, 2009, date of the Auction’s financial settlement. These amounts are susceptible to the Withholding Income Tax, according to the current legislation, except to those shareholders who are legally exempted from such taxation;
2. the aforementioned amounts shall be made available to shareholders that are entitled to them, by means of:
a) credit to the shareholders registered in its records as holders of checking account in a Financial Institution; and
b) credit to BM&FBOVESPA, which shall transfer the amounts to those shareholders registered in its records, through its Custodian Agents;
3. the shareholders who do not hold a checking account in a Financial Institution, but whose data is updated at Bradesco’s records, shall be notified and should go to a Bradesco Branch of their choice, with their ID cards, to receive the amounts they are entitled to;
4. for those not identified or not located, the amounts shall be available at the Company and paid upon request; and
5. to the shareholders mentioned in items 3 and 4 above, the amounts to be paid pointed out in item 1.1 shall also be restated by the SELIC rate or another index that might replace it, since June 29th, 2009 until the date of the payment.
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BANCO BRADESCO S.A. |
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/S/ Domingos Figueiredo de Abreu
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| Domingos Figueiredo de Abreu
Executive Vice President and Investor Relations Officer
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