Result of Tender Offer

RNS Number:5264Z
Investor AB
08 March 2006


RNS Number:                                                   Date: 8 March 2006



 NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ANY U.S. PERSON OR ITALIAN PERSON OR TO ANY PERSON OR
             ADDRESS IN THE UNITED STATES OR THE REPUBLIC OF ITALY


                              Investor AB (publ)

     (incorporated as a limited liability company in the Kingdom of Sweden)
        Announcement of Results of  Offers to Sell for Cash (the "Offers")

    Any and all of its outstanding Euro300,000,000 5.25 per cent. Notes due 2008
         of which Euro288,000,000 remain outstanding (the "2008 Notes")

  A principal amount to be determined of its outstanding Euro600,000,000 4.75 per
                              cent. Notes due 2010
of which Euro555,000,000 remain outstanding (the "2010 Notes" and together with the
                            2008 Notes, the "Notes")



Investor AB (publ) (the 'Company') today announces the results of the Offers as
follows: holders of Euro 213,210,052.62 in aggregate principal amount of its 2008
Notes being 74.0% of the outstanding 2008 Notes; and  holders of Euro 348,454,000
in aggregate principal amount of its 2010 Notes being 62.8% of the outstanding
2010 Notes, offered to sell their Notes in the Offers.

The Company has elected to purchase in full the aggregate principal amount of
the 2008 Notes offered for sale and Euro 211,967,000 of the 2010 Notes offered for
sale.

Requests for information about the Offers to Sell for Cash should be directed
to:
Joint Dealer Managers:
Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch                      HSBC Bank plc
Liability Management Group
Tel:  +44 (0)20 7545 8011                            Tel:  +44 (0)20 7991 8888
Fax: +44 (0)11 3336 1474                             Fax: +44 (0)20 7992 4973
liability.management@db.com                          dominic.p.kerr@hsbcgroup.com



United States

The Invitations are not being made, directly or indirectly, in or into, or by
use of the mails, or by any means or instrumentality (including, without
limitation: facsimile transmission, telex, telephone, e-mail and other forms of
electronic transmission) of interstate or foreign commerce, or of any facility
of a national securities exchange of the United States, and Notes may not be
offered for sale by any such use, means, instrumentality or facility from or
within the United States. Accordingly, copies of this Invitation Memorandum and
any related documents are not being and must not be distributed, forwarded,
mailed, transmitted or sent into or from the United States (including without
limitation by any custodian, nominee, trustee or agent) and persons receiving
this Invitation Memorandum must not distribute, forward, mail, transmit or send
it or any related documents in, into or from the United States. Offers to sell
made by a resident of the United States, by any agent, fiduciary or other
intermediary acting on a non-discretionary basis for a principal giving
instructions from within the United States, or by any U.S. person, will not be
accepted.

Italy

The Invitations are not being made in the Republic of Italy. The Invitations and
the Invitation Memorandum have not been submitted to the clearance procedure of
the Commissione Nazionale per le Societa e la Borsa (CONSOB) pursuant to Italian
laws and regulations. Accordingly, the Invitations are not made or made
available to Noteholders who are Italian residents and/or persons located in the
Republic of Italy and they may not submit offers to sell Notes in respect of any
Invitation and, as such, any offers to sell received from or on behalf of such
Noteholders shall be ineffective and void. Neither this Invitation Memorandum
nor any other solicitation material relating to the Invitations or the Notes may
be distributed or made available in the Republic of Italy.

United Kingdom

The communication of the Invitation Memorandum is not being made, and the
Invitation Memorandum has not been approved, by an authorised person for the
purposes of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
Accordingly, the Invitation Memorandum is not being distributed to, and must not
be passed on to, the general public in the United Kingdom. Rather, the
communication of this Invitation Memorandum as a financial promotion is only
being made by the Company, or the Joint Dealer Managers to, and is directed only
at: (a) persons outside the United Kingdom; (b) those persons falling within the
definition of Investment Professionals (contained in Article 19(5) of the
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the "
Order")) or within Article 43 of the Order, or other persons to whom it may
lawfully be communicated in accordance with the Order; or (c) any person to whom
it may otherwise lawfully be made (such persons together being "relevant persons
").

Belgium

In Belgium, the Invitations are not being and will not be made, directly or
indirectly, to, or for the account of, any person other than to professional or
institutional investors referred to in article 3, 2degrees of the Belgian royal
decree of 7 July 1999 on the public character of financial operations (the "
Public Decree"), each acting on their own account. This Invitation Memorandum
has not been and will not be submitted to nor approved by the Belgian Banking,
Finance and Insurance Commission (Commission Bancaire, Financiere et des
Assurances/Commissie voor het Bank, Financie en assurantiewezen) and accordingly
may not be used in connection with any solicitation in Belgium except as may
otherwise be permitted by Belgian law.

France

This Invitation Memorandum has not been submitted and will not be submitted to
the clearance procedures of the Autorite des Marches Financiers in France. The
Invitations do not constitute a public tender offer for the purchase of Notes
nor a public offering of financial instruments in France. Only providers of
investment services relating to portfolio management for the account of third
parties and/or qualified investors ("investisseurs qualifies"), all as defined
in Articles L.411-1, L.411-2 and D.411-1 of the French Code Monetaire et
Financier, are eligible to offer to sell Notes.

Germany

Neither the Invitations nor the Invitation Memorandum constitute an offer of
securities or the solicitation of an offer of securities to the public in
Germany under the Securities Prospectus Act (Wertpapierprospektgesetz).
Accordingly the Invitation Memorandum has not been submitted for approval and
has not been approved by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority
(Bundesanstalt fur Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht - BaFin) or any other German
public authority.




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