Marshall & Ilsley Corporation Announces Record Date and Meeting Date for Special Shareholder Meeting
September 20 2007 - 8:34AM
PR Newswire (US)
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Marshall & Ilsley
Corporation (NYSE:MI) (M&I) announced today that a special
meeting of its shareholders will be held at 10:00 a.m. (CDT) on
October 25 at its Milwaukee headquarters, 770 North Water Street.
The purpose of the special meeting is to consider and vote upon a
proposal to approve the previously announced transaction whereby
M&I would split Marshall & Ilsley Corporation and Metavante
Corporation into independent public companies. Holders of record of
M&I common stock as of September 19, 2007, the record date for
the special meeting, are entitled to notice of and to vote at the
special meeting. M&I received a favorable private letter ruling
from the Internal Revenue Service concerning the transaction on
September 12, 2007. In addition, the applicable Hart-Scott-Rodino
waiting period expired on July 24, 2007. Assuming the satisfaction
of all remaining closing conditions, M&I expects to complete
the transaction in the fourth quarter of 2007. The Marshall &
Ilsley Corporation Board of Directors has unanimously recommended
that shareholders vote to approve the transaction. Marshall &
Ilsley Corporation (NYSE:MI) is a diversified financial services
corporation headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., with $58.3 billion in
assets. Founded in 1847, M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank is the
largest Wisconsin-based bank, with 192 offices throughout the
state. In addition, M&I has 49 locations throughout Arizona; 30
offices along Florida's west coast and in central Florida; 16
offices in Kansas City and nearby communities; 22 offices in
metropolitan Minneapolis/St. Paul, and one in Duluth, Minn.; three
offices in Tulsa, Okla.; and one office in Las Vegas, Nev.
M&I's Southwest Bank subsidiary has 17 offices in the greater
St. Louis area. Metavante Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary,
provides a full array of technology products and services for the
financial services industry. On April 3, 2007, Marshall &
Ilsley Corporation announced its plans to split Metavante
Corporation and Marshall & Ilsley Corporation into independent
publicly traded companies. M&I also provides trust and
investment management, equipment leasing, mortgage banking,
asset-based lending, financial planning, investments, and insurance
services from offices throughout the country and on the Internet
(http://www.mibank.com/ or http://www.micorp.com/). M&I's
customer-based approach, internal growth, and strategic
acquisitions have made M&I a nationally recognized leader in
the financial services industry. In connection with the proposed
transaction, Metavante Holding Company has filed a registration
statement on Form S-4 (Registration No. 333-143143) with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which was declared
effective on September 14, 2007. The registration statement
contains a definitive proxy statement/prospectus-information
statement, which will be mailed to stockholders of M&I on or
about September 24, 2007. Investors are urged to carefully read the
definitive proxy statement/prospectus-information statement and any
other relevant documents filed with the SEC because they contain
important information. Investors will be able to get the definitive
proxy statement/prospectus-information statement and all relevant
documents filed by M&I, Metavante Holding Company or New
M&I Corporation with the SEC free of charge at the SEC's
website http://www.sec.gov/ or from M&I Shareholder Relations
at 770 North Water Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202, (414)
765-7700. The directors, executive officers and other members of
management and employees of M&I may be deemed to be
participants in the solicitation of proxies from its shareholders
in favor of the transactions. Information concerning persons who
may be considered participants in the solicitation of M&I's
shareholders under the rules of the SEC is set forth in public
filings filed by M&I with the SEC and are set forth in the
definitive proxy statement/prospectus-information statement.
Information concerning M&I's participants in the solicitation
is contained in M&I's proxy statement on Schedule 14A, filed
with the SEC on December 13, 2005, on March 13, 2007 and in the
definitive proxy statement/prospectus-information statement when it
becomes available. DATASOURCE: Marshall & Ilsley Corporation
CONTACT: Randall J. Erickson of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation,
+1-414-765-7809 Web site: http://www.mibank.com/
http://www.micorp.com/
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