ShangPharma Announces Completion of Merger

ShangPharma Corporation

today announced the completion of the merger contemplated by the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger dated December 21, 2012 (the "Merger Agreement"), by and among the Company, ShangPharma Holdings Limited ("Holdings"), ShangPharma Parent Limited ("Parent") and ShangPharma Merger Sub Limited ("Merger Sub").  As a result of the merger, the Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, which was approved by the Company's shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting held on March 20, 2013, all of the Company's ordinary shares (including ordinary shares represented by American depositary shares, each representing eighteen ordinary shares ("ADS")) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the merger have been cancelled and converted into and exchanged for the right to receive US$0.50 per ordinary share or US$9.00 per ADS, in each case, in cash, without interest and net of any applicable withholding taxes, except for (i) the ordinary shares (including ordinary shares represented by ADSs) owned by Holdings, Parent, Merger Sub, Mr. Michael Xin Hui, the chairman of