Deutsche Bank Appointed as Successor Depositary Bank for the Sponsored Level I American Depositary Receipt Program of Veolia Environnement S.A.

NEW YORK & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Deutsche Bank today announced its appointment as successor depositary bank for the non-capital raising sponsored Level I American Depositary Receipt program of Veolia Environnement S.A. (Veolia).

Veolia VEOEY is the global leader in optimized resource management. With over 179,000 employees worldwide, it designs and provides water, waste and energy management solutions that contribute to the sustainable development of communities and industries. Through Veolia's three complementary business activities, it helps to develop access to resources, preserve available resources, and to replenish them.

In 2014, the group Veolia supplied 96 million people with drinking water and 60 million people with wastewater service, produced 52 million megawatt hours of energy and converted 31 million metric tons of waste into new materials and energy. Veolia Environnement (listed on Paris Euronext: VIE) recorded consolidated revenue of EUR 24.4 billion in 2014. *

Jose Sicilia, Head of Depositary Receipts, Institutional Cash & Securities Services said: "We are pleased to have been appointed successor depositary bank by Veolia. Our broad range of customized services will be used to assist Veolia to optimize the visibility of its ADR program with the investor community."

Deutsche Bank's Depositary Receipts team is part of the Issuer Services business within the Bank's Institutional Cash & Securities Services unit.

In addition to specializing in administering cross-border equity structures such as American and global depositary receipts and global registered shares, Issuer Services provides corporates, financial institutions, hedge funds and supranational agencies around the world with trustee, agency, escrow and related services. The Bank offers a very broad range of services for diverse products, from complex securitizations and project finance to syndicated loans, debt exchanges and restructurings.

*Source: Veolia Environnement S.A (March 2015)

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