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registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b):
MATERIAL FACT
TAM S.A. (the “Company”) and LAN Airlines S.A. (“LAN”, and, together with the Company, the “Companies”), pursuant to the provisions of article 157 of Law no. 6.404 of December 15, 1976, as amended, and of the Instruction of the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (“CVM”) no. 358/02, of January 3, 2002, as amended, hereby inform their shareholders and the market in general that the Public Exchange Offer of Shares for Delisting and Resulting Exit from Corporate Governance Level 2 at BM&FBovespa was successfully completed on this date. The Companies further inform that the shareholders agreement entered into on January 25, 2012, among LAN, TEP Chile S.A., Holdco I S.A. and the Company, regulating the exercise of the voting rights inherent to the shares of issuance of the Company owned by the parties, as well as matters related to the governance, management and operation of the Company, also became effective on this date. The agreement was filed in the Company’s headquarters and in CVM’s IPE system.
São Paulo, June 22, 2012.
Líbano Miranda Barroso
Chief Investor Relations Officer
TAM S.A.
TAM S.A. | |
By: | /S/ Libano Miranda Barroso |
Name: Libano Miranda Barroso Title: Chief Financial Officer |
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