Share Ownership Evolution

Main Shareholders

Major changes in the ownership of the Company’s shares has been as follows:

• Schlumberger placed the shares it received as consideration for the sale of Sema Group to Atos Origin in February and April 2004.
• On December 10th, 2004, Philips sold half of its shareholding in Atos Origin to Deutsche Bank, who in turn sold those shares to a number of institutional investors. At December 31st, 2004 Philips still held 15.4% of the issued ordinary shares of the Company.
• The free-float of the company’s shares at June 30th, 2005 was 84.6%, with no shareholders other than Philips owning more than 5% of the issued share capital of the Company. There was no major change in share ownership during the first half of 2005.

• On 13 July 2005 Royal Philips Electronics sold its remaining 10.3 million shares in Atos Origin (15.4% of the common stock) to Citigroup in a block deal. Citigroup immediately sold those shares on to a wider range of institutional investors.

• The ownership of the Group’s shares by members of the Management and Supervisory Boards at 31 December 2005 is detailed under “Directors’ compensation and interests” in the Corporate Governance section of the 2005 Annual Report. The ownership of the Group’s shares by employees relates to ownership plans such as mutual funds and corporate savings plans.

• Former consulting partners of KPMG Consulting received 1,903,816 new ordinary shares on 16 August 2003 and must retain their securities for up to four years, with one-quarter of their shares being realisable each year, from 16 August 2002. At the end of December 2005, they held 482,782 shares (included in “Public” below).

• The free-float of the Group’s shares has risen from 85% at the beginning of 2005 to almost 100%  with no shareholders owning more than 5% of the issued share capital of the Company.

• The Group's actual free-float of shares increased from 39% to 100% between January 2004 and December 2007. 

Disclosure of interests

In 2007 the Company has been advised of share movements, by Centaurus Capital LP and Pardus Capital which held respectively 11.61% and 10.04% of the common stock at the date of the last disclosure (23 January 2008):

		Date of Statement	Shares	% interest	% voting rights
	Deutsche Bank (upwards) Deutsche Bank (downwards)    Pardus Capital (upwards) Morgan Stanley (upwards) Morgan Stanley (downwards) Centaurus Capital (upwards) Pardus Capital (upwards) Centaurus Capital (upwards) Pardus Capital (upwards) Centaurus Capital (upwards) Pardus Capital (upwards) Centaurus Capital (upwards)	05/07/2007 13/07/2007 08/08/2007 10/08/2007 13/08/2007 11/09/2007 05/10/2007 29/11/2007 29/11/2007 11/01/2008 11/01/2008 23/01/2008	5,179,132 508,911 5,050,000 3,589,181 2,397,530 6,910,506 6,500,000 7,110,506 6,700,000 7,410,506 7,000,000 7,738,942	7.51% 0.74% 7.32% 5.20% 3.48% 10.02% 9.42% 10.30% 9.71% 10.63% 10,04% 11.61%	7.51% 0.54% 7.32% 5.20% 3.48% 10.02% 9.42% 10.30% 9.71% 10.63% 10.04% 11.61%

Voting Rights

Voting rights are in the same proportion as shares held. No shares carry double voting rights.