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GAFISA S.A.
Corporate Taxpayers’ ID (CNPJ) 01.545.826/0001-07
Corporate Registry ID (NIRE) 35.300.147.952
Publicly-held Company
MATERIAL FACT
Gafisa S.A. (BOVESPA: GFSA3; NYSE: GFA), publicly-held company with its head offices located in the City of São Paulo, State of São Paulo, at Avenida das Nações Unidas, 8,501, 19° andar, CEP 05425-070, registered with the Corporate Taxpayers ID under No. 01,545,826/0001-07 (the “Company”) pursuant to Instruction No. 358 dated January 3, 2002, as amended, and Article 7, Section 1, of Instruction No. 471 dated August 8, 2008 (the “Instruction 471”), both from the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (the Brazilian Securities Commission, the “CVM”), hereby announces, the filing, on September 20, 2010, with the Associação Brasileira de Entidades dos Mercados Financeiro e de Capitais (the National Association of Financial and Capital Markets Institutions, the “ANBIMA”), of the request for preliminary analysis of the application for registration concerning the 8th public offering of common debentures, unsecured, non-convertible into shares, in no more than two (2) series, of the Company (“Debentures” and “Offering”). The Debentures shall be distributed under an underwriting guarantee by Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A. (“Lead Manager”) and Banco Bradesco BBI S.A. (“Bradesco BBI” and, jointly with the Lead Manager, the “Underwriters”), and the total amount of the Offering will be up to R$300,000,000.00 (three hundred million reais), pursuant to the Instruction No. 400 dated December 29, 2003, as amended (“Instruction 400”) from CVM. The number of series, the amount of Debentures to be distributed under the series and also the final interest rate of the Debentures, will be defined through a bookbuilding process to be conducted by the Underwriters in accordance with Articles 23, Sections 1 and 2, and 44 of Instruction 400. The Offering will begin after the (i) registration with CVM, (ii) publication of the notice of commencement of the Offering, and (iii) publication of the final prospectus and filing with CVM, pursuant to Article 6-B of Instruction 400.
Additional information on the Offering is available at the websites of the Company (http://www.gafisa.com.br/ri/) and the Underwriters (www.santander.com.br/prospectos e www.bradescobbi.com.br/ofertaspublicas).
São Paulo, September 17, 2010
GAFISA S.A.
Alceu Duilio Calciolari
Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer
This release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the Debentures. A registration statement relating to the Debentures has not been and will not be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States. These Debentures may not be sold nor offered for sale or purchase prior to their registration with the CVM.
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Gafisa S.A. | |
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/s/ Alceu Duílio Calciolari |
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Name: Alceu Duílio Calciolari
Title: Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer | |