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Regulatory Announcement

Company SQS Software Quality Systems AG  
TIDM SQS
Headline Conversion of Securities
Released    18:28 20-Feb-08
Number 4364O

RNS Number:4364O
SQS Software Quality Systems AG
20 February 2008

SQS Software Quality Systems AG
20 February 2008

SQS Software Quality Systems AG ("SQS" or the 'Company')

Conversion of Securities


Software Quality Systems AG, the global leader in independent software testing and quality management services, today announces that Gresham Computing plc ("Gresham") is exercising its conversion rights over its convertible bonds into SQS Ordinary Shares.

The Company's admission document and the annual report for the year ended 31 December 2006 detail Gresham's holding of 52,800 convertible bonds with a nominal value of €1 each. These convertible bonds date back to the first UK acquisition SQS made in 2001.

Gresham informed the Company on the 21 December 2007 of its intention to exercise its conversion rights at the issue price of £1.90 per share (the issue price at the IPO in 2005 agreed with Gresham before the IPO). Consideration of €140,047 has been paid to the Company for the conversion of the bonds into 52,800 Ordinary Shares. These shares will be eligible for dividends with effect from 1 January 2008.

Application will be made for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM.

Following admission of the issue, SQS will have 21,599,109 Ordinary Shares in issue.

For further information please contact:

  SQS Software Quality Systems AG www.sqs.de or www.sqs-uk.com
  Rudolf van Megen, CEO
Rene Gawron, CFO
+49 (22 03) 91 54 0
     
  Altium  
  Nick Tulloch
Penny Ladkin
+44 (0) 20 7484 4040
     
  College Hill Associates Ltd  
  Sara Musgrave
Ben Way
+44 (0) 20 7457 2020
     


20 February 2008

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