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CPFL ENERGIA S.A.
Publicly held corporation
CNPJ 02.429.144/0001-93 - NIRE 353.001.861-33
ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE MARKET
CPFL Energia S.A. (“CPFL Energia”), in compliance with the provisions of article 157, paragraph 4 of Law No. 6,404/76 (“Corporation Law”), and Brazilian Securities Commission (“CVM”) Instruction No. 358/2002, informs to its shareholders and to the market in general that received today from its controlling shareholders Bonaire Participações S.A. (“Bonaire”) and Energia São Paulo Fundo de Investimento em Ações (“Energia SP FIA”), the information of the completion, on September 19, 2016, of the transfer of ten thousand (10,000) common shares issued by CPFL Energia, owned by Bonaire, bound to the Shareholders Agreement of the Company, to Energia SP FIA.
Energia SP FIA is the controlling shareholder of Bonaire and is also a shareholder of CPFL Energia, owning, before the abovementioned transfer, 150,136,050 common shares of the Company, of which 112,186,990 shares bound to the Shareholders Agreement. With the completion of the transfer of the abovementioned common shares of CPFL Energia, owned by Bonaire, to Energia SP FIA, it now holds 150,146,050 common shares of the Company, of which 112,196,990 shares bound to the Shareholders Agreement. Bonaire, in turn, is no longer a party to the Company's Controlling Block.
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We reproduce below the Announcement to the Market issued today by Bonaire:
“BONAIRE PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A. ("Company" and/or "Bonaire"), hereby informs and clarifies that, on September 19, 2016, the purchase and sale of ten thousand (10,000) shares, bound to the Shareholders Agreement of CPFL Energia S.A., held by the Company, was made, to Energia São Paulo Fundo de Investimento em Ações, company taxpayer ID (CNPJ/MF) no. 02.178.371/0001-93, with address at Avenida Juscelino Kubitschek, nº 510, 1º andar, sala Belfort, in the city and state of São Paulo, at the price of twenty-three reais and eighty-one centavos (R$ 23.81) per each share, totaling the amount of two hundred thirty-eight thousand, one hundred reais (R$ 238,100.00).”
São Paulo, September 23, 2016.
Andre Dorf
Chief Executive Officer
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/S/ GUSTAVO ESTRELLA
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Gustavo Estrella Chief Financial Officer and Head of Investor Relations |
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