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Filed by UBS Group AG and

UBS AG

Pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933

Subject Company: UBS AG

Registration Statement No. 333-199011

Talking Points on the share-for-share exchange

 

  UBS has already announced a series of measures in response to global Too Big To Fail requirements.

 

  In May, UBS announced that it intended to create a group holding company, UBS Group AG, through a share-for-share exchange offer. As announced at the end of September, UBS Group AG has launched the offer of one UBS Group AG share in exchange for one UBS AG share.

 

  Following completion of the exchange offer and the squeeze-out, UBS Group expects to propose a supplementary capital return of at least CHF 0.25 per share to shareholders of the new group holding company.

 

  The UBS Group AG shares will grant holders the same voting and economic rights as for UBS shares.

 

  Based on a preliminary count, a total of 86.55% of UBS shares have been validly tendered into UBS Group AG’s share-for-share exchange offer.

 

  We are very pleased with these preliminary results which demonstrate a strong endorsement and significant momentum.

 

  This result is even more positive considering that UBS has been required to restrict its share-for-share offer to institutional shareholders in a number of jurisdictions.

 

  UBS received slightly stronger support from its shareholders than other companies in similar transactions (e.g. Swiss Re received 86.3% tendered shares in its Initial Acceptance Period).

 

  We have decided to reduce the minimum acceptance condition from 90% to 66.67% and in accordance with applicable requirements to extend the initial acceptance period of the share-for-share exchange offer to 20 November 2014.

 

  With its new legal structure, UBS intends to substantially improve the resolvability of the group in response to regulatory requirements affecting the entire industry.

 

  The changes to our legal structure will not affect our strategy, the way we run our business and how we serve our clients.

 

  As previously announced, UBS also intends to establish a banking subsidiary in Switzerland in mid-2015. The scope of this future subsidiary’s business will include the Retail & Corporate business division and the Swiss-booked business of our Wealth Management business division.

 

  In the UK, in May 2014 UBS Limited implemented a modified business operating model under which UBS Limited bears and retains a larger proportion of the risk and reward in its business activities.

 

  In the US, UBS will comply with new rules for foreign banks under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that will require an intermediate holding company to own all of its operations other than US branches of UBS AG by 1 July 2016. As a result, UBS will designate an intermediate holding company to hold all US subsidiaries of UBS.