Standard & Poor's Maalot Maintains Credit Rating for Company's Notes and Potential Exchange of Outstanding Notes, With Revised Outlook

TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elbit Imaging Ltd. ("EI") (Nasdaq: EMITF) announced today that Standard & Poor's Maalot has maintained the "ilA" credit rating of the Company's outstanding notes, with a revised outlook from "Stable" to "Negative". This credit rating would also apply to additional notes in an aggregate principal amount of up to NIS 400 million that the Company may issue in exchange for its outstanding notes, subject to certain conditions.  

The Company has made no decision with respect to any future debt exchange, and there is no certainty that any such debt exchange will be executed.

Any future debt offering, if made, will be made in Israel to residents of Israel only, and any debt instruments that may be offered will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from U.S. registration requirements.

About Elbit Imaging Ltd.

Elbit Imaging Ltd. operates in the following principal fields of business: (i) Commercial and Entertainment Centers - Initiation, construction, and sale of commercial and entertainment centers and other mixed-use real property projects, predominantly in the retail sector, located in Central and Eastern Europe and in India. In certain circumstances and depending on market conditions, Elbit may operate and manage a commercial and entertainment center prior to its sale; (ii) Hotels - Hotels operation and management, primarily in major European cities; (iii) Image Guided Treatment - Investments in the research and development, production and marketing of magnetic resonance imaging guided focused ultrasound treatment equipment; (iv) Residential Projects - Initiation, construction and sale of residential projects and other mixed-use real property projects, predominately residential, located primarily in India and in Eastern Europe; (v) Fashion Apparel - distribution and marketing of fashion apparel and accessories in Israel; and (vi) Other Activities - (a) venture capital investments; (b) investments in hospitals and farm and dairy plants in India, which are in preliminary stages; and (c) wholesale trade of home applications in India.

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