Edenor Announces the Exchange Offer Early Participation Deadline Results of Its Offer to Exchange Any and All of Its Outstanding 10.5% Senior Notes Due 2017 for Its 9.75% Senior Notes Due 2022 Plus Cash and the Status of its Offer to Purchase Any and All of Its Outstanding 10.5% Senior Notes Due 2017 for Cash

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Oct 20, 2010, 09:25 ET

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Edenor S.A. (Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte S.A.) (the "Company") announces the Exchange Offer Early Participation Deadline results of its offer to exchange any and all of its outstanding 10.5% Senior Notes due 2017 (the "Existing Notes") for its 9.75% Senior Notes due 2022 (the "New Notes") plus cash (the "Exchange Offer") and the status of its offer to purchase any and all of its outstanding 10.5% Senior Notes due 2017 (the "Existing Notes") for cash (the "Offer to Purchase" and together with the Exchange Offer, the "Offers").

Exchange Offer Early Participation Deadline results of the Exchange Offer and the Status of the Offer to Purchase

As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on October 20, 2010 (the "Exchange Offer Early Participation Deadline"), U.S. $90,251,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Existing Notes, representing approximately 60.7% of the outstanding Existing Notes, excluding the U.S. $65.3 million of Existing Notes that the Company held as of the launch of the Offers and cancelled on October 18, 2010, had been validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) in the Exchange Offer and U.S. $32,393,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Existing Notes, representing approximately 21.8% of the outstanding Existing Notes, excluding the U.S. $65.3 million of Existing Notes that the Company held as of the launch of the Offers and cancelled on October 18, 2010, had been validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) in the Offer to Purchase. The total aggregate principal amount of the Existing Notes tendered (and not validly withdrawn) in the Offers as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on October 20, 2010, is U.S. $122,644,000, representing approximately 82.5% of the outstanding Existing Notes, excluding the U.S. $65.3 million of Existing Notes that the Company held as of the launch of the Offers and cancelled on October 18, 2010.

The Offers are being made only to holders who have properly completed, executed and delivered to the information agent an eligibility letter, whereby such holder has represented to the Company that it is, or in the event that it is acting on behalf of a beneficial owner of Existing Notes, it has received a written certification from such beneficial owner to the effect that such beneficial owner is (i) a "qualified institutional buyer," or "QIB," as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or (ii) a "non-U.S. Person" (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act).

the NEW notes have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements.

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