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Banco Bradesco S.A.
Corporate
Taxpayer’s ID (CNPJ) 60.746.948/0001-12
Companies
Registrar Number (NIRE) 35.300.027.795
Publicly-Held
Company
Special
Stockholders’ Meeting
Call
for Meeting
We invite the stockholders of this Company to convene in a Special Stockholders’ Meeting, to be held on December 9, 2004, at 4:00 p.m., at the Company’s head office, Cidade de Deus, in the “Salão Nobre”, on the 5th floor of Prédio Novo, Vila Yara, Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil, in order to examine the Board of Directors’ proposals to:
1. cancel 443,566 book-entry registered stocks, with no par value, of which 443,562 are common stocks and 4 are preferred stocks held in treasury, representing its own Capital Stock, without reduction thereof;
2. split the shares representing the Capital Stock, without altering the amount thereof, already taking into account the cancellation proposed in item one (1) above, in such manner that the stockholders shall have their stock positions accrued by 200%, receiving, on a free basis 2 (two) new stocks for each stock of the same type held on the date of Meeting, in accordance with Article 12 of Law 6,404/76. Simultaneously to the Brazilian Market operation, and in the same proportion, the splitting of DRs - Depositary Receipts shall occur in the U.S. (NYSE) and European (Latibex) Markets, where investors shall receive two (2) DRs, on a free basis, for each DR held on the date of Meeting;
3. amend the “caput” of Article 6 of the Company’s By-Laws, as a result of the previous items;
4. increase the Capital Stock, in the amount of R$700,000,000.00, from R$7,000,000,000.00 to R$7,700,000,000.00, through the issuance of 17,500,000 new book-entry registered stocks, with no par value, of which 8,791,857 are common stocks and 8,708,143 are preferred stocks, at the price of R$40.00 per stock, by means of a private subscription by stockholders during the period between 12.27.2004 and 1.27.2005, in the proportion of 3.688612594% over the stockholding position held by each one on the date of the Meeting, following the stock splitting proposed in item 2 (two) above, with payment at sight.
Documents Available to the Public: the proposals of the Board of Directors are available to interested parties at Banco Bradesco S.A’s Stocks and Custody Department, at Cidade de Deus, Prédio Amarelo, Vila Yara, Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil; and at the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) at Rua XV de Novembro, 275, Centro, São Paulo, Brazil. They can also be viewed on Bradesco’s website - www.bradesco.com.br – Investor Relations section.
| Cidade de Deus, Osasco, State of São Paulo, November 22, 2004 |
| Board of Directors | ||
| Lázaro de Mello Brandão | - Chairman | |
| Mário da Silveira Teixeira Júnior | ||
| Márcio Artur Laurelli Cypriano | ||
| João Aguiar Alvarez | ||
| Denise Aguiar Alvarez Valente |
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BANCO BRADESCO S.A.
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| By: |
/S/
José Luiz Acar Pedro
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José Luiz Acar Pedro
Executive Vice President and Investor Relations Director
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