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Facebook

* Nature of the company

Facebook’s mission is to make the world more open and connected. Its principal executive offices are located at 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, and our telephone number is (650) 308-7300. The website address is www.facebook.com.

People use Facebook to stay connected with their friends and family, to discover what is going on in the world around them, and to share and express what matters to them to the people they care about.

* Size of the share issue

Facebook, Inc. is offering 180,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock and the selling stockholders are offering 157,415,352 shares of Class A common stock, so it is a total of 337,415,352 shares of Class A common stock are issuing. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders. This is our initial public offering and no public market currently exists for our shares of Class A common stock. We anticipate that the initial public offering price will be between $ 28.00 and $ 35.00 per share.

* Purpose of the share issue

The principal purposes of Facebook’s initial public offering are to create a public market for its Class A common stock and thereby enable future access to the public equity markets by it and its employees, obtain additional capital, and facilitate an orderly distribution of shares for the selling stockholders. The company intends to use the net proceeds from initial public offering for working capital and other general corporate purposes; however it does not have any specific uses of the net proceeds planned.

* Whether the company already has securities listed on the ASX

Facebook has applied to list its Class A common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “FB.”

Facebook is a “controlled company” under the corporate governance rules for NASDAQ-listed companies, and our board of directors has determined not to have an independent nominating function and instead to...