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GAFISA S.A.
Corporate Taxpayers’ ID (CNPJ) 01.545.826/0001 -07
Corporate Registry ID (NIRE) 35.300.147.952
Publicly-Held Company
MATERIAL FACT
GAFISA S.A. (Bovespa, GFSA3; NYSE, GFA) (“Gafisa” or “Company”), pursuant to Instruction No. 358, dated January 3, 2002 from the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (the Brazilian securities commission, the “CVM”), in response to reports published in the newspaper Valor Econômico today, under the headline “Gafisa suspends transaction with shares and studies debentures”, informs its shareholders and the market in general that (i) as permitted by article 12, § 1 of Anbid (the National Association of Investment Banks) Code of Regulation and Best Practices for Agreement Related Activities, Gafisa has requested Anbid for an extension of term in relation to the public offering of shares of the Company which was object of the Material Fact published on June 3, 2009 (the “Offering”), such request was made after considering certain factors, among them the current market conditions, and (ii) Gafisa is currently in a quiet period, as set forth in article 48 of CVM Instruction No. 400/03, reason why it shall not specifically address the various allegations of the referred newspaper in relation to the Offering and the Company’s future plans.
Gafisa will continue to monitor the market and to take the measures necessary for the implementation of the Offering, always in accordance with the laws in force. The Offering will only be implemented in case market conditions deemed adequate by the Company are verified and once the requirements of the referred CVM Instruction No. 400/03 are duly fulfilled.
São Paulo, June 26, 2009
Gafisa S.A.
Alceu Duilio Calciolari
Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer
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