Velti Receives Court Approval of Sale of Mobile Marketing Business to GSO

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20, 2013

The transaction includes the sale of business lines operated by Velti Inc. and Air2Web Inc. in the U.S., Air2Web India, Velti DR Limited and Mobile Interactive Group, Ltd. in the U.K., and Velti Netherlands B.V. in the Netherlands.  All operations included in the sale agreement are continuing as normal throughout the sale process and customers of the acquired businesses can expect to receive best-in-class service and support through the closing and beyond.

As previously announced, the Company is operating its U.S. operations as debtors-in-possession under the protection of the U.S. bankruptcy laws, while the  Company's operations in the U.K., Greece, China, Brazil, India, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and other jurisdictions outside the U.S. are continuing normal business operations. 

Upon closing of the transaction, the mobile marketing businesses sold to GSO will no longer be operating under U.S. bankruptcy protection.

For more information about this announcement, please visit www.velti.com. Additionally, the Company has set up a special information hotline at 866-618-4602.

Forward-Looking Statements

"Safe harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This press release contains forward-looking statements about voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code filed by various of the company's subsidiaries in the United States, as well as concerning the proposed sale of assets owned or used in the company's mobile marketing business unit.  The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions, and if any such risks or uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions prove incorrect, the Company's results could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include - but are not limited to - our ability to consummate the sale of assets to GSO Capital Partners; our ability to continue operations during the pendency of the bankruptcy cases and the effect of actions of the Court on the Company's assets and operations; the adverse impact of the bankruptcy cases on the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations, including its ability to maintain contracts and other customer and supplier relationships critical to its business and the actions of the Company's creditors and other third parties with interests in the bankruptcy cases; the Company's ability to maintain adequate liquidity to fund operations during the bankruptcy cases; the Company's ability to obtain court approval with respect to motions in the bankruptcy cases prosecuted from time to time; the Company's ability to develop, prosecute, confirm and consummate a plan of reorganization with respect to the bankruptcy cases; and other risk factors contained in the Company's SEC filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F and our current reports on Form 6-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in other filings we may make with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Velti assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law.