CETIP SA : Notice - Decrease of Shareholder Participation (João Carlos Ribeiro)

CETIP S.A. - MERCADOS ORGANIZADOS

CNPJ nº 09.358.105/0001-91

NIRE 33.300.285.601

NOTICE TO THE MARKET DECREASE OF SHAREHOLDER PARTICIPATION

Rio de Janeiro, January 18, 2012.

Cetip S.A. - Mercados Organizados ("Cetip") (BM&FBOVESPA: CTIP3), Latin America's largest depositary of private fixed income securities and Brazil's largest private asset clearinghouse hereby informs that, in accordance with article 12 of CVM instruction

358 of 2002, received correspondence from João Carlos Ribeiro dated January 17, 2012, the content of which is included below: (free translation of the original notice).
"Dear Sr.,
In accordance with the provisions of Circular Letter CVM/SEP nº 004/2011, I hereby inform that, as a shareholder of CETIP with participation equivalent to 6.17% (six point seventeen percent) of its share capital, I transferred 3,288,578 (three million two hundred and eighty-eight thousand, five hundred and seventy-eight) shares of my ownership to a Brazilian company denominated PONTOON INVESTIMENTOS S.A., headquarted at Rua Fernandes de Barros, Curitiba, Paraná, nº. 514, Alto da XV, CEP 80045-390, enrolled in the Corporate Taxpayer's Registry (CNPJ/MF) under no. 08.579.238/ 0001-25. With this transfer, my participation in CETIP's share capital fell to 4.79% (four point seventy-nine per cent), which made this notice required.
No further for the moment, I place myself at your disposal for any clarification that may be needed."
The original notice is attached.

Francisco Carlos Gomes

Investor Relations Officer