Filer: Ultrapar Participações S.A.
Issuer: Ultrapar Participações S.A.
Subject of the offer: Refinaria de Petróleo Ipiranga S.A.,
Distribuidora de Produtos de Petróleo Ipiranga S.A. and
Companhia Brasileira de Petróleo Ipiranga
Commission File Number: 333-146406


DISTRIBUIDORA DE PRODUTOS DE PETRÓLEO IPIRANGA S.A.
NIRE 43.3.00004821 - CNPJ/MF 92.689.256/0001-76
Publicly Traded Company


Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting
Held on December 18, 2007


1.           Date, time and Location. Held, after the first convening, on December 18, 2007 at 9 a.m. at the company headquarters of Distribuidora de Produtos de Petróleo Ipiranga S.A. (“DPPI”), located at Avenida Dolores Alcaraz Caldas, 90, in the city of Porto Alegre, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

2.           Convening. Convening notices were published in the newspapers: “Jornal do Comércio do Rio Grande do Sul” in the editions of November 14, 19 and 20, 2007;  “O Estado de São Paulo” in the editions of November 14, 15 and 16, 2007; “Valor Econômico” in the editions of November 14, 16 and 19, 2007; “Jornal Zero Hora” in the editions of November 14, 15 and 16, 2007, and the “Diário Oficial do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul” in the editions of November 14, 16 and 19, 2007.

3.           Presence. Shareholders representing more than 2/3 of the common shares of DPPI, in accordance with the signatures appearing in the Register of Shareholders Present, thus constituting a legal quorum for the approval of the matters cited as the order of the day. Present were also the directors of DPPI, Mr. Leocádio de Almeida Antunes Filho , and representatives of KPMG Independent Auditors (“KPMG”), Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (“Deutsche Bank”), the Banco de Investimentos Credit Suisse (Brasil) S.A. (“Credit Suisse”) and Apsis Consultoria Empresarial S/C Ltda. (“Apsis”), Mrs. Vinicius Babot and Evandro Sander Pinto, José Securato, Cláudio Sassaki and Ana Cristina França de Souza , respectively. Present also were fiscal council member Sr. Roberto Kutschat Neto and fiscal council member Sr. Ricardo Magalhães.

4.           Presiding. Mauro Teixeira Sampaio - Chairman; Pedro Costa -Secretary.

5.           Matters discussed and deliberated. The Chairman announced that the objective of the Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting was to deliberate on the proposal to exchange the shares issued byDPPI by Ultrapar Participações S.A. (“ULTRAPAR”), a publicly traded company, whose bylaws are duly filed with the commercial registry of the state of São Paulo - JUCESP under NIRE 35.300.109.724, inscribed under CNPJ/MF Nº 33.256.439/0001-39, whose headquarters are located at Avenida Brigadeiro Luiz Antonio, 1343, 9th floor, in the city of São Paulo, in the state of São Paulo, to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of ULTRAPAR. The holders of ordinary shares, observing the abstentions cited below, decided as follows:
 

 
5.1.         To draw up the minutes of this meeting in the form of a summary of the deliberations, publishing with the omission of the shareholders present, in accordance with Article 130 and its paragraphs, of Law 6.404/76, by which the declarations of vote, protest or dissent will be counted, received and authenticated by the chairman of the meeting, and filed at company headquarters.

5.2.         To approve the terms and conditions of the “Protocol and justification for the exchange of the shares issued by Distribuidora de Produtos de Petróleo Ipiranga S.A. by Ultrapar Participações S.A.” signed by the management of DPPI and ULTRAPAR on November 9, 2007, which envisages the replacement of 1 (one) ordinary or preferred share issued by DPPI for 0.64048 preferred share issued by ULTRAPAR, (Document 1) (“Protocol and Justification ”) and all its annexes, with ratification and approval of the hiring of the various valuation companies responsible for the drawing up of the valuation reports annexed to the Protocol and Justification document, with the consequent approval of the exchange of the shares for ULTRAPAR shares, under the terms of the Protocol and Justification document.

5.3.           To approve the proposal to alter Article 1 of DPPI's bylaws, the following sentence be written into the bylaws: “Article 1, The Company, called DISTRIBUIDORA DE PRODUTOS DE PETRÓLEO IPIRANGA S.A., is a limited company, being a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ultrapar Participações S.A., and governed by the legislation governing limited companies, the applicable legislation and by these bylaws.”

5.4.           To authorise the directors of DPPI to carry out all the acts necessary to formalise the exchange of the company's shares with the relevant public bodies and third-parties in general, including, under the terms set out in Article 252, §2º of Law Nº 6.404/76, subscription to the capital increase of ULTRAPAR.

6.           Quorum, abstentions, voting declarations and protests received. All the decisions were taken by unanimous vote.

7.           Statements. The shareholder Dynamo Internacional Gestão de Recursos Ltda, presented a statement, which was read and received by the Board of the Meeting, and which will be filed in the Company headquarters.

8.           Closing. There being no further business to discuss, the minutes of this meeting were transcript, and after being read and approved, were signed by the shareholders representing the quorum needed for the approval of the decisions reached at this meeting.


This is a true and faithful copy of the original recorded in the minutes book.

Porto Alegre, December 18, 2007



Mauro Teixeira Sampaio
Pedro Costa
Chairman
Secretary
 


 
This document relates to a proposed transaction involving Ultrapar Participações S.A. (“Ultrapar”), Refinaria de Petróleo Ipiranga S.A. (“RPI”), Distribuidora de Produtos de Petróleo Ipiranga S.A. (“DPPI”) and Companhia Brasileira de Petróleo Ipiranga (“CBPI” and together with RPI and DPPI, the “Target Companies”). In connection with the proposed transaction, Ultrapar has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) a registration statement on Form F-4 (File no. 333-146406) (the “Registration Statement”) to register Ultrapar preferred shares to be issued in the proposed transaction and that includes a prospectus of Ultrapar. Ultrapar has also filed, and intends to continue to file, additional relevant materials with the SEC. The Registration Statement and the related prospectus contain important information about Ultrapar, the Target Companies, the proposed transaction and related matters.  Investors will be able to obtain copies of the offering document and other documents from the SEC's Public Reference Room at 100 F Street N.E., Washington D.C., 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the Public Reference Room. The documents may also be obtained from the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov, which contains reports and other information regarding registrants that file electronically with the SEC. Ultrapar has also filed certain documents with the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários, the Brazilian securities commission, which are available on the CVM’s website at http://www.cvm.gov.br. In addition, documents (including any exhibits) filed with the SEC or CVM by Ultrapar will be available free of charge from the Investor Relations office of Ultrapar Participações S.A., located at Avenida Brigadeiro Luis Antonio, 1343, 9º Andar São Paulo, SP, Brazil 01317-910, tel: 011-55-11-3177-6695. SHAREHOLDERS OF THE TARGET COMPANIES ARE URGED TO READ THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC, INCLUDING THE PROSPECTUS, BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION.