Prices American Depositary Share at $20.34 per ADS NEW YORK and MUMBAI, India, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Patni Computer Systems Limited (Patni) announced today that its initial public offering and listing on the NYSE of 6,875,000 American Depositary Shares (ADSs) will occur on December 8, 2005. The ADSs will begin trading under the ticker symbol "PTI." The price for each American Depositary Share (ADS) has been fixed at US $20.34. The ADS Offering comprises 5.125 million primary ADSs, 1.75 million secondary ADSs and up to an additional 1.03125 million primary ADSs under the over-allotment option given to the underwriters. Each ADS represents two equity shares. The underwriters are Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC, Merrill Lynch & Co., ABN AMRO Rothschild LLC, Jefferies and Macquarie Bank Ltd. Patni has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before investing, prospective investors should read the prospectus in the registration statement and other documents Patni has filed with the SEC for more complete information about Patni and this offering. These documents may be got for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at http://www.sec.gov/. Alternatively, investors may request to receive the prospectus by contacting Goldman, Sachs & Co, attention Prospectus Department, 85 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004, by fax: 212-902-9316 or by e-mail at . About Patni Computer Systems Ltd Patni Computer Systems Limited (NYSE:PTINYSE:BSE:NYSE:PATNINYSE:COMPUTNYSE:NSE:NYSE:PATNI) is a leading Indian provider of information technology services. Patni offers its services through industry-focused practices, including insurance, manufacturing, financial services, and telecommunications, and through technology-focused practices. Patni's service lines include application development, application maintenance and support, packaged software implementation, infrastructure management services, product engineering services, business process outsourcing and quality assurance services. For more information please contact: For Patni (India) Text 100 Aru Sayed - 9820052444 Ketan Jain - 98203 03412 Kavita Karnani - 9833097261 Tel : +91 22 56595519/20 For Patni (USA) Text 100 Public Relations Sean Audet - 617-399-4906 Sriya Kodial - 617-399-4918 Text 100 US - 617-723-1044 DATASOURCE: Patni Computer Systems Ltd CONTACT: Aru Sayed, +9820052444, or Ketan Jain, +98203 03412, or Kavita Karnani, +9833097261, all for Patni Computer Systems Ltd (India), +91 22 56595519/20, or Sean Audet, +1-617-399-4906, or Sriya Kodial, +1-617-399-4918, both for Patni Computer Systems Ltd (US), +1-617-723-1044 Web site: http://www.patni.com/ http://www.sec.gov/

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