ATLANTA, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE) announced the pricing of its secondary offering of 8,000,000 shares of common stock at $56.00 per share. Of these shares, selling shareholders will sell 7,975,000 shares and ICE will sell 25,000 shares. ICE will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling shareholders. The underwriters have an option to purchase up to an additional 1,200,000 shares from the selling shareholders at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions. The underwriters have 30 days from the date of pricing to exercise the option to purchase such additional shares.

Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated have acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. UBS Securities LLC, William Blair & Company, L.L.C., Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P. and SG Americas Securities, LLC have served as co-managers for the offering. The offering will be made only by means of the written prospectus forming a part of the effective registration statement.

You may obtain a copy of the final prospectus relating to this offering for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC web site at http://www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus, when available, may also be obtained from Goldman, Sachs & Co., 85 Broad St., Attention: Prospectus Department, New York, NY 10004, via fax at 212-902-9316 or via e-mail at prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com, or Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014, or via email at prospectus@morganstanley.com.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction.

About IntercontinentalExchange

IntercontinentalExchange® (NYSE: ICE) operates the leading global, electronic marketplace for trading both futures and OTC energy contracts. ICE offers a range of contracts based on crude oil and refined products, natural gas, power and emissions. ICE conducts its futures markets through its regulated London-based subsidiary, ICE Futures, Europe's leading energy exchange. ICE Futures offers liquid markets in the world's leading oil benchmarks: Brent Crude futures and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude futures, as well as the leading heating oil futures contract by traded volume. ICE introduced the concept of cleared OTC energy contracts and today offers the most liquid and transparent electronic OTC market in North America. ICE also offers a range of risk management and trading support services, including customized energy market data offerings through its ICE Data business unit and electronic trade confirmations. ICE was added to the Russell 1000® Index on June 30, 2006. Headquartered in Atlanta, ICE also has offices in Calgary, Chicago, Houston, London, New York and Singapore, with regional telecommunications hubs in Chicago, New York, London and Singapore.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 -- Statements in this press release regarding IntercontinentalExchange's business that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors in Item 1(A) of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K (File No. 001-32671), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 10, 2006, and the risk factors in the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Reg. No. 333-135060), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

SOURCE IntercontinentalExchange

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