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Cidade de Deus, Osasco, SP, December 2^nd, 2009

Securities and Exchange Commission
Office of International Corporate Finance
Division of Corporate Finance
Washington, DC

Ref.: Acquisition of Shares issued by the Company for Disposal or Cancellation

     The Board of Directors of this Bank, at a meeting held today, pursuant to Paragraph 6 of Article 6 of the Company’s Bylaws, and in compliance with the requirements set forth in Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 30 of Law # 6,404/76 and with the CVM – Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission) Instructions # 10, 268 and 390 as of February 14^th, 1980, November 13^th, 1997 and July 8^th, 2003, respectively, resolved:

I) to renew the program to acquire shares issued by the Company to be maintained in treasury and subsequent disposal or cancellation, without decreasing the Capital Stock;

II) to authorize the Board of Executive Officers to acquire up to 15,000,000 registered book-entry shares, with no par value, comprising of 7,500,000 common shares and 7,500,000 preferred shares, it is incumbent on the Board of Executive Officers to determine the opportunity and the number of shares to be effectively acquired, within the limits authorized and the duration of this resolution.

For the purposes of Article 8 of CVM Instruction # 10, as of February 14^th, 1980, it is specified that:

a) the objective of the present authorization is the application of funds registered in the “Profits Reserves - Statutory Reserves”, available for Investments;

b) it shall be valid for the period of 6 (six) months, from December 3^rd, 2009 to June 3^rd, 2010;

c) pursuant to the provisions in Article 5 of CVM Instruction # 10, the Bank has 2,015,405,363 outstanding shares, comprising of 515,536,907 common shares and 1,499,868,456 preferred shares;

d) the acquisition process of these shares shall be undertaken at market price and be mediated by Bradesco S.A. Corretora de Títulos e Valores Mobiliários, with headquarters at Avenida Paulista, 1.450, 7^o andar, Bela Vista, São Paulo, SP, and Ágora Corretora de Títulos e Valores Mobiliários S.A., with headquarters at Praia de Botafogo, 300, salas 601 and 301, parte, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ;

III) that in the event of cancellation of such purchased shares, the Board of Directors shall be responsible for submitting such cancellation for the approval of the General Shareholders’ Meeting, without decreasing the Capital Stock;

IV) to register that:

a) in relation to the authorization granted to the Board of Executive Officers during this Body’s meeting # 1,453, as of June 1^st, 2009, it was verified that until December 1^st, 2009, 5,275,000 registered book-entry shares, with no par value, were acquired, of which 2,747,000 are common shares and 2,528,000 are preferred shares, which,

b) added to the 146,721 common shares, of which 21 were sold at an auction held by the Company on 6.24.2009, resulting from the reverse split process approved at the Special Shareholders’ Meeting as of 3.10.2009, and 34,600 preferred shares already existing,

c) the total amount of 5,456,300 registered book-entry shares, of which 2,893,700 are common shares and 2,562,600 are preferred shares, which will be maintained in treasury, whereas the decision on the resale or cancellation of these shares will be made on an appropriate occasion and disclosed to the market.

Cordially,

Banco Bradesco S.A.
Domingos Figueiredo de Abreu
Executive Vice President and
Investor Relations Officer

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