Energeia AS announces successful placing of private placement

06 Dec 2022 17:31 CET

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Oslo, 6 December 2022: Reference is made to the previous announcements from
Energeia AS (“Energeia” or the “Company”) published on 5 December 2022 and 6
December 2022 regarding a contemplated Private Placement (as defined below) and
admission to trading on Euronext Growth Oslo (the “Admission”).

The application period of the Private Placement expired on 6 December 2022 at
14:00 (CET) and the Company is pleased to announce that the Private Placement
has been successfully placed through the allocation of 36,730,559 new shares in
the Company (the “New Shares”) at a price of NOK 2.475 per share (the
“Subscription Price”), raising gross proceeds of NOK 90.9 million. In addition,
the Managers (as defined below) have over-allocated 3,669,441 additional
existing shares (the “Additional Shares” and, together with the New Shares the
“Offer Shares”) (the “Private Placement”).

The Board of Directors of the Company has today resolved to consummate the
Private Placement on the basis of the board authorisation to issue new shares
granted by the extraordinary general meeting of the Company held on 2 December
2022 and registered in the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises ("NRBE")
on 5 December 2022 and the conditional allocation of Offer Shares, subject to
fulfilment of the Conditions as set out below.

Newly elected chair of the board, taking effect from the first day of trading of
the Company's shares on Euronext Growth Oslo, Ragnhild Wiborg, has subscribed
for and been allocated 100,000 shares.

The net proceeds to the Company from the Private Placement will be used (i) to
acquire the Dutch O&M companies ASN for approximately NOK 50 million (subject to
certain conditions being fulfilled); (ii) to repay a shareholder loan to
Jakobsen Energia AS of approx. NOK 10 million and net debt to EAM Solar ASA of
approx. NOK 14 million; and (iii) for additional project developments and
general corporate purposes.

The Company, certain large shareholders (Sundt AS) and members of the Company's
management have entered into customary lock-up arrangements with the Managers
that restrict, subject to certain exceptions, their ability to issue, sell or
dispose of shares in the Company, as applicable, for a period of 6 months for
the Company and Sundt AS, and 12 months for the members of management, from the
date of commencement of trading in the shares on Euronext Growth Oslo, without
the prior written consent of the Managers.

The Additional Shares will be settled by existing shares borrowed by the
Managers from Jakobsen Energia AS (3,669,441 shares) (the "Over-allotment
Option"), and will be redelivered to the same shareholder upon expiry of the
stabilization period described below. The Company has granted Fearnley
Securities AS, acting as stabilization manager on behalf of the Managers (the
"Stabilization Manager"), an option to subscribe, at a price of NOK 2.475 per
share (which is equal to the Subscription Price in the Private Placement), up to
a number of additional new shares equal to the number of Additional Shares to
cover any short positions resulting from the over-allotment of the Additional
Shares not covered through share purchases made as part of any stabilization
activities (the "Greenshoe Option").

The completion of the Private Placement is subject to the following conditions
(the “Conditions”) being met: (i) all the corporate resolutions of the Company
required to implement the Private Placement being validly made, (ii) the placing
agreement between the Company, the Share Lender and the Managers (the “Placing
Agreement”) being in full force and effect and the Company and the Share Lender
having complied with the terms and conditions of the Placing Agreement in all
material respects, and (iii) payment in full of the Offer Shares, (iv) the
share capital increase pertaining to the issuance of the allocated New Shares
being validly registered with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises,
and (v) the Oslo Stock Exchange approving the Company’s application for listing
of its shares on Euronext Growth Oslo.

There will be in total 117,545,871 shares in issue in Energeia following the
issuance of the New Shares, each with a nominal value of NOK 0.02, resulting in
a post-money market capitalisation of the Company of approximately NOK 291
million based on the Subscription Price.

Notification of conditional allocation to investors is expected to be
communicated on or about 7 December 2022. The Private Placement is expected to
be settled by the Managers on a delivery-versus-payment basis on or about 13
December 2022 following the registration of the new share capital in the
Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises and the issuance of the New Shares in
VPS. The delivery-versus-payment settlement of the New Shares in the Private
Placement, excluding New Shares allocated to the Cornerstone Investors, is
facilitated by a pre-funding agreement between the Company and the Managers.

The Stabilization Manager, on behalf of the Managers, may carry out
stabilization activities during the period commencing on the first day of
trading of the Company's shares on Euronext Growth Oslo and ending at the close
of trading on the 30th calendar day following such day. Any stabilization
activities will be conducted in accordance with Commission Delegated (EU)
2016/1052 of 8 March 2016 with regard to regulatory technical standards for the
conditions applicable to buy-back programmes and stabilization measures.

The Company has applied, and expects, subject to the conditions for completion
of the Private Placement being fulfilled and necessary approvals from the Oslo
Stock Exchange, to have its shares admitted to trading on Euronext Growth Oslo.
The first day of trading on Euronext Growth Oslo is expected to be on or about
13 December 2022.

Advisors:
Fearnley Securities AS and Norne Securities AS are acting as Joint Global
Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners in respect to the Private Placement and the
Admission. Advokatfirmaet Wiersholm AS is acting as legal counsel to Energeia,
while Advokatfirmaet Grette AS is acting as legal counsel to the Managers.

For further information, please contact:
CEO, Viktor Jakobsen, email: viktor@energeia.no and telephone: +47 916 11 009
Deputy CEO, Jarl Egil Markussen, email: jarl@energeia.no and telephone: +47 480
23 214

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solicitation of an offer to purchase, any securities of the Company. The
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Actual events may differ significantly from any anticipated development due to a
number of factors, including without limitation, changes in investment levels
and need for the Company's services, changes in the general economic, political
and market conditions in the markets in which the Company operates, the
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This stock exchange release was published by Jarl Egil Markussen, Deputy CEO,
Energeia AS, on 6 December 2022 at 17:30 CET.

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