Borregaard ASA: Reporting of transactions in Borregaard ASA's shares made by person discharging managerial responsibilities

14 Feb 2025 16:06 CET

14.02.25: Borregaard ASA ("Borregaard", OSE ticker: BRG)

Borregaard's Board of Directors has issued share options in accordance with the
proxy given by the Annual General Meeting held on 11 April 2024. The total
number of options issued is 398,000.

The options will expire after five years (14 February 2030) and may be exercised
in the last two years. The strike price of the options is NOK 221.22. It is
based on the volume weighted average share price (VWAP) during the first three
trading days after the announcement of the 4th quarter 2024 results with an
addition of 10%. The strike price will be adjusted for dividend and other equity
transactions. The maximum annual gain is limited to twice the annual base salary
for the Chief Executive Officer, and the equivalent to the annual base salary
for the other option holders. At least 50% of the proceeds after tax must be
used to purchase shares in the company, and the purchased shares will be locked
for a period of three years. The members of the executive management are
expected to acquire shares until their shareholdings equal their annual base
salary, and twice the base salary for the Chief Executive Officer.

The primary insiders granted stock options today have the following holdings of
options and shares in Borregaard after the new share options were issued (new
options in parenthesis):

Per A. Sørlie holds 225,000 options (60,000) and owns 165,852 shares
Per Bjarne Lyngstad holds 57,000 options (15,000) and owns 62,455 shares
Tom Erik Foss-Jacobsen holds 78,000 options (20,000) and owns 31,274 shares
Sveinung Heggen holds 47,500 options (13,000) and owns together with related
parties 26,863 shares
Ole Gunnar Jakobsen holds 57,000 options (15,000) and owns 34,022 shares
Gisle Løhre Johansen holds 57,000 options (15,000) and owns 22,475 shares
Kristin Misund holds 47,500 options (13,000) and owns 70,223 shares
Liv Longva holds 47,500 options (13,000) and owns 12,938 shares
Knut-Harald Bakke holds 26,500 options (8,500) and owns 1,954 shares
Dag Arthur Aasbø holds 47,500 options (13,000) and owns 56,755 shares

Please, see attached notifications for persons discharging managerial
responsibilities in Borregaard in accordance with Regulation EU 596/2014 (MAR)
article 19.

The total number of outstanding share options is now 1,462,000, equivalent to
1.46% of the number of shares (including 443,732 treasury shares) in Borregaard.

Contacts:
Chief Financial Officer, Per Bjarne Lyngstad, mobile +47 952 44 515
Senior Vice President Organisation and Public Affairs, Dag Arthur Aasbø, mobile
+47 918 34 108

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to Section
3-1 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act, cf. Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of
the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse
(market abuse regulation) Article 19.

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638854_Borregaard ASA - Notification primary insiders.pdf