Biotage

Transaction in Own Shares • Apr 29, 2015

Press release Biotage AB

Kontaktperson: SE-751 03 Uppsala Torben Jörgensen, VD och koncernchef Tel:018 56 59 00 Tel: 0707-49 05 84, torben.jorgensen@biotage.com www.biotage.com

Box 8

Uppsala April 29 2015

Biotage AB launches share buy-back

The board of directors of Biotage AB (publ) has resolved to start a share buy-back program in accordance with the Annual General Meeting's resolution to authorize the board to decide on the acquisition and sale of the company's own shares.

At the Annual General Meeting held on 28 April 2015, the board was authorized to decide on the acquisition and sale of the company's own shares up and until the forthcoming Annual General Meeting. The shares acquired may not exceed 10 per cent of the total number of outstanding Biotage shares at any time. The purpose of the repurchase program is to give the board a wider freedom of action in the work with the company's capital structure and thereby improve shareholder value. Acquisition and sale of shares will take place on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm at a price within the price interval at any time recorded. Biotage currently does not own any own shares.

Biotage discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the Swedish Securities Markets Act and/or the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication at 08.30 on 29 April 2015.

About Biotage

Biotage offers efficient separation technologies from analysis to industrial scale and high quality solutions for analytical chemistry from research to commercial analysis laboratories. Biotage's products are used by government authorities, academic institutions, pharmaceutical and food companies, among others. The company is headquartered in Uppsala and has offices in the US, UK, China and Japan. Biotage has approx. 290 employees and had sales of 490 MSEK in 2014. Biotage is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm stock exchange. Website: www.biotage.com