ArcticZymes Technologies — Share Issue/Capital Change 2018

Jun 14, 2018

BIOTEC - SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED PRIVATE PLACEMENT

BIOTEC - SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED PRIVATE PLACEMENT

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SECURITIES DESCRIBED HEREIN.

Tromsø, Norway, 14 June 2018

Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement by Biotec Pharmacon ASA the

("Company", ticker "BIOTEC") on 14 June 2018 regarding a contemplated private

placement of new shares directed towards new and existing Norwegian and

international investors (the "Private Placement") by issuing up to 4,390,000 new

shares each with a par value of NOK 1.00 (the "Offer Shares") representing

approximately 10% of the issued share capital of the Company. The Company is

pleased to announce that the Private Placement has been successfully completed,

raising gross proceeds of NOK 23 million at a subscription price of NOK 5.25 per

share (the "Subscription Price").

Completion of the Private Placement implies a deviation from the existing

shareholders pre-emptive rights to subscribe for and be allocated new shares.

The Board of Directors has carefully considered such deviation and has resolved

that the Private Placement is in the best interests of the Company and its

shareholders. In reaching this conclusion the Board of Directors has inter alia

considered the limited discount to previous trading prices, the dilutive effect

of the share issue, the investor interest in the transaction, the strengthening

of the shareholder base that will be achieved by the Private Placement, the

liquidity in the shares, the prevailing market conditions, transaction costs,

transaction efficiency and completion risks. Based on the above, no subsequent

"repair offering" is contemplated.

The share capital increase pertaining to the Private Placement was resolved by

the Board of Directors pursuant to an authorisation granted by the Company's

Annual General Meeting held 7 May 2018.

Settlement of the allocated Offer Shares is expected to take place on a delivery

versus payment basis on or about 19 June 2018. The Offer Shares allocated in the

Private Placement will be tradable upon the registration of the share capital

increase with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises (expected on or

about 19 June 2018). In reliance of available exceptions, no listing prospectus

will be issued in relation to the Private Placement.

Carnegie AS acted as bookrunner for the Private Placement. Wikborg Rein is legal

counsel to the Company.

For additional information:

Christian Jørgensen, CEO, +47 47 79 24 57, christian.jorgensen@biotec.no

Børge Sørvoll CFO, +47 95 29 01 87, borge.sorvoll@biotec.no

About Biotec Pharmacon ASA:

Biotec Pharmacon ASA is the parent company of Biotec BetaGlucans AS and

ArcticZymes AS. Biotec BetaGlucans develops, manufactures and markets novel

immunomodulating products, including Woulgan®, an advanced wound care product

for stalled wounds with a proprietary medicinal ingredient. ArcticZymesdevelops,

produces and markets recombinant enzymes of marine origin used in molecular DNA

technologies and diagnostics, representing growth markets where rapid

technological developments are creating a strong demand for new and improved

enzymes.

The information in this announcement is subject to the disclosure requirements

of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act section 5-12.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

This announcement is not and does not form a part of any offer for sale of

securities.

Copies of this announcement are not being made and may not be distributed or

sent into the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan or any other jurisdiction

in which such distribution would be unlawful or would require registration or

other measures.

The securities referred to in this announcement have not been and will not be

registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities

Act"), and accordingly may not be offered or sold in the United States absent

registration or an exemption from the registration requirements of the

Securities Act and in accordance with applicable U.S. state securities laws. The

Company does not intend to register any part of the offering in the United

States or to conduct a public offering of securities in the United States.

This announcement is not a prospectus for the purposes of Directive 2003/71/EC

(together with any applicable implementing measures in any Member State, the

"Prospectus Directive"). In any EEA Member State other than Norway that has

implemented the Prospectus Directive, this communication is only addressed to

and is only directed at qualified investors in that Member State within the

meaning of the Prospectus Directive, i.e., only to investors who can receive the

offer without an approved prospectus in such EEA Member State.

This communication is only being distributed to and is only directed at persons

in the United Kingdom that are (i) investment professionals falling within

Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial

Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the "Order") or (ii) high net worth entities,

and other persons to whom this announcement may lawfully be communicated,

falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all such persons together

being referred to as "relevant persons"). This communication must not be acted

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investment activity to which this communication relates is available only to

relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons. Persons

distributing this communication must satisfy themselves that it is lawful to do

so.

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announcement speak only as at its date, and are subject to change without

notice.