Crescent NV — Major Shareholding Notification 2021

Nov 12, 2021

REGULATED INFORMATION

Disclosure of a transparency notification (Article 14(1) of the Law of 2 May 2007 on disclosure of major holdings)

Leuven, Belgium – November 12, 2021 – 18h00 - Crescent (EURONEXT: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY) has today received a transparency notification from Mr. Eric Van Zele indicating that the shareholding threshold of Mr. Van Zele, and Van Zele Holding NV of jointly 30% was undercut. The relevant details of this transparency notification are as follows:

Reason for notification

Acquisition or transfer of voting securities or voting rights.

Notification by

A parent or controlling person

Person making the notification

Mr. Eric Van Zele and Van Zele Holding NV

Date of threshold crossing

28/10/2021

Threshold exceeded 30%

Denominator: total number of shares

1,697,689,345

Detail of the notification

A) Voting rights	Prior notification	After transaction
	#voting rights	#voting rights		% voting rights
Holders of voting rights		Related to securities	Not related to securities	Related to securities		Not related to securities
Eric VAN ZELE	79,858,495	21,861,057		0	1.29 %		0.00 %
VAN ZELE HOLDING NV	453,562,034	462,562,034		0	27.25 %		0.00 %
Subtotal	533,420,529	484,423,091			28.53 %
	TOTAL	484,423,091		0	28.53 %		0.00 %

Additional information

Sale off-exchange of 50 million Crescent NV shares by Mr. Eric Van Zele to a third party.

More details are available on CRESCENT's website: https://www.option.com/about-investor/ & https://www.crescent-ventures.com/ In accordance with the Articles of Association, the threshold above which a shareholding must be disclosed was set at 3%.

CONTACT

Edwin Bex Gaston Geenslaan 14 B-3001 Leuven, Belgium TEL: +32 (0) 16 31 74 11 E-mail: investor@option.com www.option.com www.crescent-ventures.com

In the case of inconsistencies in the Dutch original text and the English translation, the Dutch original version shall prevail.