Share Issue/Capital Change • Jun 10, 2025
Share Issue/Capital Change
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Nordic Technology Group AS Private placement successfully completed
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SECURITIES DESCRIBED HEREIN.
Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement published by Nordic
Technology Group AS ("NTG" or the "Company") on 10 June 2025 regarding the
launch of a private placement of shares in the Company (the "Private
Placement").
Following closing of the bookbuilding period, the Company is pleased to
announce that the Private Placement has been successfully completed, and that
its Board of Directors (the "Board") has allocated 70,900,000 new shares (the
"Offer Shares") at a subscription price of NOK 1 per New Share (the
"Subscription Price") and 3,345,000 Guarantee Shares (as defined in the launch
announcement).
The Private Placement will result in gross cash proceeds of NOK 50,900,000 to
the Company, with NOK 20 million of the Private Placement being settled
through conversion of loans provided by Televenture Capital AS and Televenture
Management XII AS (together, "Televenture") to the Company.
The net proceeds to the Company from the Private Placement will be used to
cover working capital financing in the subsidiaries Wavetrain Systems and
Hammertech, as well as general corporate purposes in the Company. The proceeds
from the Private Placement are expected to ensure that the Company is funded
for its operations for at least the next 12 months.
The following primary insiders and close associates were allocated Offer
Shares:
* Skips AS Tudor, a close associate to board member Georg J. Espe, was
allocated 5,000,000 Offer Shares and 250,000 Guarantee Shares;
* August Industrier AS, a close associate to the chairperson Henrik
Christensen, was allocated 1,200,000 Offer Shares and 60,000 Guarantee
Shares; and
* Televenture, both entities being close associates to the CEO Rune Rinnan,
was allocated 20,000,000 Offer Shares and 1,000,000 Guarantee Shares (of
which 200,000 Guarantee Shares is contemplated to be transferred to
Investinor Indirekte I AS at no charge subject to separate agreement).
The Company will convene an extraordinary general meeting to be held on or
about 25 June 2025 to resolve the following matters: (i) the share capital
increase pertaining to the Private Placement in two tranches, consisting of
the cash portion and the debt conversion portion, (ii) the share capital
increase pertaining to the Guarantee Shares, and (iii) an authorisation to the
Company's Board of Directors to resolve the share capital increase pertaining
to the Repair Offering (as defined below) (together, the "GM Resolutions").
The investors who have pre-subscribed the Offer Shares have delivered
undertakings to vote in favour of the GM Resolutions.
Completion of the Private Placement, by delivery of the Offer Shares to
investors, is subject to (i) all necessary corporate resolutions being validly
made by the Company, including (without limitation) resolutions by the Board
to consummate the Private Placement and the extraordinary general meeting of
the Company duly resolving the GM Resolutions, (ii) all investors in the
Private Placement either making cash payment of their allocated Offer Shares
or converting the debt as payment for the Offer Shares, and (iii) the share
capital increase pertaining to the Offer Shares being registered with the
Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises and the Offer Shares being validly
issued in the VPS.
The Private Placement represents a deviation from the shareholders'
pre-emptive right to subscribe for the Offer Shares. The Board has considered
the Private Placement in light of the equal treatment obligations under the
Norwegian Securities Trading Act, the rules on equal treatment under Oslo Rule
Book II for companies admitted to trading on Euronext Oslo and the Oslo Stock
Exchange's Guidelines on the rule of equal treatment, and deems that the
proposed Private Placement, including the issuance of the Guarantee Shares, is
in compliance with these obligations. The Board is of the view that it is in
the common interest of the Company and its shareholders to raise equity
through a private placement. By structuring the equity raise as a private
placement, the Company was able to raise equity that will give 12-month
liquidity efficiently, with a lower discount to the current trading price, at
a lower cost and with a significantly reduced completion risk compared to a
rights issue. The Company considered a rights issue instead of a private
placement. The Company is of the opinion that a rights issue would have to be
on a fairly significant discount, and guaranteed by a consortium of
underwriters which would also be at a higher cost for the Company than the
commission to the investors that have pre-subscribed under the Private
Placement.
To mitigate the dilutive effect of the Private Placement the Company intends
to conduct a subsequent offering of new shares limited upwards to the NOK
equivalent of EUR 1 million (the "Repair Offering") at the same subscription
price as in the Private Placement directed towards shareholders in the Company
as of 10 June 2025 (as registered in the VPS on 12 June 2025) who (i) were not
allocated Offer Shares in the Private Placement and (ii) are not resident in a
jurisdiction where such offering would be unlawful or, for jurisdictions other
than Norway, would require any prospectus, filing, registration or similar
action. Completion of the Repair Offering is subject to inter alia, the GM
Resolutions being passed and prevailing market conditions.
Arctic Securities AS is acting as manager and Advokatfirmaet Wiersholm AS is
acting as legal counsel to the Company in connection with the Private
Placement.
For additional information, please contact:
CEO Rune Rinnan
Mob. +47 900 56 028
Important notice:
This announcement is not and does not form a part of any offer to sell, or a
solicitation of an offer to purchase, any securities of the Company. Copies of
this announcement are not being made and may not be distributed or sent into
any 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 applicable 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. Any sale in the United States of the securities mentioned in this
announcement will be made solely to "qualified institutional buyers" as
defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
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Prospectus Regulation, i.e., only to investors who can receive the offer
without an approved prospectus in such EEA Member State. The expression
"Prospectus Regulation" means Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 as amended (together
with any applicable implementing measures in any Member State.
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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
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Matters discussed in this announcement may constitute forward-looking
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"anticipate", "strategy", "intends", "estimate", "will", "may", "continue",
"should" and similar expressions. The forward-looking statements in this
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upon further assumptions. Although the Company believe that these assumptions
were reasonable when made, these assumptions are inherently subject to
significant known and unknown risks, uncertainties, contingencies and other
important factors which are difficult or impossible to predict, and are beyond
their control. Such risks, uncertainties, contingencies and other important
factors could cause actual events to differ materially from the expectations
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