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Polight ASA

Share Issue/Capital Change May 7, 2024

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poLight ASA: Results of the Rights Issue

poLight ASA: Results of the Rights Issue

NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN CANADA,

JAPAN, AUSTRALIA OR THE UNITED STATES, OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH

RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT DOES

NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER OF ANY OF THE SECURITIES DESCRIBED HEREIN.

Reference is made to previous stock exchange announcements from poLight ASA

("poLight" or the "Company") regarding the Company's partially underwritten

rights issue of minimum 56,313,623 new shares and maximum 69,305,075 new shares

(the "Offer Shares"), to raise gross proceeds of up to NOK 160 million (the

"Rights Issue"), of which an underwriting consortium has agreed to underwrite

subscription of new shares for gross proceeds of NOK 130 million.

The subscription period for the Rights Issue expired on 7 May 2024, at 16.30

hours (CEST). At the expiry of the subscription period in the Rights Issue, the

Company had received valid subscriptions for a total of 60,481,758 Offer Shares.

The Rights Issue was therefore oversubscribed by approximately 7.4% at the

minimum amount of Offer Shares. The final allocation of the Offer Shares has now

been completed based on the allocation criteria set out in the prospectus

prepared by the Company in connection with the Rights Issue, dated 22 April 2024

(the "Prospectus").

The final allocation shows that:

· 50,048,137 Offer Shares have been allocated based on validly exercised

subscription rights during the subscription period (equivalent to approx. 72.2%

of the issued subscription rights); and

· 10,433,621 Offer Shares have been allocated to (i) underwriters of the

Rights Issue which have subscribed for Offer Shares during the subscription

period without subscription rights, and (ii) subscribers which have over

-subscribed for Offer Shares during the subscription period with subscription

rights;

The total final allocation was 60,481,758 Offer Shares, equivalent to approx.

NOK 140 million in gross proceeds to the Company. All valid subscriptions

therefore received full allocation. No Offer Shares have been allocated to the

underwriters of the Rights Issue pursuant to their net underwriting obligations.

Notification of allocated Offer Shares and the corresponding subscription amount

to be paid by each subscriber will be distributed on 8 May 2024. The payment

date for the Offer Shares is Monday 13 May 2024.

The Offer Shares may not be transferred or traded before they have been fully

paid by all subscribers and the share capital increase pertaining to the Rights

Issue has been registered with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises.

Subject to timely payment of the aggregate subscription amount in the Rights

Issue, it is expected that the Company's new share capital following the Rights

Issue will be registered with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises on

or about 21 May 2023 and that Offer Shares will be delivered to subscribers on

or about 22 May 2024. Subject to the aforementioned, the Offer Shares are

expected to be tradable on the Oslo Stock Exchange on or about 22 May 2024.

Advisers:

Pareto Securities AS has been retained by the Company to act as manager and

bookrunner for the Rights Issue.

Advokatfirmaet CLP DA is acting as legal adviser to the Company in connection

with the Rights Issue.

Further information from:

Dr. Øyvind Isaksen, CEO, poLight ASA: +47 90 87 63 98

About poLight ASA

poLight ASA (OSE: PLT) offers patented, state-of-the-art tunable optics

technology, leveraging its proprietary polymer and piezo MEMS technology.

Founded in 2005, its first product TLens® replicates "the human eye" experience

in autofocus cameras used in applications such as AR/MR devices, smartphones,

wearables, webcams and other consumer devices, industrial barcode scanners and

machine vision systems, and healthcare applications. With over 160 granted

patents, poLight's technology delivers extremely fast focus, small

footprint, ultra-low power consumption, no magnetic interference, and constant

field of view, enabling better imaging system performance and new user

experiences compared to alternative technologies.  poLight is based in Horten,

Norway, with employees in Finland, France, UK, US, China, Taiwan, and the

Philippines. For more information, please visit https://www.polight.com.

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. Any offering of the securities referred to in

this announcement will be made by means of a prospectus approved by the

Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway and published by the Company.

Investors should not subscribe for any securities referred to in this

announcement except on the basis of information contained in the aforementioned

prospectus.

This information is considered to be inside information pursuant to the EU

Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and is subject to the disclosure requirements

pursuant to Section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act. The stock

exchange announcement was published by Alf Henning Bekkevik, CFO, at the time

and date provided.

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") or with any securities regulatory authority of any state or other

jurisdiction in the United States and may not be offered, sold, pledged or

otherwise transferred within the United States. 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.

In any member state of the European Economic Area (each, an "EEA Member State"),

this communication is only addressed to and is only directed at qualified

investors in that EEA Member State within the meaning of the 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 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

on or relied on by persons who are not relevant persons. Any investment or

investment activity to which this communication relates is available only for

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.

Matters discussed in this announcement may constitute forward-looking

statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical

facts and may be identified by words such as "believe", "expect", "anticipate",

"strategy", "intends", "estimate", "will", "may", "continue", "should" and

similar expressions. The forward-looking statements in this release are based

upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, 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. Actual

events may differ significantly from any anticipated development due to a number

of factors, including without limitation, changes in public sector investment

levels, changes in the general economic, political and market conditions in the

markets in which the Company operates, the Company's ability to attract, retain

and motivate qualified personnel, changes in the Company's ability to engage in

commercially acceptable acquisitions and strategic investments, and changes in

laws and regulation and the potential impact of legal proceedings and actions.

Such risks, uncertainties, contingencies, and other important factors could

cause actual events to differ materially from the expectations expressed or

implied in this release by such forward-looking statements. The Company does not

make any guarantee that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking

statements in this announcement are free from errors nor does it accept any

responsibility for the future accuracy of the opinions expressed in this

announcement or any obligation to update or revise the statements in this

announcement to reflect subsequent events. You should not place undue reliance

on the forward-looking statements in this announcement.

The information, opinions and forward-looking statements contained in this

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

notice. The Company does not undertake any obligation to review, update,

confirm, or to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements

to reflect events that occur or circumstances that arise in relation to the

content of this announcement.

Neither the Manager nor any of its affiliates makes any representation as to the

accuracy or completeness of this announcement and none of them accepts any

responsibility for the contents of this announcement or any matters referred to

herein.

This announcement is for information purposes only and is not to be relied upon

in substitution for the exercise of independent judgment. It is not intended as

investment advice and under no circumstances is it to be used or considered as

an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or a

recommendation to buy or sell any securities of the Company. Neither the Manager

nor any of its affiliates accepts any liability arising from the use of this

announcement.

In connection with the Rights Issue, the Manager and any of its affiliates,

acting as investors for their own accounts, may subscribe for or purchase shares

and in that capacity may retain, purchase, sell, offer to sell or otherwise deal

for their own accounts in such shares and other securities of the Company or

related investments in connection with the Rights Issue or otherwise.

Accordingly, references in any subscription materials to the shares being

issued, offered, subscribed, acquired, placed or otherwise dealt in should be

read as including any issue or offer to, or subscription, acquisition, placing

or dealing by, the Manager and any of its affiliates acting as investors for

their own accounts. The Manager does not intend to disclose the extent of any

such investment or transactions otherwise than in accordance with any legal or

regulatory obligations to do so.

The distribution of this announcement and other information may be restricted by

law in certain jurisdictions. Persons into whose possession this announcement or

such other information should come are required to inform themselves about and

to observe any such restrictions.

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