Saga Pure — M&A Activity 2025

Apr 7, 2025

Saga Pure ASA - Launch of Mandatory Offer by Saga Pure ASA to acquire all shares in S.D. Standard ETC Plc

Saga Pure ASA - Launch of Mandatory Offer by Saga Pure ASA to acquire all shares in S.D. Standard ETC Plc

NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR

INDIRECTLY, INTO OR WITHIN CANADA, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN

WHICH THE DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL

Reference is made to the announcement made by Saga Pure ASA ("Saga" or the

"Offeror") on 4 March 2025 regarding the Company's investment in S.D. Standard

ETC Plc ("SDSD" or the "Company") and its intention to launch a mandatory offer

for all remaining shares in SDSD (the "Mandatory Offer").

The Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority in its capacity as take-over

supervisory authority in Norway has, pursuant to Section 6-14 of the Norwegian

Securities Trading Act, reviewed and approved, on 4 April 2025, the offer

document for the Mandatory Offer (the "Offer Document"). The terms of the

Mandatory Offer are set out in the Offer Document.

The main terms of the Offer are:

· Offer price: NOK 1.90 in cash per share in SDSD (the "Offer Price").

· Offer period: From and including 7 April 2025 to 5 May 2025 at 16:30 CEST,

subject to extension at the sole discretion of the Offeror (the "Offer Period").

The Offer Period will in no event be extended beyond 19 May 2025.

· Settlement: In NOK, no later than two weeks after expiry of the Offer

Period.

· Receiving agent: DNB Markets, a part of DNB Bank ASA

The Offer may only be accepted on the basis of the Offer Document, which will be

distributed to the shareholders in SDSD as registered in Euronext Securities

Oslo (the Norwegian Central Securities Depository, VPS) as of the last trading

date before the date of the Offer Document, except for shareholders in

jurisdictions where it may not be lawfully distributed.

The Offer Document will, subject to regulatory restrictions in certain

jurisdictions, be available at the webpage of Saga

(https://www.sagapure.com/investor-relations). Saga will also publish a link on

its website where private investors can access for acceptance of the offer by

using Norwegian Bank-id. This is an alternative to the ordinary process by using

distributed Acceptance Forms.

Subject to regulatory restrictions in certain jurisdictions, the Offer Document

may also be obtained free of charge during ordinary business hours at the

offices of the receiving agent, DNB Bank ASA, Dronning Eufemias gate 30, 0191

Oslo, Norway.

The Offer will not be made in any jurisdiction in which the making of the Offer

would not be in compliance with the laws of such jurisdiction, and the Offer may

not be accepted by shareholders of SDSD who cannot legally accept the Offer.

ADVISORS

DNB Markets, a part of DNB Bank ASA, is acting as receiving agent for the Offer.

Advokatfirmaet CLP DA is acting as Norwegian legal counsel for the Offeror.

For technical questions regarding the registration through the distributed

Acceptance Form, the shareholder can contact the receiving agent at +47 915

04800, or at retail@dnb.no

For further information, please contact:

Espen Lundaas, CEO, +47 924 31 417

Tore Jakob Berg, CFO, +47 934 80 202

IMPORTANT NOTICE

The Offer and the distribution of this announcement and other information in

connection with the Offer may be restricted by law in certain jurisdictions. The

Offer Document and related acceptance forms are not and may not be distributed,

forwarded or transmitted into or within any jurisdiction where prohibited by

applicable law, including, without limitation, Canada, Australia and Japan. The

Offeror does not assume any responsibility in the event there is a violation by

any person of such restrictions. Persons in the United States should review

"Notice to U.S. Holders" below. Persons into whose possession this announcement

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

and to observe any such restrictions.

This announcement is for information purposes only and is not a tender offer

document and, as such, is not intended to and does not constitute or form any

part of an offer or the solicitation of an offer to purchase, otherwise acquire,

subscribe for, sell or otherwise dispose of any securities, or the solicitation

of any vote or approval in any jurisdiction, pursuant to the Offer or otherwise.

Investors may accept the Offer only on the basis of the information provided in

the Offer Document. Offers will not be made directly or indirectly in any

jurisdiction where either an offer or participation therein is prohibited by

applicable law or where any tender offer document or registration or other

requirements would apply in addition to those undertaken in Norway and Cyprus.

Shareholders of SDSD must rely upon their own examination of the Offer Document.

Each shareholder should study the Offer Document carefully in order to be able

to make an informed and balanced assessment of the Offer and the information

that is discussed and described therein. Shareholders should not construe the

contents of this announcement as legal, tax or accounting advice, or as

information necessarily applicable to each shareholder. Each shareholder should

seek independent advice from its own financial and legal advisors prior to

making a decision to accept the Offer.

NOTICE TO U.S. HOLDERS

U.S. Holders (as defined below) are advised that the Shares are not listed on a

U.S. securities exchange and that the Company is not subject to the periodic

reporting requirements of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended

(the "U.S. Exchange Act"), and is not required to, and does not, file any

reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") thereunder.

The Offer will be made to holders of Shares resident in the United States ("U.S.

Holders") on the same terms and conditions as those made to all other holders of

Shares of the Company to whom an offer is made. Any information documents,

including the Offer Document, will be disseminated to U.S. Holders on a basis

comparable to the method that such documents are provided to the Company's other

Shareholders to whom an offer is made. The Offer will be made by the Offeror and

no one else.

Pursuant to an exemption from Rule 14e-5 under the U.S. Exchange Act, the

Offeror and its affiliates or brokers (acting as agents for the Offeror or its

affiliates, as applicable) may from time to time, and other than pursuant to the

Offer, directly or indirectly, purchase or arrange to purchase, Shares or any

securities that are convertible into, exchangeable for or exercisable for such

shares outside the United States during the period in which the Offer remains

open for acceptance, so long as those acquisitions or arrangements comply with

applicable Norwegian law and practice and the provisions of such exemption. To

the extent information about such purchases or arrangements to purchase is made

public in Norway, such information will be disclosed by means of an English

language press release via an electronically operated information distribution

system in the United States or other means reasonably calculated to inform U.S.

Holders of such information. In addition, the Receiving Agent may also engage in

ordinary course trading activities in securities of the Company, which may

include purchases or arrangements to purchase such securities.

Neither the SEC nor any securities supervisory authority of any state or other

jurisdiction in the United States has approved or disapproved the Offer or

reviewed it for its fairness, nor have the contents of the Offer Document or any

other documentation relating to the Offer been reviewed for accuracy,

completeness or fairness by the SEC or any securities supervisory authority in

the United States. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offence in

the United States.

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to Section 5

-12 the Norwegian Securities Trading Act