Share Issue/Capital Change • Feb 5, 2018
Share Issue/Capital Change
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Scatec Solar ASA: Exercise of employee share options and share capital increase
Oslo, February 5, 2018: The Board of Directors of Scatec Solar ASA ("Scatec
Solar") has resolved to issue 216,202 shares to key employees following exercise
of employee share options, pursuant to the company's share option program
established in 2016.
Through share option exercise, Scatec Solar is increasing the number of shares
by 0,2% to 103,412,432.
Upon exercise, all primary insiders are utilising the after-tax gain from the
option program to buy new shares. This implies that some shares are sold to fund
the tax on the options gain as is customary when exercising share options.
Exercise of options by primary insiders:
Raymond Carlsen, Chief Executive Officer, has exercised options for 38,775
shares.
Terje Pilskog, EVP Project Development & Project Finance, has exercised options
for 25,979 shares.
Roar Haugland, EVP Business Development has exercised options for 22,420 shares.
Mikkel Tørud, Chief Financial Officer has exercised options for 29,843 shares.
Torstein Berntsen, EVP Power Production & Asset Management has exercised options
for 24,636 shares.
Snorre Valdimarsson, EVP General Counsel has exercised options for 22,420
shares.
The primary insiders mentioned above transferred their rights to receive shares
resulting from the exercise of options to a third party. The sales amount will
be finally determined on the basis of the price subsequently obtained by the
third party in the market. The results of the sales process and final number of
new shares for primary insides will be announced in a sperate stock exchange
notice when known.
Primary insider holdings after the option exercise, but before completing sales
and purchases of shares:
Raymond Carlsen holds: (i) 2,794,535 shares in Scatec Solar through Argentos AS,
(ii) 77,551 unexercised options at a strike price of NOK 28.86, (iii) 76,098
unexercised options at a strike price of NOK 48.43.
Terje Pilskog holds: (i) 515,247 shares in Scatec Solar through Océmar AS, (ii)
51,959 unexercised options at a strike price of NOK 28.86, (iii) 48,601
unexercised options at a strike price of NOK 48.43.
Roar Haugland holds: (i) 258,155 shares in Scatec Solar through Buzz Aldrin AS,
(ii) 24,841 unexercised options at a strike price of NOK 28.86, (iii) 43,579
unexercised options at a strike price of NOK 48.43.
Mikkel Tørud holds: (i) 308,283 shares in Scatec Solar, (ii) 59,686 unexercised
options at a strike price of NOK 28.86, (iii) 55,831 unexercised options at a
strike price of NOK 48.43.
Torstein Berntsen and associated parties holds: (i) 703,140 shares in Scatec
Solar, (ii) 49,272 unexercised options at a strike price of NOK 28.86, (iii)
46,090 unexercised options at a strike price of NOK 48.43.
Snorre Valdimarsson holds: (i) 22,640 shares in Scatec Solar, (ii) 44,841
unexercised options at a strike price of NOK 28.86, (iii) 43,579 unexercised
options at a strike price of NOK 48.43.
All options granted to primary insiders as mentioned above are granted in
accordance with the company's share option program established in 2016, as
described in the company's annual financial statements for 2016. Please also
refer to the announcements made by the company on 6 October 2016 and 3 January
2018 for additional details regarding options held by primary insiders.
Share capital after the option exercise:
Scatec Solar's share capital will be increased with NOK 5,405.05, by issuing
216,202 new shares at a subscription price of NOK 28.86. Following completion of
the share capital increase, the company's share capital will be NOK
2,585,310.80 divided on 103,412,432 shares, each with a nominal value of
NOK 0.025.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Mikkel Tørud, CFO, tel: +47 976 99 144, [email protected]
About Scatec Solar:
Scatec Solar is an integrated independent solar power producer, delivering
affordable, rapidly deployable and sustainable clean energy worldwide. A long-
term player, Scatec Solar develops, builds, owns, operates and maintains solar
power plants and has an installation track record of 1000 MW.
The company is producing electricity from 322 MW of solar power plants in the
Czech Republic, South Africa, Rwanda, Honduras and Jordan and another 394 MW are
under construction.
With an established global presence, the company is growing briskly with a
project backlog and pipeline of 1.5 GW under development in the Americas,
Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Scatec Solar is headquartered in Oslo, Norway
and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol 'SSO'.
To learn more, visit www.scatecsolar.com.
This information is subject to disclosure pursuant to section 4-2 of the
Norwegian Securities Act and the disclosure requirements pursuant to section
5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
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