Zalaris

Share Issue/Capital Change • Jun 10, 2021

Private Placement successfully completed

Private Placement successfully completed

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Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement by Zalaris ASA ("Zalaris" or the "Company", ticker code "ZAL") earlier today regarding a contemplated private placement of up to approx. 2.3 million shares (the "Private Placement").

The Company is pleased to announce that the Private Placement has been successfully completed, raising approximately NOK 140 million in gross proceeds through the allocation of in total 2,322,300 shares in the Company at a price of NOK 60 per share (the "Offer Shares"). The Private Placement took place through an accelerated book-building process managed by Arctic Securities AS and SpareBank 1 Markets AS (jointly, the "Managers"), as joint bookrunners after close of market today, on 10 June 2021. The Private Placement attracted strong interest from high-quality institutional and private investors and was significantly oversubscribed.

Out of the total transaction, 2,012,300 Offer Shares are new shares to be issued by the Company raising gross proceeds of approximately NOK 120 million to the Company, and 310,000 Offer Shares are existing shares sold by AHAG Vermögensverwaltung GmbH and the Company.

The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of new shares in the Private Placement to:

• Finance the cash purchase price payable for the Company's strategic acquisition of ba.se. service & consulting GmbH.

• Pursue and fund near-term growth opportunities identified by the Company.

• Fund further business development and value accretion.

• General corporate purposes.

The net proceeds from the Company's sale of existing shares will be used to settle fully vested RSUs in cash. The Company will not receive any proceeds from AHAG Vermögensverwaltung GmbH's sale of existing shares.

Completion of the Private Placement and the issuance of the new shares in connection with the Offer Shares were resolved by the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") at a board meeting held earlier today, pursuant to an authorisation given at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 20 May 2021.

Notification of allocation, including settlement instructions are expected to be distributed by the Managers on or about 11 June 2021, with settlement on a delivery versus payment (DVP) basis on or about 15 June 2021.

Delivery versus payment settlement of the Offer Shares will be facilitated by existing and unencumbered shares in the Company that are already listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. New shares to be issued by the Company will be settled towards investors with shares made available pursuant to a share lending agreement between by Arctic Securities AS (on behalf of the Managers), the Company and Norwegian Retail AS. Following registration of the share capital increase pertaining to the Private Placement in the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises, the Company will have 22,135,279 shares issued and outstanding, each with a par value of NOK 0.10.

The Private Placement implies a deviation from the pre-emptive rights of the existing shareholders of the Company under the Norwegian Public Limited Companies Act. The Board has considered this and is of the view that it would be in the best interest of the Company and its shareholders to deviate from the existing shareholders' pre-emptive right to the new shares in the Private Placement, and that this would also be in compliance with the requirements in the Norwegian Public Limited Companies Act on equal treatment of shareholders and the prohibition against giving anyone an unreasonable advantage at the Company's or the shareholders' expense, the obligation relating to equal treatment of shareholders under the Continuing Obligations of companies admitted to trading on Oslo Børs, c.f. Rule Book Part II section 2.1 and Oslo Børs' Circular no. 2/2014. In reaching this conclusion, the Board inter alia emphasized that:

• the proposed subscription price of NOK 60 per share is based on the investor interest obtained following a pre-sounding of the Private Placement with wall-crossed investors and a publicly announced book-building process conducted by leading investment banks and the subscription price represent professional investors' view of the market price for the shares for a share offering of this size.

• the subscription price represented a smaller discount to the prices at which the Company's shares had been traded on Oslo Børs prior to the announcement of the Private Placement (approx. 5.2% discount to WVAP the last ten trading days) and the number of new shares represent only 10% of the existing number of shares in the Company, and a dilution of existing shareholders below 10%.

• all existing shareholders participating in the Private Placement were allocated shares equal to at least their pro-rata ownership in the Company. Further a substantial amount of the Company's existing shareholders was offered to participate in the Private Placement.

• a share issue in the form of a private placement enabled the Company to capitalise on current market conditions which were deemed beneficial to the interest of the Company and its shareholders. Such benefits would not be obtainable by structures with longer lead time such as a rights offering.

The Company will not carry out a subsequent offering.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS is acting as legal advisor to the Company in connection with the Private Placement.

For further information, please contact:

Hans-Petter Mellerud, CEO and founder

Mobile: +47 928 97 276

E-mail: hans-petter.mellerud@zalaris.com

Gunnar Manum, CFO

Mobile: +47 951 79 190

E-mail: gunnar.manum@zalaris.com

About Zalaris:

Zalaris simplify HR and payroll administration, and empower you with useful information so that you can invest more in people. We are a leading service provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions across Europe, serving more than 1.5 million employees monthly with an annual revenue of 78 million Euros (2020). We hold #1 or #2 positions in most of our markets. Our consultants have more than 21 years of experience in transforming HR with our clients. Simplify

work life. Achieve more. For more information about us, go to zalaris.com.

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5 -12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act and the EU Market Abuse Regulation. This stock exchange release was published by Gunnar Manum, CFO, on 10 June 2021 at 23:15 CEST.

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.

In any EEA Member State, this communication is only addressed to and is only directed at qualified investors in that 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 Member State).

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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.

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..

In connection with the Offering, the Managers and any of their 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 Offering 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, such Manager and any of their affiliates acting as investors for their own accounts. The Managers do 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.

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