Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement published byNapatech A/S (the "Company") on7 May 2024 regarding the completion of a private placement of 9,000,000 new shares in the Company (the "Private Placement"), and the disclosure of major shareholding announcement on8 May 2024 regarding the effectuation of the share loan under a share lending agreement (the "Share Lending Agreement") between the Company,Verdane Capital VIII K/S ("Verdane"),ABG Sundal Collier ASA (acting as settlement agent on behalf of the managers in the Private Placement, the "Settlement Agent") andSpareBank 1 Markets AS , to facilitate for delivery-versus-payment settlement of the Private Placement. Today, following registration of the share capital increase pertaining to the Company's board of directors' resolution to issue 9,000,000 new shares in the Private Placement made on7 May 2024 , the Settlement Agent will redeliver 9,000,000 new shares to Verdane as settlement of the share loan made under the Share Lending Agreement. Verdane is a closely associated legal person ofChristian Jebsen , chairman of the board of directors of the Company. Please see the transaction notification form for the transaction from Verdane attached to this release. Following the effectuation of the redelivery of the share loan under the Share Lending Agreement and the registration of the share capital increase in connection with the Private Placement, Verdane holds 15,213,618 shares, corresponding to approximately 15.32% of the total share capital and voting rights in the Company. Verdane has thereby exceeded the 10% and 15% thresholds pursuant to section 38 of the Danish Capital Markets Act. For further information, please contact:Lars Boilesen , CEO Phone: +45 4596 1500 E-mail: larsb@napatech.com orHeine Thorsgaard , CFO Phone: +45 4596 1500 E-mail: htg@napatech.com About:Napatech is a leading supplier of programmable FPGA-based SmartNIC solutions used in telecom, cloud, enterprise, cybersecurity and financial applications worldwide. Through commercial-grade software suites integrated with robust, high-performance hardware,Napatech accelerates telecom, networking and security workloads to deliver best-in-class system-level performance while maximizing the availability of server compute resources for running applications and services.
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