Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement published by Napatech A/S
(the "Company") on 7 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 on 8 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") and SpareBank 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 on 7 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 of Christian 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
or
Heine 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.