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Nanoform Finland Plc’s ten largest shareholders after the completion of the Initial Public Offering

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Nanoform Finland Plc’s (“Nanoform” or the “Company”) ten largest registered shareholders and their shares of ownership after the completion of the initial public offering based on the shareholders register maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd on June 8, 2020 unless otherwise stated:

Shareholder Number of Shares Percentage of Shares and Votes1
Nominee registered shares2 25,207,087 39.58
Helsingin Yliopiston Rahastot 5,489,640 8.62
Edward Hæggström 5,409,405 8.49
Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company3 3,114,000 4.89
Mandatum Life Insurance Company Limited4 2,995,709 4.70
Kai Falck 2,700,000 4.24
Jouko Yliruusi 2,700,000 4.24
Avohoidon Tutkimussäätiö sr5 2,638,737 4,14
Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company 1,245,000 1.95
Mika Puittinen6 824,000 1.29
Ilkka Lassila 810,000 1.27
Ten largest registered shareholders, in total 27,926,491 43.85
Other shareholders 10,551,643 16.57
In total 63,685,221 100.00

1 The Company has one share class and each share entitles its holder to one vote at the Company’s general meeting. Percentages are rounded numbers.

2 Nominee registered shares include the shares registered at Euroclear Sweden AB. The list of the largest shareholders will be updated with the indirect shareholdings registered at Euroclear Sweden AB in connection with the June 30, 2020 monthly update.

3 Based on a notification of changes of holdings of llmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company (“Ilmarinen”) on June 8, 2020, Ilmarinen owns 3,114,000 shares in the Company corresponding to 4.89 percent of the shares and votes in the Company.

4 Mandatum Life Insurance Company Limited (“Mandatum”), and Danske Bank A/S, Finland Branch (“Danske Bank”) have entered into a share lending agreement in connection with the initial public offering of the Company on June 4 2020, according to which Mandatum has on June 4, 2020 lent 2,898,551 existing shares in the Company to Danske Bank as stabilizing manager. The registered holdings of Mandatum, which amount to 2,995,709 shares, do not include the lent shares which Danske Bank will return to Mandatum after the stabilization period has ended.

5 Based on confirmation of the shareholder on June 9, 2020.

6 Mika Puittinen holds 720,000 shares in the Company directly and 104,000 shares in the Company indirectly through Mika Puittinen Holding Oy.

The following table sets forth the shareholders who owned individually 5% or more of the shares in the Company prior to listing of the Company’s shares:

Shareholder Number of Shares Percentage of Shares and Votes1
Helsingin Yliopiston rahastot 6,099,600 14.06
Edward Hæggström 6,010,450 13.85
Mandatum Life Insurance Company Limited 4,974,695 11.46
Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company 3,521,126 8.11
Kai Falck 3,000,000 6.91
Jouko Yliruusi 3,000,000 6.91
Avohoidon Tutkimussäätiö sr 2,493,810 5.75

1 The number of shares of the shareholders who sold a part of their shares in the share sale have been calculated prior to deducting the shares sold in the share sale from the total number of shares.

Notifications of major shareholdings

The Company’s Articles of Association contain an obligation for its shareholders to notify the Company if such shareholders share of voting rights in the Company reach, exceed or decrease below 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 50%, 2/3 and 90% of the total voting rights of the Company. The following table sets forth the shareholders of the Company which hold more than 5% of the shares and votes as at June 8, 2020:

Shareholder Number of Shares Percentage of Shares and Votes
Helsingin Yliopiston Rahastot 5,489,640 8.62
Edward Hæggström 5,409,405 8.49

Mandatum and Danske Bank have entered into a share lending agreement in connection with the Initial Public Offering of the Company on June 4, 2020, according to which Mandatum has on June 4, 2020 lent 2,898,551 existing shares in the Company to Danske Bank as stabilizing manager. The registered holdings of Mandatum, which amount to 2,995,709 shares, do not include the lent shares which Danske Bank will return to Mandatum after the stabilization period has ended. As at June 8, 2020, Mandatum’s shareholding would amount to 5,894,260 shares corresponding to 9.26% of shares in the Company if the shares lent to Danske Bank were taken into consideration.

Information on notifications of major shareholdings can be found on the Company’s website in English, Swedish and Finnish at www.nanoform.com.

Further enquiries:

Albert Hæggström, CFO
albert.haeggstrom@nanoform.com
+358 29 370 0150

Henri von Haartman, Director of Investor Relations
hvh@nanoform.com
+46 7686 650 11

Certified Adviser: Danske Bank A/S, Finland Branch, +358 40 562 1806

Nanoform in brief

Nanoform is an innovative nanoparticle medicine enabling company. Nanoform works together with pharma and biotech partners globally to reduce attrition in clinical trials and enhance their molecules’ formulation performance through its nanoforming services. The Company’s patented and scalable Controlled Expansion of Supercritical Solutions (CESS®) technology produces nanoformed API particles as small as 10nm. This enables poorly soluble molecules in the pharmaceutical pipeline to progress into clinical development by increasing their rate of dissolution and by improving their bioavailability. Nanoform’s unique technology provides novel opportunities in many value-enhancing drug delivery applications.

www.nanoform.com

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Certain statements in this communication are “forward-looking statements”. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, assumptions, projections, objectives, targets, goals, strategies, future events, future revenues or performance, capital expenditures, financing needs, plans or intentions relating to acquisitions, the Company’s competitive strengths and weaknesses, plans or goals relating to financial position, future operations and development, its business strategy and the anticipated trends in the industry and the political and legal environment in which it operates and other information that is not historical information, such as development and commercialization of the CESS® technology, investments, the contemplated IPO and listing, future cash flow generation, operating profit margin, financial position and liquidity. In some instances, they can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the terms “believes”, “intends”, “may”, “will” or “should” or, in each case, their negative or variations on comparable terminology.

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