Oslo, 18 June 2021: Reference is made to the stock exchange release by ECIT AS (the "Company" or "ECIT") on 20 June 2021, regarding potential stabilisation activities in connection with a private placement in the Company (the "Offering") and the admission to trading of the Company's shares on Euronext Growth Oslo.
Arctic Securities AS (the "Stabilisation Manager"), acting as stabilisation manager in connection with the Offering on behalf of the Managers (as defined below), hereby gives notice that the stabilisation period has ended. Stabilisation activities have been undertaken on Euronext Growth Oslo from and including 20 May 2021 to and including 18 June 2021. A total of 5,606,519 shares in the Company have been purchased as part of the stabilisation activities. The shares were purchased at a volume weighted average price of NOK 7.9630 per share and within the daily price ranges set out in the attached stabilisation notice.
In order to permit redelivery of 6,250,000 shares in the Company which were borrowed from Anglo Supply AS (the "Share Lender"), the Stabilisation Manager, on behalf of the Managers, has on 18 June 2021 informed the Company that it will exercise the greenshoe option partly to subscribe and purchase shares in the Company from ECIT. 643,481 new shares in the Company will be subscribed and purchased from the Company under the greenshoe option at the offer price of NOK 8 per share.
The shares subscribed and purchased under the greenshoe option will together with the shares purchased through stabilisation activities be redelivered to the Share Lender in accordance with the terms of the share lending and greenshoe option agreement entered into between the Company, the Share Lender and the Managers in connection with the Offering.
ABG Sundal Collier ASA and Arctic Securities AS acted as Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners for the Offering (the "Managers").
For further information, please contact:
Arctic Securities AS
Joakim Hald Andersen
Tel: +47 21 01 31 92
This information is subject of the disclosure requirements pursuant to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 of 8 March 2016 sections 6 (3) and 8.
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. The distribution of this announcement and other information may be restricted by law in certain jurisdictions. 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. Persons into whose possession this announcement or such other information should come are required to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions. 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 or its securities 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.
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