Climeon Announces Final Outcome of the Company's Fully Guaranteed Rights Issue
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INSIDER INFORMATION: The Board of Directors of Climeon AB (publ) (“Climeon” or the “Company”) has conducted the Company’s fully guaranteed rights issue of a maximum of 35 664 407 Class B shares, as decided upon by the Company’s Board of Directors on 25 May 2022 by virtue of the authorization from the Company’s Annual General Meeting on 18 May 2022, with preferential rights for the Company’s existing shareholders (the “Rights Issue”). The subscription price in the Rights Issue was determined to SEK 4.50. The Company announces today the outcome of the Rights Issue, whose subscription period ended on 17 June 2022, where a total of 35 664 407 shares, corresponding to 100 percent of the offered shares, have been allocated after the end of the subscription period. 27 968 664 shares were subscribed for with subscription rights and 2 491 312 shares were subscribed for without subscription rights, corresponding to a total of 85.4 percent of the Rights Issue. The remaining number of shares have been subscribed by external investors that on beforehand provided guarantee undertakings. The Company will through the Rights Issue raise proceeds of approximately SEK 160 million before deduction of costs related to the Rights Issue.
Outcome of the rights issue
The subscription period of the Rights Issue occurred between 3 June 2022 and 17 June 2022. The final outcome of the Rights Issue shows that 27 968 664 shares were subscribed for with subscription rights (including subscription commitments provided in advance), corresponding to approximately 78.4 percent of the Rights Issue. In addition, the Company received subscriptions without subscription rights of 2 491 312 shares corresponding to approximately 7.0 percent of the Rights Issue. In total, subscriptions were received for 30 459 976 shares corresponding to approximately 85.4 percent of the Rights Issue. External investors that on beforehand provided guarantee undertakings will subscribe for the remaining 5 204 431 shares corresponding to approximately 14.6 percent of the Rights Issue.
About the Rights Issue
The Rights Issue was fully guaranteed through subscription commitments from existing shareholders as well as guarantee undertakings from external investors. Through the Rights Issue, the Company will raise approximately SEK 160 million before deduction of costs related to the Rights Issue, which are estimated to approximately SEK 21 million including remuneration for provided guarantee undertakings that the guarantors have decided to receive in cash. The Company will use the net proceeds to strengthen the Company’s financial position and to be able to conduct the Company’s business plan and strategy, where the main area of use for the capital is completion and commercialization of the next-generation HeatPower module as well as to finance the ongoing business.
Notice of allotment and delivery of shares
Shareholders that have sent their application of subscription with subscription rights as well as payment will directly following the receipt of these paid subscribed shares booked on their securities accounts. Investors that have been allocated shares without subscription rights will receive a contract note, which are expected to be distributed around the 20 June 2022. Investors that have not been allocated share will not receive a notification. Subscribed and allocated shares shall be paid cash in accordance with the instructions on the contract note. Investors that have subscribed for shares without subscription rights through a manager will receive notice of the subscription in accordance with the manager’s routines.
Delivery of shares will occur when the registration of the Rights Issue has been completed with the Swedish Companies Registration Office, which is expected to occur around 1 July 2022 for shares subscribed for with subscription rights and around 4 July 2022 for shares subscribed for without subscription rights.
Trading in paid subscribed shares will continue until around 27 June 2022. The new class B shares are intended to commence trading on Nasdaq First North Growth Market in conjunction with the conversion from paid subscribed shares to ordinary shares.
Changes in share capital and number of shares and dilution
After completion of the Rights Issue, the number of shares in Climeon will increase with 35 664 407 shares, from 59 440 679 shares to 95 105 086 shares (including Class A shares). The share capital will increase with SEK 534 966, from SEK 891 610.185 to SEK 1 426 576.285. Execution of the Rights Issue results in those existing shareholders that have decided not to participate will be diluted with the equivalent of approximately 37.5 percent of the number of shares in the Company.
Advisor
DNB Markets, part of DNB Bank ASA, Sweden branch, is the financial advisor and Baker McKenzie Advokatbyrå KB is the legal advisor to the Company in relation to the Rights Issue.
For more information, please contact:
Lena Sundquist, CEO Climeon
+46 708 34 52 28
lena.sundquist@climeon.com
Carl Arnesson, CFO Climeon
+46 700 80 75 00
carl.arnesson@climeon.com
This press release constitutes inside information that Climeon AB (publ) is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014. The information was sent for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out above, at the time stated by the Company’s news distributor, Cision, at the publication of this press release.
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About Climeon AB (publ)
Climeon is a Swedish product company within energy technology. The company's unique technology for thermal power - Heat Power - makes accessible a largely unused energy source and provides sustainable electricity from hot water, around the clock, all year round. Heat Power is a cheap and renewable energy source with the potential to replace much of the energy that today comes from coal, nuclear power, oil and gas. The B share is listed on the Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market. FNCA Sweden AB is a Certified Adviser, +46 (0) 8-528 00 399 info@fnca.se. Learn more at climeon.com.
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This press release is not a prospectus within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the "Prospectus Regulation") and has not been approved by any regulatory authority in any jurisdiction. A prospectus, equivalent to an EU growth prospectus, in respect of the Rights Issue referred to in this press release will be prepared and published by the Company prior to the commencement of the subscription period for the Rights Issue.
This announcement does not identify or suggest, or purport to identify or suggest, the risks (direct or indirect) that may be associated with an investment in the Company. The information contained in this announcement relating to the Rights Issue is for background purposes only and does not purport to be full or complete. No reliance may be placed for any purpose on the information contained in this announcement or its accuracy or completeness. DNB is acting for Climeon in connection with the Rights Issue and no one else and will not be responsible to anyone other than Climeon for providing the protections afforded to its clients nor for giving advice in relation to the Rights Issue or any other matter referred to herein.
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Information to distributors
Solely for the purposes of the product governance requirements contained within: (a) EU Directive 2014/65/EU on markets in financial instruments, as amended (“MiFID II”); (b) Articles 9 and 10 of Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2017/593 supplementing MiFID II; and (c) local implementing measures (together, the “MiFID II Product Governance Requirements”), and disclaiming all and any liability, whether arising in tort, contract or otherwise, which any “manufacturer” (for the purposes of the MiFID II Product Governance Requirements) may otherwise have with respect thereto, the shares in Climeon have been subject to a product approval process, which has determined that such shares are: (i) compatible with an end target market of retail investors and investors who meet the criteria of professional clients and eligible counterparties, each as defined in MiFID II; and (ii) eligible for distribution through all distribution channels as are permitted by MiFID II (the “Target Market Assessment”).
Notwithstanding the Target Market Assessment, Distributors should note that: the price of the shares in the Company may decline and investors could lose all or part of their investment; the shares in the Company offer no guaranteed income and no capital protection; and an investment in the shares in the Company is compatible only with investors who do not need a guaranteed income or capital protection, who (either alone or in conjunction with an appropriate financial or other adviser) are capable of evaluating the merits and risks of such an investment and who have sufficient resources to be able to bear any losses that may result therefrom. The Target Market Assessment is without prejudice to the requirements of any contractual, legal or regulatory selling restrictions in relation to the Rights Issue.
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