Misen Enterprises AB and LLC Karpatygaz Received a Final Award by Consent

On 5 November 2020, Misen Enterprises AB and LLC Karpatygaz received a Final Award by Consent from the Arbitral Tribunal in the SCC case V 2016/114. This award records a Settlement Agreement on settlement of certain legal relations:

• The total value to be paid by JSC Ukrgasvydobuvannya to Misen Enterprises AB and LLC Karpatygaz is UAH 1,575,093,162.86 (approx. KSEK 504,030) for their share in the joint property under the JAA No.3.
• JSC Ukrgasvydobuvannya is entitled to withhold a tax on non-resident income for 15% of the specified amount to Misen Enterprises AB (UAH 236,113,788, approx. KSEK 75,845) and pay the withheld amount to the budget of Ukraine. The Settlement Agreement does not regulate payment of tax, if any, in Sweden.
• Ownership of shares of Misen Enterprises AB and LLC Karpatygaz in the joint property under the JAA No.3 shall pass to JSC Ukrgasvydobuvannya from the date of full payment by JSC Ukrgasvydobuvannya to Misen Enterprises and LLC Karpatygaz of all amounts under the Settlement Agreement.

As of today, Misen Enterprises AB and LLC Karpatygaz have not received compensation from JSC Ukrgasvydobuvannya. To receive compensation, Misen Enterprises AB will immediately seek recognition and enforcement of the Final Award by Consent in Ukraine. JSC Ukrgasvydobuvannya is liable to pay compensation to Misen Enterprises AB in US dollars during five working days following the day of entry into force of the decision of the national court of Ukraine on recognition and enforcement of the Final Award by Consent.

For further information, please contact:

Göran Wolff, MD          

Direct line:  +46 31 759 50 72
Mobile:       +46 709 45 48 48
E-mail:        goran@misenenergy.se
              info@misenenergy.se

Misen Energy AB (publ) (formerly Svenska Capital Oil AB (publ)) is a Swedish upstream oil and gas company with operations in Ukraine. The company was founded in 2004 and its shares are traded on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 12 June 2007.In 2011, Misen Energy AB (publ) acquired Misen Enterprises AB and its Ukrainian subsidiary, LLC Karpatygaz, including the rights to 50.01% of the revenue and profit from a gas production project in Ukraine. Under IFRS rules, this transaction is classified as a reverse takeover. In consideration of the acquisition, a new share issue was carried out. The gas producing assets were acquired by production cooperation via a joint activity project governed by a Joint Activity Agreement between at that time the wholly-owned direct and indirect subsidiaries of Misen Energy AB (publ), i.e. Misen Enterprises AB and LLC Karpatygaz (together 50.01%) and JSC Ukrgasvydobuvannya (49.99%), a subsidiary of the National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine. JSC Ukrgasvydobuvannya is the largest producer of natural gas in Ukraine. The purpose of the Joint Activity Agreement is to significantly increase production of gas and oil by providing modern technologies via a large-scale investment program for the purposes of attainment of profits.
In June 2016 and in July 2017 Misen Energy AB (publ) sold respectively 37.5% and 10% of Misen Enterprises AB shares to the Hong Kong based company Powerful United Limited. In March 2018, Misen Energy AB (publ) sold 2% of Misen Enterprises AB shares to Mr. Konstantin Guenevski. Owning (the remaining) 50.5% of Misen Enterprises AB shares, Misen Energy AB (publ) maintains full control of the company and preserves a right to obtain 50.5% of the future dividends from the operations in Ukraine.
The registered office of Misen Energy AB (publ) is in Stockholm and the shares are traded on First North Growth Market under identification ticker MISE. The Certified Adviser of the company at Nasdaq First North Growth Market is Erik Penser Bank AB, tel.: +46 8 463 80 00, e-mail: certifiedadviser@penser.se.
For further information, please visit our website www.misenenergy.se.

This information is information that Misen Energy AB (publ) is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 16:00 CEST on 6 November 2020.