Q-Free: Acceptances received under mandatory offer to acquire all shares in Q-Free ASA

Reference is made to the mandatory offer (the “Offer”) from Rieber & Søn AS (the “Offeror”) to acquire all shares in Q-Free ASA (“Q-Free” or the “Company”) at an offer price of NOK 6.20 per share pursuant to an offer document dated 24 November 2022. On 01 December 2022, the Offeror has received acceptances under the Offer for 2198 shares.

Following these acceptances, the Offeror has received acceptances for a total of 3259 shares and votes in Q-Free. In addition, the Offeror owns a total of 56,069,283 shares in the Company. The Offeror accordingly has an aggregate holding of 56,072,542 shares and rights to shares in Q-Free, equal to approximately 50.40% of the total number of 111,244,416 issued shares in the Company.

The Offeror is a close associate of Trond Valvik, Chair of the board in Q-Free.

Please see attached notification form in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation article 19.

This notification has been submitted pursuant to the Securities Trading Act section 5-12.

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