Impact Coatings Raises Approximately SEK 148.2 Million in the Rights Issue

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This press release is prepared on the basis that any offer of Securities in the United Kingdom or any Member State of the EEA which has implemented the Prospectus Regulation (each, a “Relevant Member State”), or the UK Prospectus Regulation, will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Regulation, from the requirement to publish a prospectus for offers of Securities. Accordingly, any person in the United Kingdom or that Relevant Member State, which are the subject of the offer and participates in in the Rights Issue, may only do so in circumstances in which no obligation arises for Impact Coatings or any other third party to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Regulation or UK Prospectus Regulation or supplement a prospectus pursuant to Article 23 of the Prospectus Regulation or UK Prospectus Regulation, in each case, in relation to such offer. Neither Impact Coatings nor Pareto Securities AB have authorised, nor do they authorise, the making of any offer of the Securities through any financial intermediary, other than that Pareto Securities AB and other securities institutions with requisite licenses will provide brokerage services in connection with the purchase and sale of subscription rights and paid subscribed shares. Neither Impact Coatings nor Pareto Securities AB have authorised, nor do they authorise, the making of any offer of Securities in circumstances in which an obligation arises for Impact Coatings or any other third party to publish or supplement a prospectus for such offer.

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