DGAP Voting Rights Announcement: AKASOL AG 
AKASOL AG: Release according to Article 40, Section 1 of the WpHG [the 
German Securities Trading Act] with the objective of Europe-wide 
distribution 
 
2021-01-07 / 16:22 
Dissemination of a Voting Rights Announcement transmitted by DGAP - a 
service of EQS Group AG. 
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. 
 
*Notification of Major Holdings* 
 
*1. Details of issuer* 
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|Name:                         |AKASOL AG           | 
+------------------------------+--------------------+ 
|Street:                       |Kleyerstraße 20| 
+------------------------------+--------------------+ 
|Postal code:                  |64295               | 
+------------------------------+--------------------+ 
|City:                         |Darmstadt           | 
|                              |Germany             | 
+------------------------------+--------------------+ 
|Legal Entity Identifier (LEI):|529900ZMVBM4A9UBTH42| 
+------------------------------+--------------------+ 
*2. Reason for notification* 
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| |Acquisition/disposal of shares with voting rights           | 
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| |Acquisition/disposal of instruments                         | 
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| |Change of breakdown of voting rights                        | 
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|X|Other reason:                                               | 
| |Notification is triggered due to the non application of the | 
| |Trading Book Exemption which is available under Sect. 36    | 
| |Para. 1 WpHG                                                | 
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*3. Details of person subject to the notification obligation* 
+--------------------------------------------------------------+ 
|Legal entity: Morgan Stanley                                  | 
|City of registered office, country: Wilmington, Delaware,     | 
|United States of America (USA)                                | 
+--------------------------------------------------------------+ 
*4. Names of shareholder(s)* 
holding directly 3% or more voting rights, if different from 3. 
 
+---------------------------------------+ 
|Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc | 
+---------------------------------------+ 
*5. Date on which threshold was crossed or reached:* 
+-----------+ 
|01 Jan 2021| 
+-----------+ 
*6. Total positions* 
+--------------+-----------+------------+----------+-----------+ 
|              |% of voting| % of voting|  Total of|      Total| 
|              |     rights|      rights| both in %|  number of| 
|              |attached to|     through|   (7.a. +|     voting| 
|              |     shares| instruments|     7.b.)|     rights| 
|              |  (total of|   (total of|          |pursuant to| 
|              |      7.a.)|     7.b.1 +|          |    Sec. 41| 
|              |           |      7.b.2)|          |       WpHG| 
+--------------+-----------+------------+----------+-----------+ 
|New           |     4.33 %|      0.01 %|    4.34 %|  6,061,856| 
+--------------+-----------+------------+----------+-----------+ 
|Previous      |     0.00 %|      0.13 %|    0.13 %|          /| 
|notification  |           |            |          |           | 
+--------------+-----------+------------+----------+-----------+ 
*7. Details on total positions* 
*a. Voting rights attached to shares (Sec. 33, 34 WpHG)* 
+------------+-----------+------------+-----------+------------+ 
|ISIN        |        Absolute        |          In %          | 
+------------+-----------+------------+-----------+------------+ 
|            |     Direct|    Indirect|     Direct|    Indirect| 
|            |   (Sec. 33|    (Sec. 34|   (Sec. 33|    (Sec. 34| 
|            |      WpHG)|       WpHG)|      WpHG)|       WpHG)| 
+------------+-----------+------------+-----------+------------+ 
|DE000A2JNWZ9|          0|     262,630|     0.00 %|      4.33 %| 
+------------+-----------+------------+-----------+------------+ 
|*Total*     |        262,630         |         4.33 %         | 
+------------+-----------+------------+-----------+------------+ 
*b.1. Instruments according to Sec. 38 (1) no. 1 WpHG* 
+----------+--------------+-------------+----------+-----------+ 
|Type of   |Expiration or |Exercise or  |    Voting|     Voting| 
|instrument|maturity date |conversion   |    rights|rights in %| 
|          |              |period       |  absolute|           | 
+----------+--------------+-------------+----------+-----------+ 
|Right of  |at any time   |at any time  |       394|     0.01 %| 
|recall    |              |             |          |           | 
|over      |              |             |          |           | 
|securities|              |             |          |           | 
|lending   |              |             |          |           | 
|agreements|              |             |          |           | 
+----------+--------------+-------------+----------+-----------+ 
|          |              |*Total*      |       394|     0.01 %| 
+----------+--------------+-------------+----------+-----------+ 
*b.2. Instruments according to Sec. 38 (1) no. 2 WpHG* 
+-------+----------+---------+-------+-------+-----------------+ 
|Type of|Expiration|Exercise |Cash or| Voting| Voting rights in| 
|instrum|or        |or       |physica| rights|                %| 
|ent    |maturity  |conversio|l      |absolut|                 | 
|       |date      |n period |settlem|      e|                 | 
|       |          |         |ent    |       |                 | 
+-------+----------+---------+-------+-------+-----------------+ 
|Retail |17.09.2068|at any   |Cash   |      2|              0 %| 
|Structu|          |time     |       |       |                 | 
|red    |          |         |       |       |                 | 
|Product|          |         |       |       |                 | 
+-------+----------+---------+-------+-------+-----------------+ 
|       |          |         |*Total*|      2| 0.000032993195 %| 
+-------+----------+---------+-------+-------+-----------------+ 
*8. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification 
obligation* 
 
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| |Person subject to the notification obligation is not        | 
| |controlled nor does it control any other undertaking(s) that| 
| |directly or indirectly hold(s) an interest in the           | 
| |(underlying) issuer (1.).                                   | 
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|X|Full chain of controlled undertakings starting with the     | 
| |ultimate controlling natural person or legal entity:        | 
+-+------------------------------------------------------------+ 
 
+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ 
|Name             |   % of voting| % of voting|   Total of both| 
|                 | rights (if at|      rights| (if at least 5%| 
|                 |   least 3% or|     through|        or more)| 
|                 |         more)| instruments|                | 
|                 |              |(if at least|                | 
|                 |              | 5% or more)|                | 
+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ 
|Morgan Stanley   |             %|           %|               %| 
+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ 
|Morgan Stanley   |             %|           %|               %| 
|Capital          |              |            |                | 
|Management, LLC  |              |            |                | 
+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ 
|Morgan Stanley   |             %|           %|               %| 
|Domestic         |              |            |                | 
|Holdings, Inc.   |              |            |                | 
+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ 
|Morgan Stanley & |             %|           %|               %| 
|Co. LLC          |              |            |                | 
+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ 
|-                |             %|           %|               %| 
+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ 
|Morgan Stanley   |             %|           %|               %| 
+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ 
|Morgan Stanley   |             %|           %|               %| 
|International    |              |            |                | 
|Holdings Inc.    |              |            |                | 
+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ 
|Morgan Stanley   |             %|           %|               %| 
|International    |              |            |                | 
|Limited          |              |            |                | 
+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ 
|Morgan Stanley   |             %|           %|               %| 
|Investments (UK) |              |            |                | 
+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ 
|Morgan Stanley & |        4.32 %|           %|               %| 
|Co. International|              |            |                | 
|plc              |              |            |                | 
+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ 
*9. In case of proxy voting according to Sec. 34 para. 3 WpHG* 
(only in case of attribution of voting rights in accordance with Sec. 34 
para. 1 sent. 1 No. 6 WpHG) 
 
Date of general meeting: 
Holding total positions after general meeting (6.) after annual general 
meeting: 
 
+------------------------+-----------------------+-------------+ 
|    Proportion of voting|          Proportion of|Total of both| 
|                  rights|            instruments|             | 

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