Aker Carbon Capture ASA: Contemplated Private Placement

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Aker Carbon Capture ASA (the "Company") has engaged Carnegie AS, Morgan Stanley
& Co. International plc and Skandinaviska Enskilda banken AB (publ) as joint
bookrunners and managers (the "Managers") to advise on and effect a contemplated
private placement of new ordinary shares in the Company (the "Offer Shares"),
raising gross proceeds of approximately NOK 700 million (the "Private
Placement"). The subscription price per New Share in the Private Placement (the
"Subscription Price") will be set by the Company's board of directors (the
"Board") on the basis of an accelerated book-building process conducted by the
Managers.

Aker Horizons Holding AS (the Company's largest shareholder with an ownership of
51.0%) has pre-subscribed for and will be allocated Offer Shares for an amount
of NOK 200 million at the Subscription Price.

The net proceeds from the Private Placement will be used for: 

o	Realization and commercialization of the Carbon Capture as a Service business
model - to accelerate the CCS 
        market and becoming the first mover in offering a full value chain CCS
service
o	Strengthening investments in technology and product development to be on the
technological forefront to 
        take advantage of the strong growth in prioritized markets
o	Realization of investment programs e.g. product modularization and
digitalization to drive down costs 
o	Continue to develop the organization and internationalize the Company
o	Strengthening the balance sheet to ensure financial capacity and flexibility
to pursue growth opportunities
o	Working capital as well as for general corporate purposes.

The application period in the Private Placement will commence today, 12 August
2021 at 16:30 CEST and close on 13 August 2021 at 08:00 CEST. The Managers and
the Company may, however, at any time resolve to close or extend the application
period on short or without notice. If the application period is shortened or
extended, any other dates referred to herein may be amended accordingly.

The Private Placement will be directed towards selected Norwegian and
international investors (a) outside the United States in reliance on Regulation
S under the U.S, Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act"),
and (b) to investors in the United States who are "qualified institutional
buyers" ("QIBs") as defined in Rule 144A under the U.S. Securities Act, in each
case subject to an exemption being available from prospectus requirements and
any other filing or registration requirements in the applicable jurisdictions
and subject to other selling restrictions. The minimum application and
allocation amount has been set to the NOK equivalent of EUR 100,000 per
investor. The Company may, however, at its sole discretion, allocate an amount
below EUR 100,000 to the extent applicable exemptions from the prospectus
requirements pursuant to the Norwegian Securities Trading Act and ancillary
regulations are available. Further selling restrictions and transaction terms
will apply.

Allocation of Offer Shares will be determined at the end of the application
period by the Board in consultation with the Managers, at its sole discretion.
The Company may focus on allocation criteria such as (but not limited to)
existing ownership in the Company, timeliness of the application, price
leadership, relative order size, sector knowledge, investment history, perceived
investor quality and investment horizon. 

Completion of the Private Placement is subject to (i) all necessary corporate
resolutions being validly made by the Company, including without limitation, the
Board resolving to consummate the Private Placement and issue the Offer Shares
pursuant to a board authorisation granted by the Company's annual general
meeting on 20 April 2021 2021 and registered in the Norwegian Register of
Business Enterprises on 9 June 2021, pursuant to which the Board may also waive
the pre-emption rights of existing shareholders, if considered to be necessary
in the interest of time and to achieve a successful completion of the Private
Placement, and (ii) the Share Lending Agreement not being terminated prior to
allocation (jointly, the "Conditions"). There can be no assurance that these
Conditions will be satisfied. If the Conditions are not satisfied, the offering
may be revoked or suspended without any compensation to applicants.

Subject to satisfaction of the Conditions, settlement is expected to take place
on or about 17 August 2021 on a delivery versus payment basis. Delivery of the
Offer Shares allocated in the Private Placement will, in order to facilitate DVP
settlement, be made by delivery of existing and unencumbered shares in the
Company already admitted to trading on Oslo Børs, pursuant to a share lending
agreement (the "Share Lending Agreement") to be entered into between the
Company, the Managers and Aker Horizons Holding AS. The Managers will settle the
share loan with new shares to be issued by the Company. 

The Company reserves the right, at any time and for any reason, to cancel,
and/or modify the terms of, the Private Placement prior to completion. Neither
the Company nor the Managers will be liable for any losses incurred by
applicants if the Private Placement is cancelled, irrespective of the reason for
such cancellation.

The Board has considered the structure of the contemplated offering of new
shares in light of the equal treatment obligations under the Norwegian Public
Limited Companies Act, the Norwegian Securities Trading Act and the rules on
equal treatment under Oslo Rule Book II for companies listed on the Oslo Stock
Exchange and the Oslo Stock Exchange's Guidelines on the rule of equal
treatment. The Company is of the view that is in the common interest of the
Company and its shareholders to raise equity through a private placement. By
structuring the equity raise as a private placement, the Company is expected to
be in a position to raise equity efficiently, with a lower discount to the
current trading price, at a lower cost and with a significantly lower risk
compared to a rights issue. In the assessment it has also been taken into
consideration that the Private Placement has been structured as a publicly
announced accelerated bookbuilding process. Accordingly, the existing
shareholders preferential rights to subscribe for new shares in the Private
Placement will be deviated from. As the Private Placement is structured to
ensure that a market based subscription price is achieved, it is currently not
planned to conduct a subsequent share issue directed towards shareholders not
participating in the Private Placement.

The Company has engaged Carnegie AS, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc and
Skandinaviska Enskilda banken AB (publ) as joint bookrunners and managers in the
Private Placement. Advokatfirmaet BAHR AS is acting as legal advisor to the
Company.

ENDS

Media contact:
Ivar Simensen, mob: [phone]
email: [e-mail] 

Investor contact:
Christian Yggeseth, mob: [phone]
email: [e-mail]

David Phillips, mob: [phone]
email: [e-mail]    


Aker Carbon Capture is a pure-play carbon capture company with solutions,
services and technologies serving a range of industries with carbon emissions,
including the cement, bio and waste-to-energy, gas-to-power and blue hydrogen
segments. Aker Carbon Capture's proprietary, carbon-capture technology offers a
unique, environmentally friendly solution for removing CO2 emissions.


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The information contained in this announcement 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,
fairness or completeness. None of the Managers or any of their respective
affiliates or any of their respective directors, officers, employees, advisors
or agents accepts any responsibility or liability whatsoever for, or makes any
representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the truth, accuracy or
completeness of the information in this announcement (or whether any information
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any loss howsoever arising from any use of this announcement or its contents or
otherwise arising in connection therewith. This announcement has been prepared
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publication, distribution or release, in whole or in part, directly or
indirectly, in or into or from the United States (including its territories and
possessions, any State of the United States and the District of Columbia),
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restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws of any such
jurisdiction.
This document is not an offer for sale of securities in the United States. The
securities referred to in this announcement have not been and will not be
registered under the U.S. Securities Act, and may not be offered or sold in the
United States absent registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission or an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the
registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and in accordance with
applicable U.S. state securities laws. The Company does not intend to register
any securities referred to herein in the United States or to conduct a public
offering of securities in the United States. 
Any offering of the securities referred to in this announcement will be made by
means of a set of subscription materials provided to potential investors.
Investors should not subscribe for any securities referred to in this
announcement except on the basis of information contained in the aforementioned
subscription material. 
In any EEA Member State, this communication is only addressed to and is only
directed at qualified investors in that Member State within the meaning of the
EU Prospectus Regulation, i.e., only to investors who can receive the offer
without an approved prospectus in such EEA Member State. The expression "EU
Prospectus Regulation" means Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 (together with any applicable
implementing measures in any Member State). 
This communication is only being distributed to and is only directed at persons
in the United Kingdom that are "qualified investors" within the meaning of the
EU Prospectus Regulation as it forms part of English law by virtue of the
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and that are (i) investment professionals
falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
(Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the "Order") or (ii) high net
worth entities, and other persons to whom this announcement may lawfully be
communicated, falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all such
persons together being referred to as "relevant persons"). This communication
must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not relevant persons. Any
investment or investment activity to which this communication relates is
available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant
persons. Persons distributing this communication must satisfy themselves that it
is lawful to do so. 
This announcement is made by, and is the responsibility of, the Company. The
Managers and their affiliates are acting exclusively for the Company and no-one
else in connection with the Private Placement. They will not regard any other
person as their respective clients in relation to the Private Placement and will
not be responsible to anyone other than the Company, for providing the
protections afforded to their respective clients, nor for providing advice in
relation to the Private Placement, the contents of this announcement or any
transaction, arrangement or other matter referred to herein. 
In connection with the Private Placement, the Managers and any of their
affiliates, acting as investors for their own accounts, may subscribe for or
purchase shares and in that capacity may retain, purchase, sell, offer to sell
or otherwise deal for their own accounts in such shares and other securities of
the Company or related investments in connection with the Private Placement or
otherwise. Accordingly, references in any subscription materials to the shares
being issued, offered, subscribed, acquired, placed or otherwise dealt in should
be read as including any issue or offer to, or subscription, acquisition,
placing or dealing by, such Managers and any of their affiliates acting as
investors for their own accounts. The Managers do not intend to disclose the
extent of any such investment or transactions otherwise than in accordance with
any legal or regulatory obligations to do so.
Matters discussed in this announcement may constitute forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical
facts and may be identified by words such as "believe", "aims", "expect",
"anticipate", "intends", "estimate", "will", "may", "continue", "should" and
similar expressions. The forward-looking statements in this release are based
upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further
assumptions. Although the Company believes that these assumptions were
reasonable when made, these assumptions are inherently subject to significant
known and unknown risks, uncertainties, contingencies, and other important
factors which are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond its control.
Such risks, uncertainties, contingencies, and other important factors could
cause actual events to differ materially from the expectations expressed or
implied in this release by such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements speak only as of the date they are made and cannot be relied upon as
a guide to future performance. The Company, each of the Managers and their
respective affiliates expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to
update, review or revise any forward-looking statement contained in this
announcement whether as a result of new information, future developments or
otherwise. The information, opinions and forward-looking statements contained in
this announcement speak only as at its date and are subject to change without
notice.
This information is considered to be inside information pursuant to the EU
Market Abuse Regulation, and is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant
to Section 5-12 the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.

This stock exchange announcement was published by Ivar Simense, Aker Horizons
ASA, on 12 August 2021 at 16:30 (CEST).

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