5.3.2021 06:00:00 CET | Nordic Unmanned | Additional regulated information
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UNLAWFUL.

 

Sandnes, 5th of March 2021 - Reference is made to the stock exchange
announcement published 4 March 2021 by Nordic Unmanned AS (the "Company"),
announcing a contemplated private placement of new shares (the "Offer Shares")
in the Company, with gross proceeds of up to NOK 100 million (the "Private
Placement").

 

Nordic Unmanned is pleased to announce that the Private Placement has been
successfully completed, through an allocation of 2,531,645 new shares in the
Company at a price of NOK 39.50 per share. The gross proceeds of the Private
Placing is NOK 100 million. The Private Placement was substantially
oversubscribed at the NOK 39.50 price point.

 

"I am pleased with the strong support from our investors, which gives us the
opportunity to move ahead with our plan for value accretive acquisitions,
supplementing our organic growth pathway. The drone industry is still at a
nascent stage with huge growth opportunities ahead. We have mapped the industry
in Europe, identifying a number of potential acquisition targets. Being the
first publicly listed drone operator in Europe gives Nordic Unmanned a
tremendous opportunity to take an active role in the structural development of
the industry going forward," said Knut Roar Wiig, CEO and co-founder of Nordic
Unmanned.

 

Nordic Unmanned was publicly listed on Euronext Growth in Oslo in December 2020,
following a private placement of NOK 99 million, with the main purpose of
expanding the fleet of unmanned aircrafts. Since then, one CAMCOPTER S-100 RPAS
system is added to the fleet, and further additions are on the way.

 

"We have a solid contract backlog and a very interesting sales pipeline, which
means that we will be able to create value by continuing to expand our fleet,"
said Knut Roar Wiig.

 

SpareBank 1 Markets AS (the "Manager") has been retained as sole bookrunner to
advise on and carry out the Private Placement.

 

Allocation to investors and payment instructions is expected to be communicated
on or about the 5th of March 2021. The Offer Shares will be settled with
existing and unencumbered shares in the Company that are already listed on
Euronext Growth, pursuant to a share lending agreement in order to facilitate
delivery of listed shares to investors on a delivery versus payment basis. The
Offer Shares will be tradable from allocation.

 

The Manager will settle the share loan with a corresponding number of new shares
in the Company which were resolved issued by the Company's Board of Directors on
the 4th of March 2021 in accordance with the authorization granted by the
Company's extraordinary general meeting held on the 24th of November 2020.
Following registration of the share capital increase pertaining to the Offer
Shares with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises, the Company will
have a registered share capital of NOK 22,718,677 divided into 22,718,677
shares, each with a nominal value of NOK 1.00.

 

The Company will consider to carry out a subsequent offering with non-tradeable
subscription rights of up to 317,000 new shares in the Company (the "Subsequent
Offering") towards existing shareholders in the Company as of 4 March 2021 (as
registered in the Norwegian Central Securities Depositary ("VPS") as of the 8th
of March 2021), who (i) were not allocated Offer Shares in the Private
Placement, and (ii) are not resident in a jurisdiction where such offering would
be unlawful or, would (in jurisdictions other than Norway) require any
prospectus, filing, registration or similar action. Whether a Subsequent
Offering will be carried out will inter alia depend on the development of the
Company's shares price following completion of the Private Placement.

 

Important Notice

This announcement is not, and does not form a part of, any offer to sell, or a
solicitation of an offer to purchase, any securities of the Company. The
distribution of this announcement and other information may be restricted by law
in certain jurisdictions. Copies of this announcement are not being made and may
not be distributed or sent into any jurisdiction in which such distribution
would be unlawful or would require registration or other measures. Persons into
whose possession this announcement or such other information should come are
required to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions.

The securities referred to in this announcement have not been and will not be
registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities
Act"), and accordingly may not be offered or sold in the United States absent
registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of
the Securities Act and in accordance with applicable U.S. state securities laws.
The Company does not intend to register any part of the offering or their
securities in the United States or to conduct a public offering of securities in
the United States. Any sale in the United States of the securities mentioned in
this announcement will be made solely to "qualified institutional buyers" as
defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

 

In any EEA Member State, this communication is only addressed to and is only
directed at qualified investors in that EEA Member State within the meaning of
the Prospectus Regulation, i.e., only to investors who can receive the offer
without an approved prospectus in such EEA Member State. The expression
"Prospectus Regulation" means Regulation 2017/1129 as amended together with any
applicable implementing measures in any EEA Member State.

 

This communication is only being distributed to and is only directed at persons
in the United Kingdom 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 for
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.

 

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", "expect", "anticipate",
"strategy", "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, the 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 the
Company's control.

 

Actual events may differ significantly from any anticipated development due to a
number of factors, including without limitation, changes in investment levels
and need for the Company's services, changes in the general economic, political
and market conditions in the markets in which the Company operates, the
Company's ability to attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel, changes
in the Company's ability to engage in commercially acceptable acquisitions and
strategic investments, and changes in laws and regulation and the potential
impact of legal proceedings and actions. 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
forward-looking statements. The Company does not provide any guarantees that the
assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements in this announcement are
free from errors nor does it accept any responsibility for the future accuracy
of the opinions expressed in this announcement or any obligation to update or
revise the statements in this announcement to reflect subsequent events. You
should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements in this
announcement.

 

The information, opinions and forward-looking statements contained in this
announcement speak only as at its date and are subject to change without notice.
The Company does not undertake any obligation to review, update, confirm, or to
release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect
events that occur or circumstances that arise in relation to the content of this
announcement. Neither the Manager nor any of its affiliates make any
representation as to the accuracy or completeness of this announcement and none
of them accept any responsibility for the contents of this announcement or any
matters referred to herein.

DISCLAIMER

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section
5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.

CONTACTS

 * Knut Roar Wiig, CEO, +47 92 66 66 59, krw@nordicunmanned.com 

ABOUT NORDIC UNMANNED

Nordic Unmanned delivers comprehensive data solutions through industry leading
expertise, to assist both public and private customers in the transition to
unmanned technology. The focus is to support demanding clients by collecting
time-critical data with the use of unmanned technology.

Founded in 2014, the company has offices in Sandnes, Oslo, and Frankfurt, and
has quickly become one of Europe's leading providers of unmanned systems and
services, with operations across the continent.The company is ISO 9001-2015
certified by DNV-GL as a UAV and sensor operator.

For more information visit nordicunmanned.com - https://nordicunmanned.com/

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