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On 13 March 2024, Oncopeptides AB (publ) (“Oncopeptides” or the “Company”) announced that the Board of Directors has decided to carry out a fully guaranteed rights issue of approximately SEK 314 million before deduction of costs related to the rights issue (the “Rights Issue”).

The prospectus relating to the Rights Issue has today, 17 April 2024, been approved and registered by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority and is available on Oncopeptides’ website, https://oncopeptides.com/en/investors/share-issues/rights-issue-may-2024/ and on Carnegie Investment Bank AB (publ)’s website, www.carnegie.se. The prospectus will also be made available on the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority’s website, www.fi.se.
 
Shareholders with nominee registered holdings are referred to their respective nominees for specific information and instructions. Shareholders with directly registered holdings receive information by mail and can find subscription forms with and without subscription rights on Oncopeptides’ and Carnegie's websites.
 
The subscription period starts on 19 April 2024, and runs up until 3 May 2024. The complete timetable for the rights issue is available in the prospectus and on Oncopeptides’ website, https://oncopeptides.com/en/investors/share-issues/rights-issue-may-2024/.
 
The Company has been informed that three investors have undertaken to acquire and subscribe for all subscription rights that Industrifonden is entitled to receive per its existing holding, corresponding to 8,285,258 subscription rights.

Advisors
Carnegie Investment Bank AB (publ), DNB Markets, a part of DNB Bank ASA, Sweden Branch and Zonda Partners act as Joint Bookrunners in connection with the Rights Issue. Advokatfirman Vinge KB is legal adviser to the Company and Baker McKenzie is legal adviser to the Joint Bookrunners in connection with the Rights Issue.

For more information, please contact:
David Augustsson, Director of IR and Communications, Oncopeptides AB (publ)
E-mail: david.augustsson@oncopeptides.com
Cell phone: +46 76 229 38 68

About Oncopeptides
Oncopeptides is a biotech company focusing on research, development and commercialization of targeted therapies for difficult-to-treat cancers. The company uses its proprietary Peptide Drug Candidate platform (PDC) to develop compounds that rapidly and selectively deliver cytotoxic agents into cancer cells. 

Pepaxti® (melphalan flufenamide, also called melflufen) has been granted Marketing Authorization, in the European Union, the EEA-countries Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway, as well as in the UK. Pepaxti is indicated in combination with dexamethasone for the treatment of adult patients with multiple myeloma who have received at least three prior lines of therapies, whose disease is refractory to at least one proteasome inhibitor, one immunomodulatory agent, and one anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody, and who have demonstrated disease progression on or after the last therapy. For patients with a prior autologous stem cell transplantation, the time to progression should be at least 3 years from transplantation.

Oncopeptides is developing several new compounds based on its proprietary technology platforms and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm with the ticker ONCO. For more information see: www.oncopeptides.com

Important Information
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This press release is not a prospectus according to the definition in Regulation (EU) 2017/2019 (the “Prospectus Regulation”) and has not been approved by any regulatory authority in any jurisdiction. A prospectus will be prepared by the Company and published on the Company’s website after the prospectus has been reviewed and approved by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority.
 
This press release does not constitute an offer or solicitation to buy or subscribe for securities in the United States. The securities mentioned herein may not be sold in the United States without registration, or without an exemption from registration, under the U.S. Securities Act from 1933 (“Securities Act”), and may not be offered or sold within the United States without being registered, covered by an exemption from, or part of a transaction that is not subject to the registration requirements according to the Securities Act. There is no intention to register any securities mentioned herein in the United States or to issue a public offering of such securities in the United States. The information in this press release may not be released, published, copied, reproduced or distributed, directly or indirectly, wholly or in part, in or to Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the United States or any other jurisdiction where the release, publication or distribution of this information would violate current rules or where such an action is subject to legal restrictions or would require additional registration or other measures beyond those that follow from Swedish law. Actions in contravention of this instruction may constitute a violation of applicable securities legislation.
 
Forward-looking statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements related to the Company's intentions, estimates or expectations with regard to the Company's future results, financial position, liquidity, development, outlook, estimated growth, strategies and opportunities as well as the markets in which the Company is active. Forward-looking statements are statements that do not refer to historical facts and can be identified by the use of terms such as “believes”, “expects”, “anticipates”, “intends”, “estimates”, “will”, “may”, “implies”, “should”, “could” and, in each case, their negative, or comparable terminology. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based on various assumptions, which in several cases are based on further assumptions. Although the Company believes that the assumptions reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, there is no guarantee that they will occur or that they are correct. Since these assumptions are based on assumptions or estimates and involve risks and uncertainties, actual results or outcomes, for many different reasons, may differ materially from those what is stated in the forward-looking statements. Due to such risks, uncertainties, eventualities and other significant factors, actual events may differ materially from the expectations that expressly or implicitly are contained in this press release through the forward-looking statements. The Company does not guarantee that the assumptions which serve as a basis for the forward-looking statements in this press release are correct, and each reader of the press release should not rely on the forward-looking statements in this press release. The information, opinions and forward-looking statements that expressly or implicitly are stated herein are provided only as of the date of this press release and may change. Neither the Company nor any other party will review, update, confirm or publicly announce any revision of any forward-looking statement to reflect events that occur or circumstances that arise with respect to the contents of this press release, beyond what is required by law or Nasdaq Stockholm Rulebook.
 
Potential investors should not put undue trust in the forward-looking statements herein, and potential investors are strongly recommended to read the sections in the prospectus that include a more detailed description of the factors that can affect the Company’s business and its associated market.

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Oncopeptides publishes prospectus relating to the rights issue

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