The subscription period in Peptonic’s rights issue of units starts today

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Today, 28 May, 2024, the subscription period begins in PEPTONIC medical AB (publ) ("Peptonic” or the "Company") rights issue of units consisting of shares and warrants (the "Rights Issue"), which the board of directors resolved on 16 April 2024 and was approved at the annual general meeting on 21 May, 2024. The subscription period in the Rights Issue runs from and including 28 May, up to and including 12 June, 2024. However, note that nominees may have an earlier deadline for subscription in the Rights Issue.

Preliminary timetable for the Rights Issue

• May 24, 2024: Record date for obtaining unit rights. Shareholders who were registered in the share register kept by Euroclear Sweden AB on this day, received unit rights for participation in the Rights Issue
• May 28 – June 12, 2024: Subscription period for the Rights Issue
• May 28 – June 7, 2024: Trading with unit rights (UR) on Spotlight Stock Market
• May 28 – week 26, 2024: Trading with paid subscribed units (BTU) on Spotlight Stock Market
• June 14, 2024: Estimated date for publication of the outcome in the Rights Issue

Subscription with preferential rights

The shareholders who, on the record date of 24 May, 2024, were registered in the share register maintained by Euroclear Sweden AB ("Euroclear") and on behalf of the Company, directly registered shareholders, receive a pre-printed issue report with attached payment advice from Euroclear. In the event that a different number of unit rights than those stated in the preprinted issue report are used for subscription the special application form which is available on the Company's website www.peptonicmedical.se/foretradesemission-2024/ shall be used as a basis for subscription through cash payment.

Shareholders whose holdings of shares in the Company were nominee-registered on the record date do not receive an issue report or a special application form from Euroclear. Subscription and payment must then instead take place in accordance with instructions from the respective nominee.

Subscription without preferential rights

Notification of subscription without preferential rights by a nominee is made in accordance with instructions from the respective nominee. For subscription through an endowment insurance or an investment savings account, please contact your nominee.

Application for subscription without preferential rights in other respects is done by electronic subscription with Bank ID on Mangold's website www.emission.mangold.se.

Advisers

Mangold Fondkommission AB is financial adviser and Eversheds Sutherland Advokatbyrå AB is legal adviser to Peptonic in connection with the Rights Issue.

For more information contact:

Anna Linton, CEO Peptonic Medical AB

Email: [email protected]

Phone:  +46 70-244 92 07

About Peptonic medical AB                                                                                                  

Peptonic medical AB (publ) is an innovative Swedish biomedical company engaged in the development and sales of clinically proven self-care treatments and self-diagnostic rapid tests in intimate women's health. The portfolio is sold under the brands VagiVital and Vernivia.

The company continuously aims to broaden its product portfolio through acquisitions and the development of innovative and competitive products in-house. The company's mousse-based drug delivery technology, Venerol, and the gel base in VagiVital create favorable conditions for expanding the portfolio. Central to the growth strategy is the geographic expansion of VagiVital and Vernivia through local partners.

The company is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and has subsidiaries Common Sense Marketing Inc in the USA and Peptonic Medical Ltd in Israel. Peptonic Medical was founded in 2009, and the company's shares have been listed on the Spotlight Stock Market since 2014.

Further information regarding the company is available at www.peptonicmedical.se/en/.

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