The board of directors of Emplicure AB (publ) ("Emplicure" or the "Company") recommends the shareholders of Emplicure not to accept the mandatory takeover offer of SEK 0.50 per share made by TomEQT Private AB ("TomEQT Private") on May 29, 2023.

TomEQT Private AB ("TomEQT Private") has today announced a mandatory takeover offer in cash for the shares in Emplicure AB (publ) ("Emplicure" or the "Company") at a price of SEK 0.50 per share (the "Offer"). The Offer is made in accordance with the rules regarding mandatory takeover offers since TomEQT Private's shareholding in Emplicure, following the directed issue of shares resolved by the board of directors of Emplicure on 24 May 2023, now amounts to approximately 50.6 percent of the total number of shares and votes in Emplicure.

The board of directors of Emplicure AB (publ) ("Emplicure" or the "Company") has today, as authorised by the general meeting on 2 May 2023, resolved on a directed issue of 50,000,000 new shares through which the Company receives 25,000,000 SEK before issue costs (the "Directed Issue"). The right to subscribe for shares in the Directed Issue shall, with deviation from the shareholders pre-emption rights, belong to TomEQT Private AB (the "Investor"). The subscription price in the Directed Issue is 0.50 SEK per share and has been determined after negotiations with the Investor. The reason for the deviation from the shareholders' pre-emption rights is that the board of directors, in an overall assessment and after careful consideration, considers that a directed issue to the Investor is the preferred alternative to meet the Company's capital needs and that it is objectively in the interest of both the Company and its shareholders to carry out the Directed Issue. The board of directors has carefully considered the possibility of carrying out a rights issue to raise the required capital but deemed that it would be more time-consuming and entail significantly higher costs and an increased market risk exposure. Through the Directed Issue, the Investor will reach a shareholding of approximately 50.6 percent of the outstanding shares and votes in the Company entailing that the mandatory bid threshold will be exceeded. The Investor has notified the board of directors that the Investor intends to fulfil its mandatory bid obligation and make a public takeover offer regarding the remaining shares in the Company.

The 2022 Annual report of Emplicure AB (publ) is now available on the Company's website.

The shareholders in Emplicure AB (publ) reg. no. 556967-7189 (the "Company") are hereby given notice that the Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 13 June 2023, at 2.00 p.m. at the law firm Lindahl's premises, Vaksalagatan 10, Uppsala, Sweden. Registration starts at 1.45 p.m. and will stop when the meeting starts.

The extra general meeting in Emplicure AB (publ), corp. reg. no 556967-7189 (the "Company") was held on 2 May 2023 in Uppsala whereby the shareholders primarily resolved on the following matters.

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