BerGenBio ASA - Successfully Completed Private Placement

 

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Bergen, 13 June 2019: Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement by
BerGenBio ASA (OSE:BGBIO) ("BerGenBio" or the "Company") on 13 June 2019
regarding a contemplated private placement of new shares in the Company (the
"Private Placement").

The Company is pleased to announce that the Private Placement has been
successfully completed, raising gross proceeds of NOK 74,184,444 through the
allocation of 5,495,144 new shares (the "New Shares") at a subscription price of
NOK 13.50 per share. The Private Placement, that was substantially over
subscribed, took place through an accelerated book building process after close
of market on 13 June 2019.

Arctic Securities AS and Carnegie AS acted as Joint Bookrunners and H.C.
Wainwright & Co., LLC acted as Financial Advisor (together the "Managers") in
connection with the Private Placement. The Private Placement attracted strong
interest from existing shareholders and new institutional investors.

The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Private Placement to
advance the Company's clinical programs, with its lead candidate bemcentinib in
Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and lung cancer, as well as for general corporate
purposes.

The Private Placement and the issuance of the New Shares was resolved by the
Company's board of directors at a board meeting held on 13 June 2019, based on
the authorization granted to the board of directors at the Company's annual
general meeting held on 13 March 2019.

Completion of the Private Placement implies a deviation from the existing
shareholders' pre-emptive rights to subscribe for and be allocated new shares.
The board of directors of the Company has carefully considered such deviation
and has resolved that the Private Placement is in the best interests of the
Company and its shareholders. In reaching this conclusion the board of directors
has inter alia considered the implications of an underwritten rights issue given
the volatility and negative development in the Company's share price,
alternative financing sources, the dilutive effect of the share issue, the
Company´s need for additional liquidity and that the subscription price in the
Private Placement was set with a premium of 2.12% to last closing price on 13
June 2019 on Oslo Stock Exchange. Existing shareholders subscribing in the
transaction have been allocated at least their pro-rata share of the
transaction, to the extent subscribed.

Notification of allocation of the New Shares and payment instructions is
expected to be sent to the applicants through a notification from the Managers
on 14 June 2019. Settlement of the New Shares towards investors will be made on
a delivery versus payment basis on 18 June 2019 (T+2 settlement), by delivery of
existing and unencumbered shares in the Company that are already listed on the
Oslo Stock Exchange, pursuant to a share lending agreement between the Managers,
the Company and Meteva AS. The shares delivered to the subscribers will thus be
tradable from allocation. The Managers will settle the share loan with Offer
Shares upon issuance of these. Following registration of the new share capital
in the Company with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises, which is
expected to take place on or about 20 June 2019, the Company will have an issued
share capital of NOK 6,044,659 divided into 60,446,590 shares, each with a par
value of NOK 0.10.

The following primary insiders have been allocated New Shares in the Private
Placement at a subscription price of NOK 13.50 per New Share (with new holding
of shares in the Company in brackets):

Meteva AS 1,496,250 (16,458,750)

Altitude Capital AS (Grunde Eriksen) 65,000 (715,000)

Svev AS (Sveinung Hole) 44,000 (104,444)

Stener Kvinnsland 44,000 (104,444)

Gnist Holding AS (Richard Godfrey) 7,407 (167,815)

Sveinung Hole, Chairman of BerGenBio ASA, commented, "BerGenBio continues to
deliver promising data from its clinical development programme which we believe
has the potential to provide much needed additional treatment options for cancer
patients in the future. The Company has a clear strategy to progress its lead
asset, bemcentinib, in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) and Lung Cancer and
management remains focused on meeting its operational, regulatory and strategic
goals. We are grateful to existing shareholders for their continued support and
welcome a few new international specialist investors to our Company. We look
forward to providing further reports of progress in the coming months."

For further information, please contact:

Richard Godfrey, CEO

+47 917 86 304

Rune Skeie, CFO

rune.skeie@bergenbio.com

+47 917 86 513

About BerGenBio ASA:

BerGenBio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing
transformative drugs targeting AXL as a potential cornerstone of therapy for
aggressive diseases, including immune-evasive, therapy resistant cancers. The
company's proprietary lead candidate, bemcentinib, is a potentially first-in
-class selective AXL inhibitor in a broad phase II oncology clinical development
programme focused on combination and single agent therapy in lung cancer and
leukaemia. A first-in-class functional blocking AXL antibody (BGB149) and an AXL
-ADC (ADCT-601) are undergoing phase I clinical testing. In parallel, BerGenBio
is developing a companion diagnostic test to identify those patient populations
most likely to benefit from bemcentinib: this is expected to facilitate more
efficient registration trials supporting a precision medicine-based
commercialisation strategy.

BerGenBio is based in Bergen, Norway with a subsidiary in Oxford, UK. The
company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (ticker: BGBIO). www.bergenbio.com

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