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Decisions by the Tekla Corporation Annual General Meeting

Tekla Corporation Stock exchange release March 18,2009 at 5.15 p.m.

Decisions by the Tekla Corporation Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) on March 18, 2009 adopted Tekla
Corporation's financial statement as well as Tekla Group's financial
statement, and discharged the Board and the CEO from liability.

Dividend

In line with the Board's proposal the AGM approved a dividend of 0.25
euros per share be paid for the financial period 2008 for a total
dividend payout of 5,604,150 euros.

The dividend record date is March 23, 2009 and the payment date is
March 30, 2009. No dividend will be paid to the shares owned by the
company.

Board of Directors and company auditor

As regular members of the Board until the conclusion of the Annual
General Meeting 2010 were re-elected Ari Kohonen, Olli-Pekka Laine,
Heikki Marttinen, Erkki Pehu-Lehtonen and Reijo Sulonen. Timo
Keinänen was re-elected as deputy member.

Juha Kajanen is the Tekla personnel representative on the Board and
Kirsi Hakkila his personal deputy.

The AGM decided to remain the compensation to the Board the same as
in 2008: Chairman of the Board will receive 3,000 euros per month,
Deputy Chairman of the Board 2,500 euros per month and other members
of the Board 2,000 euros per month. In addition, the members' travel
expenses will be reimbursed. The members of the Board employed by
Tekla Group will not be paid any remuneration for their board work.

Ernst & Young Oy was elected as company auditor, with Erkka Talvinko,
Authorized Public Accountant, as the auditor in charge. The auditor's
remuneration will be based on invoicing.

Authorizations to the Board

The AGM gave the Board the following authorizations:

- The Board was authorized
1. to decide on the increase of the company's share capital in one or
several lots of new shares so that a maximum of 4,500,000 new shares,
corresponding to approximately 19.9% of all the shares of the
company, may be subscribed.

2. to decide upon the acquisition of the company's own shares for the
development of the company's capital structure. The maximum number of
shares to be acquired is 1,000,000.

3. to decide upon the transfer of the company's own shares. The
authorization concerns all the company's own shares acquired by the
company based on the authorizations given to the Board, in total
1,169,600 shares.

Based on the authorizations above, the new and/or acquired shares may
be used as means of payment at the discretion of the Board regarding
object and extent when the company acquires assets related to its
business operations or renders its own shares as payment in potential
acquisitions or to be used as part of the company's remuneration and
incentive system.

All the above mentioned authorizations are valid until the next
Annual General Meeting, but not longer than until April 30, 2010.

Formative meeting of the Board

In the formative meeting that was held after the AGM, the Board of
Directors elected Heikki Marttinen to continue as Chairman, and
Olli-Pekka Laine to continue as Deputy Chairman.

TEKLA CORPORATION
Board of Directors

For further information, please contact:
Ari Kohonen, President and CEO, phone 358 30 661 1468, ari.kohonen @
tekla.com

DISTRIBUTION: NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, Main Media

Tekla is an international software product company whose model-based
software solutions make customers' core processes more effective in
building and construction, energy distribution, infrastructure
management and water supply. Tekla has customers in more than 80
countries. Tekla Group's net sales for 2008 were nearly 60 million
euros and operating result approximately 14 million euros.
International operations accounted for more than 80% of net sales.
Tekla Group currently employs over 450 persons, of whom 40 percent
work outside Finland. Tekla was established in 1966, making it one of
the longest operating software companies in Finland. www.tekla.com