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2010-01-08 09:35:12 CET 2010-01-08 09:36:11 CET REGULATED INFORMATION Amanda Capital - Company AnnouncementSEVERAL EXITS IN AMANDA CAPITALS PRIVATE EQUITY POTRFOLIOAMANDA CAPITAL PLC STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT January 8, 2010 SEVERAL EXITS IN AMANDA CAPITALS PRIVATE EQUITY POTRFOLIO There have been several exits in Amanda's portfolio. The exits together generate a cash flow of over one million euros for Amanda. Balderton I -private equity fund has sold its share in ScanSafe to Cisco Systems. ScanSafe is the pioneer and market leader of SaaS Web security. In addition the fund has sold a part of its shares in Yoox S.p.A´s IPO. Yoox is a online fashion retailer and is active in 57 countries. The both exits were profitable and Amanda has received the proceeds in the first quarter of 2010. Montagu Private Equity III -private equity fund agreed terms for the sale of British Car Auctions to Calyton, Bubilier & Rice. The company is Europe's leading vehicle remarketing business. The exit is profitable and the proceeds to Amanda will be expected in the first half of 2010. Altas VI -private equity fund has sold its share in Novexel to AstraZeneca. Novexel is focused on the discovery and development of antibiotics designed to overcome the global problem of microbial drug resistance. The exit is profitable and the proceeds to Amanda will be expected in the first half of 2010. Finnventure V -private equity fund has agreed to sell its share in Pretax. Pretax is the leading Nordic financial management and payroll processing services company. The exit is profitable and the proceeds to Amanda will be expected in the first half of 2010. AMANDA CAPITAL PLC Petter Hoffström CFO Additional Information: CFO Petter Hoffström, tel. +358 9 6829 6012 Distribution: OMX Nordic Exchange in Helsinki, www.amandacapital.fi The Amanda Group is a private equity management company. Its parent company is the first publicly listed private equity fund of funds in Scandinavia. Amanda has investments in 24 private equity funds and in four funds of funds under Amanda's own management. Amanda Group is one of Finland's largest management companies of private equity fund investments. It manages several private equity fund portfolios under consultancy agreements and six private equity funds of funds with several domestic and international institutions as investors. Amanda Group currently has EUR 2.5 billion of assets under management (original investment commitments) with which it has made investments in more than 100 private equity funds in Europe, the US, Asia, and Russia. |
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