Amanda Capital - Company Announcement

AMANDA CAPITAL TO REPURCHASE ITS OWN SHARES

AMANDA CAPITAL PLC		STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE                                     
August 18, 2010 


AMANDA CAPITAL TO REPURCHASE ITS OWN SHARES                                     


Amanda Capital Plc's Board of Directors has today decided, on basis of the      
authorisation granted by the Annual General Meeting, held on April 14 2010, to  
repurchase Amanda's shares. According to the authorisation the company may      
acquire shares for the purposes of developing the structure of the company's    
equity, annulling them, using the shares according the personnel incentive plans
or for financing the acquisition of business assets, or in any other case where 
the Board of Directors considers that this would be a beneficial way to use     
liquid assets. The authorisation also covers the transfer of shares acquired by 
the company and their use for the purposes specified above, the manner and price
subject to separate decision by the Board of Directors.                         

The share repurchases will start at the earliest on August 25, 2010. The shares 
will be acquired through public trading on the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki at  
the market price prevailing at the time of repurchase. According to the decision
by the Annual General Meeting the company may acquire maximum of 2 200 000 own  
shares.                                                                         



AMANDA CAPITAL PLC                                                              

BOARD OF DIRECTORS                                                              


Additional Information: CEO 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 offers asset management, investment advice, administrative and     
reporting services to 13 portfolios. Investments from these portfolios has been 
made to over 190 private equity funds in Europe, the USA, Asian Russia totalling
original commitments of EUR 2.6 billion.