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Lehto Group Plc: Significant shareholders have sold shares in Lehto Group Oyj

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Lehto Group Plc
Stock exchange release
1 June 2017 at 9:00

Lehto Group Plc: Significant shareholders have sold shares in Lehto Group Oyj

Lehto Group Plc (the "Company" or "Lehto") has been informed that shareholders
holding 69.7 per cent of the shares in the Company prior to the sale (the
"Shareholders") have sold shares in the Company in an accelerated book-building
process (the "Share Sale"), in accordance with the Company's stock exchange
release on 31 May 2017. The Shareholders sold altogether 4,971,845 shares in the
Company, corresponding to approximately 8.5 percent of all the shares and votes
in the Company. The Company's CEO Hannu Lehto sold 0.5 per cent of the Company's
shares owned by him through Lehto Invest Oy, i.e. 100,000 shares.

The sale price in the oversubscribed Share Sale was EUR 11.60 per share and the
gross sales proceeds of the Share Sale amounted to approximately EUR 57.7
million. After the Share Sale, the Shareholders own in total 35,644,457 shares
in the Company, corresponding to approximately 61.2 per cent of all the shares
and votes in the Company. The Shareholders have agreed not to sell the remainder
of their holdings in Lehto during a 180-day period.

OP Corporate Bank plc ("OP") and Pareto Securities ("Pareto") acted as Joint
Bookrunners in the Share Sale.

Contact information:

Veli-Pekka Paloranta, CFO
+358 400 944 074
veli-pekka.paloranta@lehto.fi

Disclaimer

Both OP and Pareto are acting exclusively for the Shareholders and no one else
and they will not regard any other person (whether or not a recipient of this
release) as their respective clients in relation to the Share Sale. OP and
Pareto will not be responsible to anyone other than the Shareholders for
providing the protections afforded to their respective clients and will not give
advice in relation to the Share Sale or any transaction or arrangement referred
to herein. OP and Pareto assume no responsibility for the accuracy, completeness
or verification of the information set forth in this release and, accordingly,
disclaim, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all
liability which they may otherwise be found to have in respect of this release.
Nothing contained in this release is, or shall be relied upon as, a promise or
representation as to the past or the future.

The information contained herein is not for publication or distribution,
directly or indirectly, in or into the United States, Canada, Australia, Hong
Kong, South Africa or Japan. This release does not constitute an offer of
securities for sale in the United States, nor may the securities be offered or
sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration
as provided in the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and
regulations thereunder. There is no intention to register any portion of the
Share Sale in the United States or to conduct a public offering of securities in
the United States.

The issue, exercise or sale of securities in the Share Sale are subject to
specific legal or regulatory restrictions in certain jurisdictions. Sentica
assumes no responsibility in the event there is a violation by any person of
such restrictions.

The information contained herein shall not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the securities
referred to herein in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale
would be unlawful prior to registration, exemption from registration or
qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.

Sentica has not authorized any offer to the public of securities in any Member
State of the European Economic Area. The securities referred to in this release
may only be offered in Relevant Member States (a) to any legal entity which is a
qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Directive; or (b) in any other
circumstances falling within Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive. For the
purposes of this paragraph, the expression "Prospectus Directive" means
Directive 2003/71/EC (and amendments thereto).

This communication is directed only at (i) persons who are outside the United
Kingdom or (ii) persons who have professional experience in matters relating to
investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets
Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the "Order") and (iii) high net worth
entities, and other persons to whom it may lawfully be communicated, falling
within Article 49(2) of the Order (all such persons together being referred to
as "relevant persons"). Any investment activity to which this communication
relates will only be available to and will only be engaged with, relevant
persons. Any person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on this
document or any of its contents.


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