CapMan - Changes in company's own shares

CapMan Plc starts share repurchases

CapMan Plc Stock Exchange Release 8 August 2008 10.10 a.m. CET
CapMan Plc Board of Directors has decided to start purchases of a
maximum of 1,000,000 CapMan Plc B shares. The decision is based on
the authorization granted by the Annual General Meeting on 27 March
2008 to purchase at maximum 8,000,000 B shares. The purchases will
start on 18 August at the earliest, and they will end by 30 June
2008.

The shares may be repurchased in order to finance or carry out
acquisitions or other business transactions, in order to develop the
Company's capital structure, to improve the liquidity of the
Company's shares, to be disposed for other purposes, or to be
cancelled.

The repurchases will be carried out through public trading on the OMX
Nordic Exchange Helsinki, whereby the shares will be purchased in
another proportion than according to the holdings of the shareholders
and in accordance with the rules and regulations of the OMX Nordic
Exchange Helsinki and the Finnish Central Securities Depository.


For more information, please contact:
Kaisa Arovaara, CFO, CapMan Plc, tel. +358 207 207 583


CAPMAN PLC


Mari Reponen
Communications Director
Investor Services


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CapMan  www.capman.com
CapMan is one of the leading alternative asset managers in the Nordic
countries and manages Nordic funds with approximately EUR 3.2 billion
in total capital. CapMan has six investment areas (CapMan Buyout,
CapMan Technology, CapMan Life Science, CapMan Russia, CapMan Public
Market  and CapMan Real Estate), and each of them has a dedicated
team and funds. Altogether CapMan employs 130 people in Helsinki,
Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo and Moscow. CapMan was established in
1989 and its B shares are listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange since
2001.