Part One: STENOCARE A/S hereby notifies about changes in major shareholding as a result of an agreement reached between the Founders of STENOCARE and CannTrust. According to the agreement, the Founders will receive back all remaining shares in STENOCARE, previously held by CannTrust as shown in the table below. Part Two: At the same time, the Founders have decided to forward 50 to 60% of these shares to STENOCARE as a non-cash contribution. Combining with yesterday's market message, this means that a total of minimum 11% of the outstanding shares become own shares for the benefit of all existing shareholders.

 Part One: Notification of changes in major shareholding

     Before Before After After
     Shares  Share  Shares Share of
of capital
capital
   CannTrust  1.420.455 15,9%  0  0%
 Founder STENO Group IVS (Rolf 1.502.841 16,8%  2.000.000  22,4%
Steno, CCO)
 Founder Prana Holding ApS  1.335.228 14,9%  1.761.365  19,7%
(Thomas S.
Schnegelsberg, CEO)
 Founder MS Kjær Holding ApS 1.289.773 14,4%  1.715.910  19,2%
(Søren Kjær, COO)
 Founder Kompas Administration 66.734 0,7% 137.756 1,5%
A/S

Note: CannTrust's total shareholding was 1.693.182 before 272.727 were given to STENOCARE
Note: The total outstanding share capital of STENOCARE A/S is 8.942.763.

 

When STENOCARE was founded in 2017, the Founders entered into a partnership agreement with CannTrust against 25% of their shares in STENOCARE, corresponding to 1.420.455 shares in total (the "CannTrust shares"). The parties have now entered into an agreement whereby CannTrust hands back these shares to the Founders. After this transaction, CannTrust is longer a shareholder in STENOCARE. The CannTrust shares represent 15.9% of the current outstanding share capital.

Part Two: Today, it was also agreed that the Founders will inject 50 to 60% of the CannTrust shares as a non-cash contribution to STENOCARE. The founders have confirmed that none of the remaining CannTrust shares will be for sale in the public market for a minimum of 12 months. Final details about the transfer of the Founders' CannTrust shares will be communicated in due time.

 

For additional information regarding STENOCARE, please contact:

Thomas Skovlund Schnegelsberg, CEO       
Phone: +45 31770060        
 E-mail: presse@stenocare.com

About STENOCARE A/S

STENOCARE A/S was founded in 2017 with the purpose of being an active participant in the Danish medical cannabis pilot programme. The company was first to receive the Danish Medicines Agency's permission to import, distribute as well as cultivate and produce medical cannabis. STENOCARE is also developing a separate production facility for the cultivation and production of medical cannabis at the company's premises in Jutland, Denmark.

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