’S PRE-IPO PROGRAMME 2022

NORWAY

In partnership with IPOready PREPARING COMPANIES TO HOW WILL THE PROGRAMME ATTRACT CAPITAL AND INVESTORS BENEFIT ME? TO SUPPORT THEIR STRATEGY

Together we would like to share our knowledge of what it takes to grow into a successful listed company, delivering the best possible stakeholder value creation. We want to support you along your As of 2015, Euronext has offered pre-IPO educational training programmes. The programmes strategic and financial journey, and help you learn more about: were launched to let companies familiarise themselves with the public capital markets • How the capital markets work and how your company can use them practically and efficiently and garner an understanding of how and when to raise equity and debt capital to secure • How to develop your capital market strategy and the use of different financing strategic financing for their long-term development. The purpose of the programme is to help sources available to publicly listed company companies prepare for a listing operation and become investor ready. Individual participants • How to report and communicate with investors and other stakeholders and will also build skills within capital markets strategy, good governance, quality reporting and raise your business's public profile efficient investor relations, and communication. • How to plan, prepare and structure your business to get ready to attract investors Oslo Børs will now take part in this initiative together with our partners: and raise new capital

Throughout the duration of IPOready, you will be able to connect with growing companies and expert partners based in Norway, while participating in the academic campuses will give you an international perspective and allow for rich networking opportunities.

Crux Advisers is a capital markets advisory Pareto Securities is an independent and professional IR services firm. Our full-service investment bank with a multidisciplinary team of seasoned advisers leading position in the Nordic capital and IR talents help top management and markets, a strong international We are more than 276 000 people in 157 Thommessen is one of Norway's leading business boards formulate their capital markets story presence and global placing power countries, and are among the leading law firms with offices in Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and and communicate effectively to attract capital, across industry sectors. professional networks in the world. London. Thommessen has a leading position within people and partners. We enter into long-term Pareto Securities is headquartered In Norway our 2000 employees from capital markets transactions in Norway and has one of partnerships with our clients to help them build Kristiansand to Tromsø help hundreds of Norway’s largest and most experienced teams assisting in Oslo, Norway, with more than 450 meaningful relationships with capital markets employees located in offices in Norway, companies listed in different stock markets clients both with IPOs and the whole range of legal issues stakeholders and succeed only when the Sweden, Denmark, Finland, United all over the world. We help organisations relevant to listed companies. Every year Thommessen value of our clients' companies is recognised Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, USA, and individuals to succeed, by delivering is involved in a significant number of IPOs on Oslo Børs by stakeholders. Crux’ has a growth strategy Singapore and Australia. quality in assurance, tax and advisory and Euronext Expand (previously Oslo Axess). founded on developing industry leading IP and services. Thommessen understands clients and their opportunities deploying IR best practice methodology, tools In FY19 we provided service to 85% of the and challenges, so that they reach their goals. The advice and technology. Global Fortune 500 companies and more is clear, well-founded and practical, and stems from a Crux Advisers was founded in 2005, we are than 100 000 entrepreneurial and private broad understanding of the factors that affect clients' based in Norway and operate across the businesses. interests: the business, the technological, the social, Nordics, Europe, North and South Americas. We live for others to succeed. the political and the global.

get your business understand capital markets, build a network of investment ready and strategic financing options investors, advisors understand the fund and which options are most and entrepreneurs raising process suitable for your business

2 | 3 IPOready PROGRAMME WHO CAN APPLY ? OVERVIEW Companies with growth ambitions and a clear strategy that:

• are likely to consider a listing within 1 -3 years IPOready provides three modules of knowledge • can commit two senior executives (typically CEO, CFO, sharing: academic campuses, workshop founder) for the duration of the programme sessions and individual coaching. From January to June, participants will attend European events, local group sessions, as well as one-to-one trainings for customised advice. EUROPEAN CAMPUSES HOW DO I APPLY? EUROPEAN CAMPUSES You can apply to IPOready online on Two campuses are organised in collaboration www.euronext.com/en/raise-capital/sme/ipo-ready. with prestigious European business schools, to encourage networking between partners and participants on all Euronext pre-IPO programmes. These campuses include plenary keynotes, group workshops and insights from WORKSHOP entrepreneurs, as well as interaction through SESSIONS WHAT IS THE COST OF THE PROGRAMME? breakout sessions, and discussions with entrepreneurs. The fee to participate in IPOready is NOK 50,000 for two senior One representative from each IPOready executives from each company. The fee covers all training, participating company will be invited to join. mentoring and course material and is payable upon acceptance of a place in the programme. This fee does not include travel 4 WORKSHOP SESSIONS costs to participate in the international academic campuses or in the Oslo workshops. Oslo Børs and our partners will convene interactive workshop sessions in Oslo. INDIVIDUAL Topics will include: COACHING

• How public markets and Oslo Børs support growth and value creation • Why and when to go public WHAT IS THE SELECTION PROCESS? • IPO and listing preparations best practices Representatives from Oslo Børs and the programme • Succeeding as a publicly listed company partners will review all applications and make the final choice of companies suited to participate in IPOready. INDIVIDUAL COACHING Applicants who will be perceived to fit in well with other participants of the programme (in terms of sector, growth Throughout the programme, each participating pattern and past evolution) will be taken into account in companies will be eligible to two one-to-one the selection process. coaching sessions with the IPOready partners. This is a unique opportunity for companies to identify and discuss their main challenges with experienced professionals and receive 4 | tailored advice. | 5 IPOready PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

APPLICATION AND ACADEMIC CAMPUS WORKSHOP SESSIONS AND ACADEMIC CAMPUS SELECTION OF CANDIDATES SEMINAR 1 INDIVIDUAL COACHING SEMINAR 2

Growth Growing a How to prepare Getting the most Succeeding as Governance & strategy successful your business for out of your IPO a publicly listed Post Listing company an IPO ? company

MODULE 1 MODULE 2 MODULE 3 MODULE 4 MODULE 5 MODULE 6

ROTTERDAM OSLO OSLO OSLO OSLO LISBON

ƒ Entrepreneurial ƒ The capital market ƒ The right market for ƒ IPO process and ƒ Playing by the ƒ Plenary keynotes, mindset your company time-line rulebook for listed breakour sessions ƒ Strategic financial companies and discussions with ƒ Scaling options ƒ Legal preparations ƒ Valuation and investor entrepreneurs on landscape ƒ Successful ƒ IPO - a long term ƒ When and why go ƒ Complianceand reporting for newly ƒ ESG strategy public telling your equity ƒ IPO Offer and listed company ƒ IPO Roadshow story with financial marketing ƒ Company identity ƒ Investor perspective ƒ European figures ƒ Using your and culture ƒ IR and communication financial ƒ Communicate your financing options strategy: ecosystem strategy ƒ Investor ƒ Life as a listed ƒ Preparing communication company coomunication and delivering on ƒ Visibility your promises

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IPOready ACADEMIC CAMPUSES The European campus sessions are a networking TOP-TIER BUSINESS SCHOOLS enabler, connecting entrepreneurs from 10 European countries with each other and capital markets advisors

Together with top-tier business schools, Euronext PLENARY organises campus sessions to bring together KEYNOTES participants from all of our pre-IPO programmes - IPOready and TechShare.

One representative from each IPOready PANEL participant company will be invited to join the DISCUSSIONS campus sessions with international companies Oslo and experts. The campuses are organised with leading European business schools to encourage discussions with entrepreneurs and interactions through break-out sessions and plenary keynotes. GROUP WORKSHOPS

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EURONEXT: EURONEXT: A VIBRANT A wide community of SMEs A PAN-EUROPEAN FRANCHISE OF 271 #1 STOCK EXCHANGE LISTED SME AND TECH COMPANIES SME listings listing venue since January for SMEs in 2015 Continental Euronext is the leading pan-European Europe exchange, covering Belgium, France, Ireland, €4,3 trn With 151 new Tech listings since January 2015, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and the UK, aggregated market Euronext is the most dynamic market in Europe for with over 1,400 listed issuers worth capitalisation Tech companies and provides them with an active €37bn €35m €4.3 trillion in market capitalisation as at end platform for raising capital. raised by SMEs amount raised December 2019. through equity on average at since January IPO by SMEs With a SME franchise of more than 1,100 4,700+ 2015 since January 2015 issuers, Euronext has also an unmatched blue-chip franchise including 300 large listed institutional investors companies, and is the largest listing venue for Tech SMEs in Europe with 479 Tech issuers. €178bn aggregated In order to facilitate fast growing SMEs to market access capital markets, 14 SMEs capitalisation is a tailor-made market compartment with Local ecosystems LISTED asset managers and retail investors providing with global reach 1137 liquidity to small and midcaps.

Euronext offers the most diverse and international investor base, connecting our issuers to more than 4,700 institutional 128k+ SHIPPING investors. listed ENERGY LISTINGS securities 50 LISTINGS 27

1,430 1 SEAFOOD cutting-edge trading TECH LISTINGS LISTED COMPANIES platform Optiq® 479 LISTINGS 11

All figures as at November 2020

10 | | 11 Visit our website where Contact us you can complete the Anne Heggelund application online [email protected] www.euronext.com/ipoready +47 22341824 +47 95777573

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EURONEXT: A PAN-EUROPEAN STOCK EXCHANGE Euronext, is the leading pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, covering Belgium, France, Ireland, The Netherlands, Portugal and the UK. With 1,400 listed issuers worth €4.5 trillion in market capitalisation as of end December 2019, Euronext is an unmatched blue chip franchise that has 25 issuers in the Morningstar® Eurozone 50 IndexSM and a strong diverse domestic and international client base. Euronext operates regulated and transparent equity and derivatives markets and is the largest centre for debt and funds listings in the world. Its total product offering includes Equities, Exchange Traded Funds, Warrants & Certificates, Bonds, Derivatives, Commodities and Indices. Euronext also leverages its expertise in running markets by providing technology and managed services to third parties. In addition to its main regulated market, Euronext also operates Euronext GrowthTM and Euronext AccessTM, simplifying access to listing for SMEs. The Irish Stock Exchange plc, trading as Euronext , is regulated by the Central .

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