Nexstim Plc: The Board of Directors of Nexstim Plc decided on a subscription rights issue and publishes the issue terms and basic information document

Company announcement, inside information, Helsinki, 30 April 2020 at 7.00 pm (EET)

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Nexstim Plc (NXTMH:HEX, NXTMS:STO) ("Nexstim" or "Company") announces, that pursuant to the authorisation granted by the Annual General Meeting of the Company on 30 April 2020, the Board of Directors of the Company has today decided to arrange a rights issue of approximately EUR 2.3 million (the “Offering”). Nexstim will today publish the Terms and Conditions of the Offering approved by the Board of Directors.

Summary of the Offering

• Nexstim's EUR 2.3 million issue of new shares ("Offer Shares") is a subscription rights issue, in which current shareholders have a pre-emptive right.
• Each shareholder of Nexstim receives one (1) book-entry subscription right which entitles to subscribe Offer Shares ("Subscription Right") against each of the Company's share held by a shareholder on 6  May  2020 ("Record Date").
• Each one (1) Subscription Right grants a right to subscribe for six (6) Offer Shares at the subscription price of EUR 0.006 per Offer Share ("Subscription Price"). The Subscription Price for the Offer Shares that are registered with Euroclear Sweden and listed on the First North Sweden marketplace which is maintained by Nasdaq Stockholm AB, is 0.06 SEK per Offer Share.
• The subscription period for the Offer Shares begins on 11 May 2020 at 9.30 am Finnish time (8.30 Swedish time) and ends on 27 May 2020 16.30 Finnish time (15.30 Swedish time) in Finland and 25 May 2020 at 16.30 Finnish time (15.30 Swedish time) in Sweden.
• The Subscription Rights are freely transferable and are expected to be traded on the First North Finland marketplace (trading symbol NXTMHU0120) which is maintained by Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd (”First North Finland”) and on the First North Sweden marketplace which is maintained by Nasdaq Stockholm AB (“First North Sweden”) (trading symbol NXTMS TR) between 11 May 2020 and 20 May 2020.

Terms and conditions of the Offering

A total of approximately EUR 2.2 million can be collected with the Offering after deducting the costs of the Offering if the Offering is subscribed in full.

Of the Company’s major shareholders, Capricorn Healthtech Fund, Kaikarhenni Oy and Ossi Haapaniemi with his related-party companies, and the Company’s management team and certain Board members are, subject to certain terms and conditions, committed to subscribing for approximately 28% of the Offer Shares of the amount of approximately EUR 0.634 million.

Nexstim will give all shareholders registered in Nexstim’s shareholder register maintained by Euroclear Finland Oy (“Euroclear Finland”) or Euroclear Sweden AB (“Euroclear Sweden”) one (1) book-entry subscription right (“Subscription Right”) per each share held on the Record Date. The Record Date is 6 May 2020. Each Subscription Right entitle the holder to subscribe for 6 Offer Shares. The Company thus offers its shareholders a maximum of 376,719,780 new shares to be subscribed for in accordance with the pre-emptive subscription right of the shareholders. If all Offer Shares have not been subscribed for on the basis of the Subscription Rights, the Board of Nexstim will decide on the allocation of the Offer Shares in question as follows: a) first to those who have subscribed for the Shares on the basis of the Subscription Right and b) secondarily to those who have subscribed for the Shares without Subscription Rights (in case of over-subscription the situation is settled in proportion to the Subscription Rights / subscriptions which have been made and if that is not possible, by lot).

The following function as subscription locations: a) In Finland, custodians and account operators and b) In Sweden, custodians and for the subscriptions without subscription rights, the Company’s website at www.nexstim.com/investors/rights-issue-2020 (which includes instructions).

Reasons for the Offering and use of proceeds

The intention is to use the funds raised by the Offering to strengthen the Company's balance sheet, to enable the investments compliant with the Company’s strategy, e.g. in sales, product development and clinical research and in other general requirements of the Company’s ordinary operations.
In particular, Nexstim intends to use the proceeds of the Offering to:

• Support existing NBS Pre-surgical mapping business by ensuring installed base service business
• Support NBT business revenue growth mainly through better utilization of existing system installed base
• Repayments of existing loans of the Company
• Start new pilot clinical trials in the possible areas of new accelerated treatment protocols in both severe (suicidal) depression and chronic neuropathic pain
• Finance its R&D and other working capital need
• General corporate purposes

The planned schedule for the Offering is:

Basic information document and Terms and Conditions of the Offering
For the purposes of the Offering, the Company has prepared a basic information document in accordance with chapter 3, section 2 of the Regulation of the Finnish Ministry of Finance regarding basic information document (1281/2018), which document will be kept available at the Company’s website www.nexstim.com/investors/rights-issue-2020 from on or about 30 April 2020 until the end of the Offering period.

The Terms and Conditions of the Offering are attached to this company announcement.

Advisors
In the Offering, Attorneys at Law Trust Ltd acts as a legal advisor of the Company in matters pertaining to Finnish law and Wistrand Advokatbyrå in matters pertaining to Swedish law.

Further information is available on the website www.nexstim.com, or by contacting:
Leena Niemistö, Chairman
+358 9 2727 170
leena.niemisto@nexstim.com

Sisu Partners Oy (Certified Adviser)
Jussi Majamaa
+ 358 40 842 4479
jussi.majamaa@sisupartners.com

About Nexstim Plc

Nexstim is a Finnish, globally operating medical technology company. Our mission is to enable personalized and effective therapies and diagnostics for challenging brain diseases and disorders.
Nexstim has developed a world-leading non-invasive brain stimulation technology called SmartFocus®.

It is a navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) technology with highly sophisticated 3D navigation providing accurate and personalized targeting of the TMS to the specific area of the brain.

SmartFocus® technology is used in Nexstim’s proprietary Navigated Brain Therapy (NBT®) system, which is FDA cleared for marketing and commercial distribution for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) in the United States. In Europe, the NBT® system is CE marked for the treatment of major depression and chronic neuropathic pain.

In addition, Nexstim is commercializing its SmartFocus® based Navigated Brain Stimulation (NBS) system for diagnostic applications. The NBS system is the only FDA cleared and CE marked navigated TMS system for pre-surgical mapping of the speech and motor cortices of the brain. Nexstim shares are listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland and Nasdaq First North Growth Market Sweden.
 

Note
The information contained in this announcement is not intended to be published or distributed, directly or indirectly, in Australia, South Africa, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, Singapore or the United States of America. The information contained in this announcement does not constitute an offer for the sale of securities in the United States, and the securities may not be offered or sold in the United States unless they are registered in accordance with the United States Securities Act of 1933 (as amended) and regulations and regulations issued under it, or unless there is an exemption from registration. Nexstim Plc ("the Company") does not intend to register any part of the Offering in the United States and does not intend to provide securities to the public in the United States.
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