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Lundin Completes E&P business combination with Aker BP

June 30, 2022

Lundin Energy AB announced the completion of the combination (the “Combination”) of Lundin Energy’s E&P business with Aker BP ASA (“Aker BP”). The Combination creates the leading European independent E&P company with a world class asset base, industry leading low operating costs and low carbon emissions, with increased and sustainable dividends. Shareholders will also retain their existing holding in Lundin Energy’s renewables focussed growth business, which is changing its name to Orrön Energy AB (“Orrön Energy”) as of 1 July 2022. Due to the completion of the Combination, Lundin Energy will not, in accordance with the resolution at the Annual General Meeting 2022, pay any of the remaining quarterly cash dividends resolved upon at the Annual General Meeting.

In exchange for Lundin Energy’s E&P business portfolio, shareholders will be entitled to:

Cash totalling BUSD 2.22 (SEK 78.78 per share after conversion from USD)
271,910,019 Aker BP shares (0.95098 Aker BP shares, represented by Swedish Depository Receipts, for each share in Lundin Energy)
Retain their existing shareholding in Lundin Energy, which will change its name to Orrön Energy as of 1 July 2022 and become a renewables focussed growth business

Accordingly, following the completion of the Combination, the shareholders of Lundin Energy will hold 43 percent of the total number of shares and votes of Aker BP (based on 632,022,210 shares and votes in Aker BP).

The Annual General Meeting of Lundin Energy resolved on 31 March 2022 on a quarterly cash dividend of USD 0.5625 per share, corresponding to USD 160 million (rounded off) per quarter. The payment of each quarterly cash dividend was made conditional upon that the Company owns all shares in Lundin Energy MergerCo AB (publ) on the record date for the relevant quarterly cash dividend. The first quarterly dividend was paid on 7 April 2022. Since the Combination now has been completed and the Company no longer owns any shares in Lundin Energy MergerCo AB (publ), the Company will not pay any of the remaining quarterly cash dividends.

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