Bavarian Nordic A/S - Major Shareholder Announcement

KVISTGAARD, Denmark, March 13, 2015 - Pursuant to Section 29 of the Danish Securities Trading Act it is hereby announced, that ATP has decreased its ownership in Bavarian Nordic and now holds 2,741,918 shares in Bavarian Nordic corresponding to 9.91 % of the share capital and voting rights in Bavarian Nordic.

Contacts
Rolf Sass Sørensen
Vice President Investor Relations (EU)
Tel: +45 61 77 47 43

Seth Lewis
Vice President Investor Relations (US)
Tel: + 1 978-298-5654

About Bavarian Nordic
Bavarian Nordic is an international biotechnology company developing and manufacturing novel cancer immunotherapies and vaccines for infectious diseases. Lead product candidates are PROSTVAC®, an immunotherapy product candidate for advanced prostate cancer that is the subject of an ongoing pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial, and IMVAMUNE®, a non-replicating smallpox vaccine candidate in Phase 3 development, which is being developed and supplied for emergency use to the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile under a contract with the U.S. Government. The vaccine is approved in Canada under the trade name IMVAMUNE and in the European Union under the trade name IMVANEX. Bavarian Nordic's shares are listed on Nasdaq OMX Copenhagen under the symbol BAVA (Reuters: BAVA.CO, Bloomberg: BAVA.DC). The company has a sponsored Level 1 ADR program listed in the US (OTC) under the symbol BVNRY.  For more information, visit www.bavarian-nordic.com.