DGAP-Adhoc: Heliad Equity Partners GmbH & Co. KGaA: Heliad signs stock option agreement with WAOW Group for the sale of most of its shares in SLEEPZ AG

• Heliad signs stock option agreement with WAOW Group for the sale of most of its shares in SLEEPZ AG
• Comprehensive loan waiver to SLEEPZ AG with debtor warrant
• Significant impairment on Heliad's shareholdings and loans granted related to annual result as at 31.12.2018

Frankfurt/Main, 28 March 2019 - Heliad Equity Partners GmbH & Co. KGaA ("Heliad"), headquartered in Frankfurt (ISIN DE000A0L1NN5), announces that it has today entered into a stock option agreement with WAOW Entrepreneurship GmbH ("WAOW") and others. Under the agreement, WAOW is entitled to acquire 4,060.805 shares held by Heliad in the listed SLEEPZ AG against payment of a purchase price. Alongside Heliad, other significant shareholders of SLEEPZ AG have acted accordingly. In addition, Heliad and other creditors of SLEEPZ AG have undertaken to waive their claims for repayment of loans and the convertible bond in full against the granting of a debtor warrant. The execution of the measures is subject to various preceding conditions and depends on the exercise of the option right by WAOW. WAOW has pledged to provide bridge financing to SLEEPZ AG.

The conclusion of the agreements is intended to enable a restructuring of SLEEPZ AG.

In this context, Heliad will have to make an unscheduled write-down on its investment in SLEEPZ AG. The compulsory write-downs on the assets - shares, outstanding loans and interest - amounting to approx. EUR 8.1 million will, to the extent required by commercial law, be included in the annual financial statements for 2018. The (provisional) annual result published on 22 February 2019 in accordance with the provisions of the German Commercial Code (HGB) would then deteriorate, considering the total impairment of approximately EUR -9.5 million. Heliad's (provisional) result for the period according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) would then amount to EUR -56.7 million.
 

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