MTG (the “Company”) notes that its largest shareholder, Kinnevik AB (publ) (“Kinnevik”), holding 47.6 per cent of the votes and 20 per cent of the shares in the Company, has today announced that its Board of Directors will convene an Extraordinary General Meeting of its shareholders to be held during the third quarter of 2018 and propose that its shares in the Company be distributed to Kinnevik’s shareholders. The announcement can be found at www.kinnevik.com.

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