Borregaard ASA: Reporting of transactions in Borregaard ASA's shares made by person discharging managerial responsibilities

Today, primary insider Ole Gunnar Jakobsen, Plant Director, Sarpsborg Site, exercised 3,575 stock options at a strike price of NOK 70.95 per share and in separate transactions, purchased and sold the same number of shares. The shares are drawn from Borregaard's holdings of treasury shares. Please, see attached notifications for persons discharging managerial responsibilities in Borregaard in accordance with Regulation EU 596/2014 (MAR) article 19. After the transactions, Ole Gunnar Jakobsen owns 32,069 shares and holds 61,425 stock options in Borregaard. The total number of outstanding Borregaard stock options following this transaction is 1,306,318. Borregaard owns 430,029 treasury shares, representing 0.43% of the total number of shares outstanding. Borregaard ASA Sarpsborg, 12 August 2021 Contact: Lotte Kvinlaug, Investor Relations Officer, +47 922 86 909 This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to Section 3-1 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act, cf. Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (market abuse regulation) Article 19.