Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd: The Market Court's decision relating to Mehiläinen Yhtiöt Oy's expired voluntary public cash tender offer for all shares in Pihlajalinna Plc

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The Market Court's decision relating to Mehiläinen Yhtiöt Oy's expired
voluntary public cash tender offer for all shares in Pihlajalinna Plc 



Mehiläinen Yhtiöt Oy, Stock Exchange Release, 29 December 2020 at 5:15 p.m.
(EET) 



Mehiläinen Yhtiöt Oy ("Mehiläinen") announced on 25 November 2020 that it would
not complete the public tender offer it had made for all issued and outstanding
shares in Pihlajalinna Plc ("Pihlajalinna") (the "Tender Offer"). In connection
therewith, Mehiläinen confirmed that it would continue the proceedings before
the Market Court with the aim of obtaining the Market Court's decision on the
proposed combination of Mehiläinen and Pihlajalinna, and that it would
separately announce the outcome of such proceedings. 



Further to the above, Mehiläinen announces that the Market Court has today
rendered its decision in the matter. According to the decision, the Market
Court has found that due to the expiry of the Tender Offer, the prerequisites
for any further handling of the matter at the Market Court have lapsed.
Accordingly, the Market Court has not opined on the proposed combination of
Mehiläinen and Pihlajalinna and instead decided that the handling of the matter
shall lapse. 



Contacts for media and investor inquiries:



Mehiläinen

Janne-Olli Järvenpää, CEO of Mehiläinen



Requests for contacts through Mehiläinen's communications:

Communications Director Laura Martinsuo

tel. [phone]

[e-mail]



Mehiläinen in brief:



Now 111 years old, Mehiläinen is a rapidly developing and growing private
provider of healthcare and social care services, offering comprehensive
high-quality services to private, corporate, municipal and insurance customers.
Mehiläinen provides help, support and care for approximately 1.3 million
customers every year across Finland. In 2019, our revenue was EUR 1064.1
million and our customers were cared for by more than 21,800 employees and
private practitioners at over 500 locations. In all of its business areas,
Mehiläinen invests in high-quality health care with an impact and develops and
exports Finnish digital healthcare know-how across the world as a forerunner in
its field. 



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