ams intends to place currently held 3.35 million treasury shares

• ams intends to place its entire treasury stock of 3.35 million shares prior to the forthcoming rights issue
• Placement of treasury shares aims at further enhancing the ams shareholder base and preventing dilution as treasury shares are not granted subscription rights under Austrian law

Premstaetten, Austria (28 January 2020) -- ams AG (SIX: AMS), a leading worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions, announces the intention to place its entire 3.35 million shares of treasury stock by means of a private placement at market conditions ("Transaction") to selected institutional investors. The Transaction is expected to be executed prior to the forthcoming rights issue which was approved by the Extraordinary General Meeting of ams on 24 January 2020 (the "Rights Issue").

Under Austrian corporate law, treasury shares are not entitled to subscription rights in the context of a Rights Issue. As such, the intended Transaction is in essence a technical measure to prevent an automatic economic dilution. The Transaction is expected to be executed by UBS and HSBC.

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This announcement constitutes neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation to buy securities. Any public offer will be made solely by means of, and on the basis of, a securities prospectus (including any amendments thereto, if any) to be approved by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (Finanzmarktaufsichtsbehörde, “FMA”) and to be published in Austria. An investment decision regarding any publicly offered securities of ams should only be made on the basis of a securities prospectus. Any orders relating to securities of ams received prior to the commencement of a public offering will be rejected. If a public offering is to be made in Austria, a securities prospectus will be published promptly upon approval by FMA in accordance with the Austrian Capital Markets Act 2019 as well as other applicale laws and the European Prospectus Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 and will be available free of charge from ams during usual business hours, or on the ams website.

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This announcement constitutes neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation to buy securities and does not constitute a prospectus according to Articles 35 et seqq. of the Swiss Financial Services Act (“FinSA”) or Articles 652a and 1156 of the Swiss Code of Obligations (as such articles were in effect immediately prior to the entry into effect of FinSA) or Article 27 et seqq. of the SIX Swiss Exchange Listing Rules. The offer will be made solely by means of, and on the basis of, the prospectus which will be available free of charge, inter alia, from ams during regular business hours, or on the ams website. An investment decision regarding the publicly offered securities of ams should only be made on the basis of the prospectus.

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