Lloyd Fonds Aktiengesellschaft: New anchor shareholders to support strategic growth

            - DEWB AG to acquire 25.6 percent of the share capital

- ACP Fund V LLC (AMA) withdrawing from investment

- New composition of the Supervisory Board

Lloyd Fonds AG (LFAG) is announcing changes to its shareholder structure. LFAG has today signed an investment agreement with Deutsche Effecten- und Wechsel-Beteiligungsgesellschaft AG (DEWB), Jena. The reason is that DEWB entered into an over-the-counter share purchase agreement with ACP Fund V LLC (AMA), currently LFAG's principal shareholder, also on today's date. Under this share purchase agreement, which is subject to the usual conditions precedent, DEWB is to acquire around 25.6 percent of the shares in LFAG from AMA. The remaining shares in LFAG held by AMA have been sold today in a separate over-the-counter share purchase agreement to investment funds managed by portfolio manager SPSW Capital GmbH, Hamburg. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase prices.

AMA will thus be withdrawing from this investment after more than six years as the principal shareholder. "Lloyd Fonds has changed strongly over the last few years, realigning its strategy during this period. AMA has always been a reliable partner during this period and we owe it our gratitude," says Dr. Stefan Rindfleisch, chairman of LFAG's Supervisory Board.

The investment agreement, which Management Board member Klaus M. Pinter signed on behalf of LFAG, primarily governs the obligations relating to the future strategic cooperation between DEWB and LFAG and the latter's future corporate governance.

LFAG is to be strengthened and enhanced with its new owner structure. Whereas the focus was previously on closed-end alternative real assets, it will now be working actively on open-end and liquid investments such as equity funds.

"I am very pleased to welcome Lloyd Fonds' new anchor shareholders," says Pinter. "Our skills in the new partnership are a perfect fit. We particularly stand to benefit from DEWB's extensive expertise in the capital market and in asset management, which will generate strong impetus for our strategic development and for growing our business."

Following the transaction, there will be changes to the composition of LFAG's Supervisory Board. In the light of the changed shareholder structure, all members of the supervisory boards with the exception of the Chairman of the supervisory board, Dr. Stefan Rindfleisch, expected that they will be stepping down from LFAG's Supervisory Board. In view of this, LFAG and DEWB have determined in the investment agreement that LFAG is to submit an application to the responsible court to have Achim Plate and Henning Soltau, the shareholders of SPSW Capital GmbH and members of DEWB's Supervisory Board, appointed to LFAG's Supervisory Board.

The main elements of the planned strategy are to be presented by no later than the date of the company's annual general meeting, which is expected to be held in August 2018.

Contact:
Susanne Maack
Capital Markets / PR
Lloyd Fonds AG
Amelungstraße 8-10
20354 Hamburg
Tel: +49-40-325678-132
Fax: +49-40-325678-99
Mail: ir@lloydfonds.de