Nighthawk Energy Regulatory News (HAWK)

10 May 2018

Nighthawk Energy plc ("Nighthawk" or "the Company")

Requisition of General Meeting

Nighthawk, the US focused oil development and production company (AIM: HAWK and OTCQX: NHEGY), announces that it has received a letter pursuant to section 303 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act") requiring the Directors of the Company to convene a general meeting of the Company's shareholders (the "Requisition").

The Requisition is signed by Chase Nominees Limited (as the registered holder and acting only in its capacity as nominee for Nordea Bank, S.A.) on behalf of Fastighets AB Kopralen in respect of 126,480,797 ordinary shares of 0.25p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") and on behalf of Johan Claesson in respect of 24,584,500 Ordinary Shares, (the "Requisitioning Shareholder"), representing in total approximately 15.7 per cent. of the Company's issued Ordinary Shares carrying voting rights.

The Requisition proposes that shareholders be asked to consider ordinary resolutions to appoint each of Johan Claesson and Johan Damne to the Board as non-executive directors; and to remove Rick McCullough and Chuck Wilson from the Board (the "Resolutions").

Section 304 of the Act requires the Directors to call such a general meeting within 21 days of the date of receipt of the Requisition and to hold such general meeting on a date not more than 28 days after the date of the notice convening such general meeting.

The Requisitioning Shareholder have stated that they intend to circulate a statement with respect to the Resolutions (in accordance with section 314 of the Act) in advance of the notice to shareholders of the general meeting.

Shareholders are advised to take no action at this time. Further announcements will be made in due course.

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This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014.