Partial exercise of over-allotment option

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Partial exercise of over-allotment option

26 November 2021 - Further to its announcement on 27 October 2021 regarding the successful pricing of its initial public offering (the "Offering"), Softline Holding plc ("Softline"; LSE Reg S and MOEX: SFTL; LSE 144A: SFTH), a leading global solutions and services provider in digital transformation and cybersecurity, announces that Credit Suisse Bank (Europe) S.A., in connection with the Offering, as stabilising manager, has partially exercised the over-allotment option (the "Over-Allotment Option") granted by certain of the over-allotment shareholders in respect of 88,062 GDRs (the "Over-Allotment GDRs") at the offer price of USD 7.50 each.

Including the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option, the total size of the Offering was 53,421,396 GDRs.

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