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Stock exchange release - 9 February 2006

CapMan comments on market information

CapMan Plc has today received information that GIMV has approached certain large shareholders of CapMan Plc to discuss the possibility to combine GIMV and CapMan Plc into a European private equity firm.

In addition, the aforementioned shareholders have declared that these preliminary discussions have not led to a conclusion and have been terminated.

Helsinki 9 February 2006

CapMan Plc

Board of Directors

For further information, please contact:

Ari Tolppanen, Chairman, CapMan Plc, tel. +358 9 6155 8307 or +358 500 407 343

CapMan
CapMan is one of the leading private equity investors in the Nordic countries and specialises in middle market buyouts in various industry sectors, technology investments in the IT and communications sectors and investments in life science companies. In addition, CapMan manages private equity real estate funds. The CapMan team comprises around 90 people in Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo. CapMan manages Nordic funds with approx. €2.2 billion in total capital. To date, the funds managed by CapMan have invested in 147 companies in the Nordic countries and exited from 79 companies. The latest investments are made in Norwegian InfoCare AS, Finnish Flander Ltd, Swedish Inflight Services AB and Danish Scan•Jour A/S. The portfolio of CapMan’s first private equity real estate fund consists of 18 commercial properties in the Helsinki metropolitan area. CapMan Plc is listed on the Main List of the Helsinki Stock Exchange. www.capman.com

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