WISeKey completes Draw Down under the Yorkville Standby Equity Distribution Agreement

WISeKey completes Draw Down under the Yorkville Standby Equity Distribution Agreement

Zug, Switzerland, 29 June 2018 – WISeKey International Holding Ltd (SIX: WIHN, OTCQX: WIKYY) (“WISeKey”) announced today that the pricing period regarding the draw-down under the Standby Equity Distribution Agreement (“SEDA”) with a fund managed by Yorkville Advisors Global, LLC (“Yorkville”), as previously announced has ended and that Yorkville has subscribed for 258,397 registered shares, par value CHF 0.05 each (the “Class B Shares”), at an issue price of CHF 3.87 per Class B Share and an aggregate issue price of CHF 1,000,000. The new Class B Shares will be issued to Yorkville out of WISeKey’s authorized capital and be listed and tradeable on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Under the terms of the SEDA, Yorkville has committed to provide WISeKey, upon a draw-down request by WISeKey, up to CHF 50 million in equity financing over a three-year period in tranches of up to CHF 1 million each or, if WISeKey provides a sufficient number of Class B Shares through share lending, up to CHF 5 million each.

This is the first time WISeKey drawdowns from the SEDA as the SEDA provides WISeKey with the necessary financial flexibility to continue investing on WISeKey’s US operation expansion, which is key at this stage to further expand our market penetration and revenue generation, said WISeKey CEO Carlos Moreira.

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About WISeKey
WISeKey (SIX: WIHN, OTCQX: WIKYY) is a leading cybersecurity company currently deploying large scale Internet of Things (“IoT”) digital identity ecosystems and has become a pioneer of the “4th Industrial Revolution”.  WISeKey’s Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) integrates wearable technology with secure authentication and identification, in both physical and virtual environments, and empowers IoT and wearable devices to become secure transactional devices. The RoT serves as a common trust anchor, which is recognized by the operating system and applications, to ensure the authenticity, confidentiality and integrity of on-line transactions. With the cryptographic RoT embedded on the device, the IoT product manufacturers can use code-signing certificates and a cloud-based signature as a service to secure interactions among objects and between objects and people. WISeKey has patented this process in the USA as it is currently used by many IoT providers.

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