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DGAP-News: Heliad Equity Partners GmbH & Co. KGaA: Heliad appoints Thomas Hanke as CEO and strengthens

DGAP-News: Heliad Equity Partners GmbH & Co. KGaA / Key word(s): Change of Personnel Heliad Equity Partners GmbH & Co. KGaA: Heliad appoints Thomas Hanke as CEO and strengthens

20.04.2016 / 15:00 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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- Heliad appoints Thomas Hanke as CEO and strengthens its investment team

- Increase of transparency

- NAV as of March 31st 2016: EUR 9.65

Frankfurt/Main, April 20th 2016

Heliad Equity Partners, a listed investment company focusing on investments in German corporates that are facing Special Situations, strengthens its investment team with the arrival of two high-profile hirings. Thomas Hanke, who has already been part of the Heliad team till 2015 and then joined Heliad's portfolio company FinTech Group as Head of Business Development & Investments, is returning with immediate effect as CEO. During the last years, he has led many of Heliad's investments and still holds various board functions within the existing Heliad portfolio.

In addition to that, Gunter Greiner will join the Heliad team as Investment Director. He has more than 15 years of experience in the fields of technology-, growth- and restructuring-investments both in private and listed companies.

Current Managing Director Stefan Feulner will leave the company at the beginning of May on the best possible terms with Heliad's supervisory board after more than three successful years in order to pursue new business opportunities.

Volker Rofalski, Chairman of the Supervisory Board: "The Supervisory Board thanks Stefan Feulner for his strong commitment and the excellent cooperation within the last 3 years. We warmly welcome Thomas Hanke as new CEO and are convinced that the enlarged setup is a perfect basis for the continuation of our success story."

With Heliad shares, both individual and institutional investors have a stock with daily liquidity that allows them to benefit from the opportunities offered by a diversified, Germany-focused special situations portfolio. The company expects to continue the trend of value creation consistent with the recent history of growing the NAV by greater than 25% per year, maintaining the Company's position as a leading performer amongst listed private equity companies worldwide.

In order to increase transparency and to broaden the investor base, Heliad will with immediate effect report in both English and German and release, additional to annual and bi-annual comprehensive reports, also quarterly NAV statements always on the 15th of the month following the end of the quarter.

As of March 31st 2016, NAV equals EUR 9.65 per share. More information about the current portfolio can be found under the re-designed and upgraded web presence www.heliad.com.

In addition to continuous efforts to increase shareholder value, Heliad management has implemented a sustainable dividend policy. The target is a continual dividend yield of at least 3%. For fiscal year 2015, management intends to propose to the Annual Shareholders' Meeting a dividend of EUR 0.20 per share, as compared to the EUR 0.15 dividend paid in 2015 for fiscal year 2014.

Thomas Hanke will present at the MKK conference (www.mkk-investor.de) in Munich on April 27th 2016 and at the DVFA Frühjahrskonferenz (www.dvfa.de) in Frankfurt on May 10th 2016.

Press contact: Heliad Equity Partners GmbH & Co. KGaA Grüneburgweg 18 60322 Frankfurt/Main

Investor Relations Tel.: +49 (0)69 71 91 59 65 0 E-Mail: investor-relations@heliad.com

About HELIAD EQUITY PARTNERS

Heliad (ISIN: DE000A0L1NN5 / Ticker: HPBK) is a listed investment company focusing on investments into listed and unlisted companies in German-speaking countries that are facing Special Situations. Heliad's "evergreen" structure allows the company to act independently of usual fund lifecycles and to apply a flexible and entrepreneurial approach in order to take advantage of the opportunities that special situations present.

This, combined with Heliad's proactive, hands-on approach to investments allows the company to achieve significantly higher returns for its shareholders than usual private equity funds. With an average annual NAV performance of more than 25% since 2012, Heliad is currently one of the most successful listed investment companies worldwide.

With Heliad shares, both individual and institutional investors have a stock with daily liquidity that allows them to benefit from the opportunities offered by a diversified special situations portfolio.

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Language: English Company: Heliad Equity Partners GmbH & Co. KGaA Grüneburgweg 18 60322 Frankfurt am Main Germany Phone: +49 69 71 91 59 65 0 Fax: +49 69 71 91 59 65 11 E-mail: info@heliad.com Internet: www.heliad.com ISIN: DE000A0L1NN5 WKN: A0L1NN Listed: Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart; Open Market (Entry Standard) in Frankfurt End of News DGAP News Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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