AMANDA CAPITAL PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 19.6.2006 AMANDA CAPITAL PLC IS PLANNING TO INVEST EUR 20 MILLION TO A NEW FUND OF FUNDS The Amanda Group is establishing a limited partnership fund, Amanda IV West, which invests in unquoted companies in Western Europe through local private equity funds. Amanda Capital Plc is going to make a EUR 20 million commitment from its own balance sheet to this fund. AMANDA CAPITAL PLC Petteri Änkilä CEO Further information: Mr Petteri Änkilä, CEO, tel. +358 9 6829 6011 Distribution: Helsinki Stock Exchange www.amandacapital.fi The Amanda Group is a private equity investment company. Its parent company (Amanda Capital Plc) is the first publicly listed private equity fund-of-funds in Scandinavia. The parent company has investments in 24 different private equity funds and in three funds of funds managed by Amanda. Amanda Group is one of Finland's largest private equity fund investment management companies. The Group manages several private equity fund portfolios under consultancy agreements. It manages also five private equity funds of funds, which have several domestic and international investors. Amanda Group currently has more than EUR 1.3 billion of assets under management (original investment commitments) and has made investments in more than 100 private equity funds in Europe, the United States, Asia and Russia.