Press Release: Bellevue Group AG completes capital increase and achieves gross proceeds of CHF 32.9 Mio.

Bellevue Group AG / Bellevue Group AG completes capital increase and achieves gross proceeds of CHF 32.9 Mio. . Processed and transmitted by NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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Bellevue Group AG (ticker symbol: BBN) has successfully completed its capital increase and achieved gross proceeds of CHF 32.9 Mio.

In the course of the offering, 2'991'428 new registered shares had been subscribed or placed. The capital increase was recorded with the commercial register of the canton of Zurich on April 25, 2016. The share capital of Bellevue Group AG after the capital increase amounts to CHF 1,346,142.80, divided into 13,461,428 registered shares with a nominal value of CHF 0.10 per share.

Start of trading of the new registered shares on the SIX Swiss Exchange will be tomorrow, April 26, 2016. The expected delivery of the new registered shares will take place on April 27, 2016.

Contact:

Media Relations:

Jürg Stähelin, IRF Communications

Telephone +41 43 244 81 51, juerg.staehelin@irfcom.ch

Investor Relations:

Daniel Koller, CFO Bellevue Group

Telephone +41 44 267 67 00, ir@bellevue.ch

Bellevue Group

Bellevue Group is an independent Swiss financial boutique listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange. Established in 1993, the company and its approximately 90 employees are specialists in the fields of Brokerage, Corporate Finance and Asset Management. Bellevue Group includes the two subsidiaries Bank am Bellevue and Bellevue Asset Management. The bank boasts superb knowledge of the Swiss stock and bond market and offers independent research opinions and recommendations as well as viable solutions for capital market transactions. Bellevue Asset Management is focused on selected active equity investment strategies in growing markets, in healthcare industries as well as in other special themes such as entrepreneur-led companies.

This publication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of securities referred to herein in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration, exemption from registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. The securities referred to herein have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to U.S. persons (as such term is defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) absent registration or an exemption from registration under the Securities Act. The issuer of the securities has not registered, and does not intend to register, any portion of the offering in the United States, and does not intend to conduct a public offering of securities in the United States.

This publication constitutes neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation to buy securities of Bellevue Group and it does not constitute a prospectus within the meaning of article 652a and/or 1156 of the Swiss Code of Obligations or a listing prospectus within the meaning of the listing rules of the SIX Swiss Exchange. The offer is made solely by means of, and on the basis of the offering prospectus published in connection with this offering. An investment decision regarding the publicly offered securities of Bellevue Group should only be made on the basis of the offering prospectus. Copies of the offering prospectus and the supplement providing for the final number of offered shares sold in the offering which together with the offering prospectus forms the final offering and listing prospectus are available free of charge at Bellevue Group Ltd and Bank am Bellevue Ltd, Seestrasse 16, 8700 Küsnacht, Switzerland (Telephone: +41 (0) 44 267 67 67; Fax: +41 (0) 44 267 67 50; email: prospectus@bellevue.ch).

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Source: Bellevue Group AG via Globenewswire

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Bellevue Group AG

Seestrasse 16 Küsnacht/Zürich Switzerland

WKN: A0LG3Z;ISIN: CH0028422100;

http://www.bellevue.ch (END) Dow Jones Newswires

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