Just Group plc announces an amendment and extension of its Tender Offer for its £250,000,000

9.000 per cent. Guaranteed Subordinated Notes due 2026

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14 November 2022. Just Group plc (the Company) originally announced on 7 November 2022 an invitation to holders of its outstanding £250,000,000 9.000 per cent. Guaranteed Subordinated Notes due 2026 (ISIN: XS1504958817) (the Notes) to tender their Notes for purchase by the Company for cash (the Offer).

The Company announces today certain amendments to the Offer. This announcement should be read in conjunction with the tender offer memorandum dated 7 November 2022 (the Tender Offer Memorandum) prepared by the Company. The Offer is being made on the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the Tender Offer Memorandum, as amended by this announcement, and is subject to the offer restrictions set out below and as more fully described in the Tender Offer Memorandum. Copies of the Tender Offer Memorandum are (subject to distribution restrictions) available from the Tender Agent as set out below. Capitalised terms used in this announcement but not defined have the meanings given to them in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Amendment to the Offer

The Company has determined to (i) amend the Purchase Spread to + 390 bps; and (ii) extend the Expiration Deadline to 4.00 p.m. (London time) on 16 November 2022.

The Pricing Date and the Settlement Date will also be extended as set out in the revised timetable for the Offer below.

All references to the "Purchase Spread" in the Tender Offer Memorandum shall be read accordingly, and all references to the "Expiration Deadline", the "Pricing Date" and the "Settlement Date" in the Tender Offer Memorandum shall be as set out in the timetable for the Offer below.

Summary of the Offer (as amended by this announcement)

ISIN /

Outstanding

Benchmark

Purchase

Description of the Notes

Common Code

nominal amount

Security

Spread

Target Acceptance Amount

£250,000,000 9.000 per

0.375 per cent. UK

Subject as set out in the

cent. Guaranteed

XS1504958817

£250,000,000

Treasury Gilt due 22

+ 390 bps

Tender Offer Memorandum,

Subordinated Notes due

/ 150495881

October 2026 (ISIN:

up to £100,000,000 in

2026

GB00BNNGP668)

aggregate nominal amount.

General

Tender Instructions submitted prior to the release of this announcement shall remain valid for the purposes of the Offer. Tenders of Notes in the Offer are irrevocable, except in the limited circumstances described in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

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Indicative Timetable for the Offer (as amended by this announcement)

Events

Times and Dates

Amendment to the Offer announced

Amendment to the Offer announced

Notice of the amendment to the Offer published on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange's website at www.bourse.lu

Expiration Deadline

Deadline for receipt by the Tender Agent of all Tender Instructions.

Announcement of Indicative Results

Announcement by the Company of the aggregate nominal amount of Notes validly tendered in the Offer, together with a non-binding indication of the level at which it expects to set the Final Acceptance Amount and (if applicable) indicative details of the Pro-ration Factor that will apply in the event that the Company decides to accept valid tenders of Notes pursuant to the Offer.

Pricing Time

Determination of the Benchmark Security Rate, the Purchase Yield and the Purchase Price.

Announcement of Final Results and Pricing

Announcement by the Company of whether it will accept for purchase Notes validly tendered in the Offer and, if so accepted, the Final Acceptance Amount, the Benchmark Security Rate, the Purchase Yield, the Purchase Price, (if applicable) the Pro-ration Factor that will be applied to valid tenders of Notes and the aggregate nominal amount of Notes that will remain outstanding after the Settlement Date.

Settlement Date

Payment of the Purchase Price and the Accrued Interest Payment in respect of the Notes accepted for purchase.

(all times are London Time)

Monday, 14 November 2022

4.00 p.m. on Wednesday, 16 November

2022

Prior to the Pricing Time on the Pricing Date

At or around 10.00 a.m. on Thursday, 17 November 2022 (the Pricing Date)

As soon as reasonably practicable after the Pricing Time on the Pricing Date

Expected to be Friday, 18 November 2022

Subject to applicable law and as provided in the Tender Offer Memorandum, the Company may, in its sole discretion, further extend, re-open, further amend, waive any condition of or terminate the Offer at any time and the above times and dates are subject to the right of the Company to so further extend, re-open, further amend and/or terminate the Offer.

Noteholders are advised to check with any bank, securities broker or other intermediary through which they hold Notes when such intermediary would need to receive instructions from a Noteholder in order for that Noteholder to be able to participate in, or (in the limited circumstances in which revocation is permitted) revoke their instruction to participate in, the Offer before the deadlines specified above. The deadlines set by any such intermediary and each Clearing System for the submission of Tender Instructions will be earlier than the relevant deadlines specified above and in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Unless stated otherwise, announcements in connection with the Offer will be made by the Company by (i) publication on the website of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange at www.bourse.lu and (ii) delivery of notices to the Clearing Systems for communication to Direct Participants. Such announcements may also be found on the relevant Reuters Insider Screen and be made by the issue of a press release to a Notifying News Service. Significant delays may be experienced in respect of notices delivered to the Clearing Systems and Noteholders are urged to contact the Tender Agent for the relevant announcements during the course of the Offer, the contact details for which are set out below.

Further Information

Noteholders are advised to read carefully the Tender Offer Memorandum for full details of, and information on the procedures for participating in, the Offer.

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Requests for information in relation to the Offer should be directed to:

THE DEALER MANAGERS

HSBC Bank plc

J.P. Morgan Securities plc

8 Canada Square

25 Bank Street

London E14 5HQ

Canary Wharf

United Kingdom

London E14 5JP

United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 20 7992 6237

Attention: Liability Management

Telephone: +44 20 7134 2468

Email: LM_EMEA@hsbc.com

Attention: EMEA Liability Management Group

Email: liability_management_EMEA@jpmorgan.com

Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc

25 Cabot Square

Canary Wharf

London E14 4QA

United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 20 7677 5040

Attention: Liability Management Team

Email: liabilitymanagementeurope@morganstanley.com

Requests for information in relation to the procedures for tendering Notes in, and for any documents or

materials relating to, the Offer should be directed to:

THE TENDER AGENT

Kroll Issuer Services Limited

The Shard

32 London Bridge Street

London SE1 9SG

United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 20 7704 0880

Attention: Owen Morris

Email: justgroup@is.kroll.com

Website: https://deals.is.kroll.com/justgroup

This announcement is made by Just Group plc and contains information that qualified or may have qualified as inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (UK MAR), encompassing information relating to the Offer described above. For the purposes of UK MAR and the Implementing Technical Standards, this announcement is made by Simon Watson, Company Secretary at the Offeror and Hilary Black, Senior Assistant Company Secretary at the Offeror.

DISCLAIMER

This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender Offer Memorandum. This announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum contain important information which should be read carefully before any decision is made with respect to the Offer. Any Noteholder who is in any doubt as to the action it should take, is recommended to seek its own financial and legal advice, including as to any tax consequences, immediately from its broker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other independent financial, tax or legal adviser. Any individual or company whose Notes are held on its behalf by a broker, dealer, bank, custodian, trust company or other nominee must contact such entity if it wishes to tender such Notes in the Offer. None of the Company, the Dealer Managers or the Tender Agent makes any recommendation whether Noteholders should tender Notes in the Offer.

OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS

The distribution of this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession this announcement and/or the Tender Offer Memorandum come(s) are required by each of the Company, the Dealer Managers and the Tender Agent to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions. Neither this announcement nor the Tender Offer Memorandum

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constitutes an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell Notes (and tenders of Notes in the Offer will not be accepted from Noteholders) in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. In those jurisdictions where the securities, blue sky or other laws require the Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer and any Dealer Manager or any of its affiliates is such a licensed broker or dealer in any such jurisdiction, the Offer shall be deemed to be made on behalf of the Company by such Dealer Manager or such affiliate (as the case may be) in such jurisdiction.

United States. The Offer is not being made, and will not be made, directly or indirectly, in or into, or by use of the mails of, or by any means or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce of, or of any facilities of a national securities exchange of, the United States. This includes, but is not limited to, facsimile transmission, electronic mail, telex, telephone, the internet and other forms of electronic communication. The Notes may not be tendered in the Offer by any such use, means, instrumentality or facility from or within the United States or by persons located or resident in the United States. Accordingly, copies of this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum and any other documents or materials relating to the Offer are not being, and must not be, directly or indirectly, mailed or otherwise transmitted, distributed or forwarded (including, without limitation, by custodians, nominees or trustees) in or into the United States or to any persons located or resident in the United States. Any purported tender of Notes in the Offer resulting directly or indirectly from a violation of these restrictions will be invalid and any purported tender of Notes made by a person located in the United States or any agent, fiduciary or other intermediary acting on a non-discretionary basis for a principal giving instructions from within the United States will be invalid and will not be accepted.

Each holder of Notes participating in the Offer will represent that it is not located in the United States and is not participating in the Offer from the United States, or it is acting on a non-discretionary basis for a principal located outside the United States that is not giving an order to participate in the Offer from the United States. For the purposes of the above paragraph, United States means the United States of America, its territories and possessions (including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana Islands), any state of the United States of America and the District of Columbia.

United Kingdom. The communication of this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum and any other documents or materials relating to the Offer is not being made and such documents and/or materials have not been approved by an authorised person for the purposes of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Accordingly, such documents and/or materials are not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, the general public in the United Kingdom. The communication of such documents and/or materials as a financial promotion is only being made to those persons in the United Kingdom falling within the definition of investment professionals (as defined in Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (as amended, the Financial Promotion Order)) or within Article 43 of the Financial Promotion Order, or to any other persons to whom it may otherwise lawfully be made under the Financial Promotion Order.

Italy. None of the Offer, this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum or any other document or materials relating to the Offer have been or will be submitted to the clearance procedures of the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) pursuant to Italian laws and regulations. The Offer is being carried out in Italy as an exempted offer pursuant to article 101-bis, paragraph 3-bis of the Legislative Decree No. 58 of 24 February 1998, as amended (the Financial Services Act) and article 35-bis, paragraph 4 of CONSOB Regulation No. 11971 of 14 May 1999, as amended. Accordingly, Noteholders or beneficial owners of the Notes that are located in Italy can tender Notes for purchase in the Offer through authorised persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in the Republic of Italy in accordance with the Financial Services Act, CONSOB Regulation No. 20307 of 15 February 2018, as amended, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of 1 September 1993, as amended) and in compliance with any other applicable laws and regulations and with any requirements imposed by CONSOB or any other Italian authority.

Each intermediary must comply with the applicable laws and regulations concerning information duties vis-à-vis its clients in connection with the Notes or the Offer.

France. The Offer is not being made, directly or indirectly, to the public in the Republic of France (France). None of this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum or any other document or material relating to the Offer have only been and shall only be distributed in France to qualified investors as defined in Article 2(e) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, as amended. Neither this announcement nor the Tender Offer Memorandum have been or will be submitted for clearance to nor approved by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.

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