AD HOC ANNOUNCEMENT PURSUANT TO ART. 53 LR Definitive agreements signed by a consortium of Heubach Group and SK Capital Partners to acquire Clariant’s Pigments businessEnterprise Value of CHF 805 million to CHF 855 million, representing a 10.7x to 11.4x stand-alone adjusted EBITDA multiple per April 2021 (LTM) depending on an earn-out payment of CHF 50 millionClariant will be reinvesting for a 20% ownership stake in the combined business Closing anticipated in the first half of 2022 Muttenz, Jun