Orexo appoints Nomination Committee and publishes financial calendar 2012/2013


Prior to the Annual General Meeting 2013, Orexo appoints a Nomination Committee
which represents approximately 49 percent of the number of shares and votes in
the company based on the last known shareholder information.

The Nomination Committee, whose tasks include providing proposals to the General
Meeting regarding Chairman of the Meeting, Board members, Chairman of the Board,
fees for the board members, any remuneration for committee work, proposal for
and fees to the company’s auditor as well as principles for composition of the
Nomination Committee, comprises:

  · Ulrik Spork, Novo A/S, also Chairman of the Nomination Committee
  · Björn Odlander, HealthCap
  · Claus Berner Møller, Arbejdsmarkedets Tillaegspension (ATP)
  · Martin Nicklasson, Chairman of the Board of Orexo

The Nomination Committee’s proposals will be presented in the Notice to the
Annual General Meeting 2013 and on Orexo’s web site, http://www.orexo.com.

Shareholders who want to submit proposals to the Nomination Committee, can do
this by sending an e-mail to beata.augenblick@orexo.com (subject “Nomination
Committee”) or by letter posted to “Orexo’s Nomination Committee,” Orexo AB, Box
303, SE-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden, by February 15, 2013 at the latest.

The Annual General Meeting 2013 in Orexo will be held on Thursday, April 11,
2013 at 5:00pm CET in Uppsala. Shareholders who want to have a matter addressed
at the Annual General Meeting 2013 must submit such a proposal to the same
address as above (subject “Annual General Meeting 2013” for the e-mail and the
letter, respectively) in sufficient time prior to the notice convening the
Annual General Meeting, which is expected to occur at the beginning of March
2013.

Future information reporting dates from Orexo:

+----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interim Report January – September 2012 |October 25, 2012             |
+----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Year-End Report 2012                    |January 31, 2013             |
+----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Annual General Meeting 2013             |April 11, 2013, at 5:00pm CET|
+----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interim Report January – March, 2013    |April 26, 2013               |
+----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interim Report January – June, 2013     |July 12, 2013                |
+----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interim Report January – September, 2013|October 23, 2013             |
+----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+

For more information, please contact:
Carl-Johan Blomberg, SVP och CFO
Tel: +46 (0)706-33 67 11
E-mail: carl-johan.blomberg@orexo.com

Beata Augenblick, Investor Relations
Tel: +46 (0)706-22 59 93
E-mail: beata.augenblick@orexo.com

About Orexo
Orexo AB is an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company developing improved
treatments using proprietary drug delivery technology. Orexo’s expertise is
within the area of reformulation technologies and especially sublingual
formulations. The company has a portfolio of revenue-generating EU and US
approved products currently marketed under licence and a pipeline of several
reformulations of approved compounds for areas of unmet medical need. Orexo also
has collaboration projects with several international pharma companies. Orexo
AB, with its headquarters in Sweden, is listed on NASDAQ-OMX. The largest
shareholders are Novo A/S and HealthCap. More information can be found at
www.orexo.com.

Note
Orexo AB (publ) discloses the information provided in this press release
pursuant to the Securities Markets Act. The information was provided for public
release on October 11, 2012 at 09.00a.m. CET. This press release has been
prepared in both Swedish and English. In the event of any discrepancy in the
content of the two versions, the Swedish version shall take precedence.

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