DGAP-News: WILEX AG / Key word(s): Change of Personnel WILEX AG: WILEX AG plans change on Supervisory Board 06.04.2016 / 12:34 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESS RELEASE WILEX AG plans change on Supervisory Board - Andreas Krebs will step down from the Supervisory Board at his own request - Supervisory Board to have five members in future Munich, 6 April 2016 - WILEX AG (ISIN DE000A11QVV0 / WL6 / FSE) today announced its plan to reduce the number of Supervisory Board members from six to five. Long-standing member Andreas Krebs will step down from the Supervisory Board at his own request for professional reasons after this year's Annual General Meeting. Mr Krebs has been a member of the Supervisory Board of WILEX AG since 2010. Both the Supervisory Board and the Executive Management Board accept his decision with regret and thank him for his active support of the company. "On behalf of the WILEX Supervisory Board I would like to thank Mr Andreas Krebs for his valuable contribution to the company's continued development," said Professor Christof Hettich, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of WILEX AG. "Our collaboration on the Supervisory Board was constructive and cooperative at all times. We very much regret that Mr Krebs will be leaving us." The Company will avail itself of the new opportunities offered by German stock corporation law and propose to the Annual General Meeting to reduce the number of Supervisory Board members. The required amendment to the Articles of Association will be presented to the Annual General Meeting for approval on 13 May 2016. The agenda of the AGM will be published in the Federal Gazette on 6 April 2016. About WILEX and Heidelberg Pharma WILEX AG is a biopharmaceutical company which discontinued all clinical development activities at its Munich site and now exercises a holding function as the Group parent. Research and development focus on the operations of its subsidiary Heidelberg Pharma GmbH in Ladenburg, which primarily advances the development of the innovative ADC platform technology for Antibody-Targeted Amanitin Conjugates (ATAC technology) and provides preclinical drug research and development services. WILEX has the diagnostic and therapeutic drug candidates REDECTANE(R) and RENCAREX(R), which are available for out-licensing and further development in Phase III for external partners. WILEX is listed at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: ISIN DE000A11QVV0 / WKN A11QVV / Symbol WL6. More information is available at http://www.wilex.com.

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