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Valneva Announces Closing of Approximately $102.0 Million Global Offering

Valneva SE (Nasdaq: VALN; Euronext Paris: VLA) (the “Company”), a specialty vaccine company, announced today the closing which occurred on November 2, 2021 of its previously announced global offering to specified categories of investors of an aggregate 5,175,000 new ordinary shares, after full exercise of the overallotment option granted to the underwriters (the “Option”), consisting of a public offering of 354,060 American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”), each representing two ordinary shares, in the United States at an offering price of $39.42 per ADS (the “U.S. Offering”), and a concurrent private placement of 4,466,880 ordinary shares in Europe (including France) and other countries outside of the United States at the corresponding offering price of €17.00 per ordinary share (the “European Private Placement”, and, together with the U.S. Offering, the “Global Offering”). Aggregate gross proceeds of the Global Offering, after full exercise of the Option and before deducting underwriting commissions and estimated expenses payable by the Company, were approximately $102.0 million (€88.0 million).

Valneva’s ordinary shares are listed on Euronext Paris under the symbol “VLA” and its ADSs are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “VALN”.

Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, Guggenheim Securities and Bryan, Garnier & Co. acted as joint bookrunners for the Global Offering.

The Company has filed a registration statement on Form F-1, including a prospectus, relating to these securities with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), which was declared effective by the SEC on October 28, 2021. The offering was made by means of a prospectus and copies of the prospectus relating to and describing the terms of the Global Offering may be obtained from Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Attn: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, telephone: 866-471-2526, facsimile: 212-902-9316, e-mail: prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com or Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10022, or by telephone at +1 877 821 7388 or by email at Prospectus_Department@Jefferies.com.

No prospectus subject to approval by the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers was filed in France in connection with the Global Offering.

About Valneva SE

Valneva is a specialty vaccine company focused on the development and commercialization of prophylactic vaccines for infectious diseases with significant unmet medical need. The Company takes a highly specialized and targeted approach to vaccine development and then applies its deep understanding of vaccine science to develop prophylactic vaccines addressing these diseases. Valneva has leveraged its expertise and capabilities both to successfully commercialize two vaccines and to rapidly advance a broad range of vaccine candidates into and through the clinic, including candidates against Lyme disease, the chikungunya virus and COVID-19.