TR-1: Notification of Major Interest in Shares

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing shares to which voting rights areattached: ii

Exova Group PLC

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

✓

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to thenotification obligation: iii

Mubadala Development Company PJSC and its subsidiary undertakings

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):iv

Fifty Second Investment Company LLC (a company incorporated in Abu Dhabi with commercial license number 1192754)

5. Date of the transaction and date onwhich the threshold is crossed orreached: v

8 September 2016

6. Date on which issuer notified:

12 September 2016

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed orreached: vi, vii

From above 7% to below 7%

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix

Class/type ofshares

if possible usingthe ISIN CODE

Situation previousto the triggeringtransaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

NumberofShares

NumberofVotingRights

Numberof shares

Number of votingrights

% of voting rights x

Direct

Direct xi

Indirect xii

Direct

Indirect

17,580,218

17,580,218

0

0

17,439,239

0

6.96%

Ordinary Shares of £0.01 each

GB00BKY7HG11

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Expirationdate xiii

Exercise/Conversion Period xiv

Number of votingrights that may beacquired if theinstrument isexercised/ converted.

% of votingrights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Exercise price

Expiration date xvii

Exercise/Conversion period xviii

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights xix, xx

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

17,439,239

6.96%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or thefinancial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi

The voting rights are indirectly managed and controlled by Mubadala Development Company PJSC through Fifty Second Investment Company LLC under the following chain of controlled undertakings:

· Mubadala Development Company PJSC (parent)

· MDC Capital LLC (majority owned subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company PJSC)

· Fifty First Investment Company LLC (majority owned subsidiary of MDC Capital LLC)

· Fifty Second Investment Company LLC (majority owned subsidiary of Fifty First Investment Company LLC)

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will ceaseto hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to holdvoting rights:

13. Additional information:

14. Contact name:

Khaled Awad

15. Contact telephone number:

+971 2 413 1819