Sarissa Capital Has Commenced the Process to Call a Special Meeting of Amarin Shareholders to Remove and Replace Certain Board Members

Sarissa Capital Management LP (“Sarissa”) today made the following statement regarding its ongoing discussions with Amarin Corporation plc (NASDAQ: AMRN) regarding board representation:

Amarin’s board seems to be trying to outdo the misguided leadership of the Roman Emperor Nero who played his lyre while Rome was engulfed in flames. Their “imperial” attitude and inaction is the problem. We, along with all shareholders, must try to fix the company.

This year alone, Amarin shareholders have lost over $850 million as the stock has fallen 64% year to date.* Since the annual meeting, at which we believe shareholders loudly voiced their concerns with leadership and the direction of the company, Amarin’s stock has fallen 38% and shareholders have lost over $280 million.^† Notably, at the annual meeting, nearly half of votes by shareholders for directors up for re-election this year, which included those in leadership roles, were “against” or “abstentions.”

Sarissa, the largest shareholder of Amarin and a sophisticated institutional investor with a long history of shareholder value creation in healthcare companies, wants to help restore lost value and guide the company through this critical period. We fear that the continued mismanagement of the business will result in further permanent destruction of shareholder value. We believe Amarin’s current trajectory risks the company running out of cash and will result in the need to raise capital at a terrible valuation, severely diluting existing shareholders and further destroying shareholder value.

As we have heard from many shareholders, Amarin appears to not share our collective sense of urgency. Sarissa has discussed with the company adding shareholder representatives to the board for many months, but the board appears to be running a dawdling process that seems to ignore the critical period facing the company. Even after the clear and loud vote by shareholders in June, the directors on Amarin’s board took more than twelve weeks to interview Sarissa board candidates, seemingly unable to prioritize the company over their summer schedules while destroying further shareholder value. The drawn-out process appears to us to embody the company’s lackadaisical and reactive management of shareholder capital.