John Laing Environmental Assets Grp Result of Placing (2796W)

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RNS Number : 2796W

John Laing Environmental Assets Grp

08 February 2017

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8 February 2017

John Laing Environmental Assets Group Limited

Result of Placing

Further to the announcement on 19 January 2017, the Board of John Laing Environmental Assets Group Limited ("JLEN" or the "Company") announces that it has raised GBP55.55 million through the issue of 55,000,000 New Ordinary Shares at a price of 101 pence per New Ordinary Share ("Issue Price"). The Placing was significantly oversubscribed and, in light of this demand, the Board has increased the size of the Placing to accommodate a proportion of the additional demand.

Any Placing applications at a price below the Issue Price have not been accepted and Placing applications at the Issue Price have been scaled back in accordance with the terms of the Placing.

JLEN intends to use the proceeds to fund a number of acquisitions arising from near term opportunities in the solar, wind and biomass sectors, and also to clear its revolving credit facility.

Application will be made to the Financial Conduct Authority for admission of the New Ordinary Shares to the premium segment of the Official List and to the London Stock Exchange plc for admission to trading of the New Ordinary Shares on its main market for listed securities ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will become effective on or around 13 February 2017 and that dealings in the New Ordinary Shares will commence at that time.

The New Ordinary Shares will, when issued, be credited as fully paid and rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company, including the right to receive all future dividends and distributions declared, made or paid, save for the dividend for the quarter to 31 December 2016 which is expected to be paid on 23 February 2017.

Immediately following Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 339,642,078 Ordinary Shares with voting rights. This figure may be used by shareholders in determining the denominator for the calculation by which they will establish if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Terms used in this announcement shall, unless the context otherwise requires, bear the meanings given to them in the prospectus published by the Company on 16 December 2016 which can be found on JLEN's website at www.jlen.com.

For further information please contact:

 
 John Laing Capital Management 
  Limited 
  David Hardy 
  Chris Tanner                    [phone] 
 Winterflood Securities 
  Limited 
  Neil Langford 
  Chris Mills                       [phone] 
 

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