Result of Placing under Placing Programme (983633)

 
 AEW UK REIT plc (AEWU) 
Result of Placing under Placing Programme 
 
26-Feb-2020 / 07:00 GMT/BST 
Dissemination of a Regulatory Announcement that contains inside information 
according to REGULATION (EU) No 596/2014 (MAR), transmitted by EQS Group. 
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. 
 
 NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY 
OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES, ANY MEMBER STATE OF THE 
  EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (OTHER THAN THE UNITED KINGDOM), AUSTRALIA, CANADA, 
SOUTH AFRICA, JAPAN OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE IT IS UNLAWFUL TO DO SO. 
 
               26 February 2020 
 
       AEW UK REIT Plc (the "Company") 
 
       Result of Placing under Placing Programme 
 
    Further to the announcement made by the Company on 19 February 2020, the 
Company today announces that it has successfully raised gross proceeds of GBP7 
million pursuant to the Placing under its Placing Programme which expires on 
               28 February 2020. 
 
 Accordingly, an aggregate of 7,216,495 new Ordinary Shares have been issued 
        and allotted conditionally upon admission at a price of 97 pence per 
               Ordinary Share. 
 
     Applications have been made for the admission of 7,216,495 new Ordinary 
Shares to listing on the premium listing segment of the Official List and to 
trading on the Main Market of London Stock Exchange Group plc ("Admission"). 
It is expected that Admission will become effective and that dealings in the 
         new Ordinary Shares will commence at 8.00 a.m. on 28 February 2020. 
 
   Following Admission, the Company will have 158,774,746 Ordinary Shares in 
  issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights of the Company will be 
  158,774,746 and this figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator 
   for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to 
  notify their interest, or a change to their interest in, the Company under 
               the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules. 
 
For further information, please contact: 
 
                        AEW UK 
                    Alex Short          [e-mail] 
                                          [phone] 
                   Laura Elkin         [e-mail] 
 
                                          [phone] 
               Nicki Gladstone [e-mail] 
                                          [phone] 
             Company Secretary 
  Link Company Matters Limited     [e-mail] 
                                          [phone] 
 
                     TB Cardew               [e-mail] 
                    Ed Orlebar           [phone] 
                Lucas Bramwell           [phone] 
 
               Liberum Capital 
Gillian Martin / Owen Matthews           [phone] 
 
LEI: 21380073LDXHV2LP5K50 
 
 This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 
  of EU Regulation 596/2014. Upon the publication of this announcement, this 
            inside information is now considered to be in the public domain. 
 
               A copy of the Prospectus is available for inspection at: 
       www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm [1] as well as on the Company's website: 
               https://www.aewukreit.com/ [2]. 
 
     Terms used but not defined in this announcement shall have the meanings 
               given to such terms in the Prospectus dated 1 March 2019. 
 
               Important Notice 
 
  This announcement has been issued by and is the sole responsibility of the 
Company. Liberum Capital Limited ("Liberum"), is authorised and regulated by 
   the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom, and is acting only 
            for the Company in connection with the matters described in this 
        announcement and are not acting for or advising any other person, or 
treating any other person as its client, in relation thereto and will not be 
  responsible for providing the regulatory protection afforded to clients of 
       each of them or advice to any other person in relation to the matters 
   contained herein. Liberum, nor any of its or their respective affiliates, 
              directors, officers, employees, advisers or agents accepts any 
  responsibility or liability whatsoever for this announcement, its contents 
 or otherwise in connection with it or any other information relating to the 
         Company, whether written, oral or in a visual or electronic format. 
 
       Neither this announcement nor the information contained herein is for 
      publication, distribution or release, in whole or in part, directly or 
 indirectly, in or into or from the United States (including its territories 
and possessions), any member state of the European Economic Area (other than 
the United Kingdom), Australia, Canada, South Africa, Japan or to any person 
in any of those jurisdictions or any other jurisdiction where to do so would 
 constitute a violation of the relevant laws of such jurisdiction. The offer 
            of Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Placing (the "Offer") and the 
       distribution of this announcement may be restricted by law in certain 
    jurisdictions and persons into whose possession this announcement or any 
        document or other information referred to herein comes should inform 
    themselves about and observe any such restriction. Any failure to comply 
with these restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws of 
               any such jurisdiction. 
 
        This announcement does not contain or constitute an offer of, or the 
solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe for, the securities referred to 
      herein to any person in any jurisdiction, including the United States, 
  Australia, Canada, South Africa or Japan or in any jurisdiction to whom or 
               in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. 
 
The securities to which this announcement relates have not been and will not 
        be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the 
  "Securities Act") or with any regulating authority or under any applicable 
securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States, and 
may not be offered, sold, pledged or otherwise transferred within the United 
       States or to US persons unless registered under the Securities Act or 
      pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the 
      registration requirements of the Securities Act and in compliance with 
applicable state law. There will be no public offer of the securities in the 
   United States. The securities referred to herein have not been registered 
  under the applicable securities laws of Australia, Canada, South Africa or 
 Japan and, subject to certain exceptions, may not be offered or sold within 
    Australia, Canada, South Africa or Japan or to any national, resident or 
               citizen of Australia, Canada, South Africa or Japan. 
 
ISIN:           GB00BWD24154 
Category Code:  MSCM 
TIDM:           AEWU 
LEI Code:       21380073LDXHV2LP5K50 
OAM Categories: 2.2. Inside information 
                3.1. Additional regulated information required to be 
                disclosed under the laws of a Member State 
Sequence No.:   48891 
EQS News ID:    983633 
 
End of Announcement EQS News Service 
 
 
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