appScatter Group PLC Completion of Acquisition and Issue of Equity (3428T)

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RNS Number : 3428T

appScatter Group PLC

03 July 2018

3 July 2018

appScatter Group plc

("appScatter" or the "Company")

Completion of Acquisition of Priori Data GmbH and Issue of Equity

appScatter Group plc (AIM: APPS), the scalable business-to-business ('B2B') Software as a Service ('SaaS') platform that allows users to distribute and manage their apps on multiple app stores around the world, is pleased to announce that the Company has completed the of the acquisition of Priori Data GmbH ("Priori"). appScatter announced on 26 June 2018 that it had entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement (the "Acquisition Agreement") to acquire 100 per cent. of the share capital of Priori (the "Acquisition").

The total consideration for the Acquisition is GBP13.5 million, consisting of GBP1.8 million in cash (the "Cash Consideration") and GBP11.7 million by way of the issue of a total of 16,667,157 new ordinary shares in the Company (the "Consideration Shares") at an effective issue price of 70 pence per ordinary share ("Ordinary Shares").

As a result, the Company has today issued 16,290,325 of the Consideration Shares (the "Initial Consideration Shares") and 2,318,643 new ordinary shares in the Company pursuant to the conditional fund raise to raise gross proceeds of GBP1.6 million at a price of 70 pence per ordinary share announced by the Company on 26 June 2018 (the "Fund Raise Shares").

The issue of a further 376,832 Consideration Shares (representing EUR300,000 in issue value) will be deferred until the determination of the completion accounts and the net assets statement in connection with the Acquisition which will be due forty five days after completion (the "Deferred Shares").

The Company had previously announced that it had made arrangements for a general private placing of its Ordinary Shares, at a price of 70 pence per Ordinary Share, to be made available to investors prior to completion of the Acquisition. The Company is pleased to announce that it has extended the period for such a private placing of its Ordinary Shares, at a price of 70 pence per Ordinary Share, to 31 July 2018.

Application has been made for the Initial Consideration Shares and the Fund Raise Shares (together the "New Ordinary Shares"), which will rank pari passu with the Company's existing ordinary shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). Dealings in the New Ordinary Shares are expected to commence at 8.00 a.m. on 6 July 2018.

Total Voting Rights

On Admission, the Company will have 86,179,429 ordinary shares of 5 pence each in issue. No ordinary shares are held in treasury. The figure of 86,179,429 may be used by the Company's shareholders as the denominator in the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Chief Executive Officer, Philip Marcella, commented:

"I am delighted to have reached revised terms for the acquisition by appScatter of Priori. I strongly believe that the combination of the appScatter platform and the data held by Priori will significantly advance the Company's development and positioning. We are already collaborating with Priori on several new high profile clients - with growing interest in the abilities of the enlarged group from key potential enterprise customers. "

For enquiries, please contact:

 
appScatter Group plc                         Tel: [phone] 
 Philip Marcella, Chief Executive Officer     www.appscatter.com 
FTI Consulting                               Tel: [phone] 
 Financial Public Relations                   [e-mail] 
 Matt Dixon / Adam Davidson / Niamh Fogarty 
 
 
Smith & Williamson Corporate Finance Limited  Tel: [phone] 
 Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker            www.smithandwilliamson.com 
 Azhic Basirov / Ben Jeynes / David Jones 
 Stifel 
 Joint Broker 
 Fred Walsh / Neil Shah / Ben Maddison         Tel: [phone] 
                                               www.stifel.com 
 

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About appScatter Group plc

appScatter is a scalable B2B SaaS platform that allows paying users to distribute their apps to, and manage their apps on, multiple app stores. Additionally, the centralised platform enables app developers and publishers to manage and track performance of their own and competing apps across all of the app stores on the platform.

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