Asia Resource Minerals PLC Publication of Response Document (8187P)

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RNS Number : 8187P

Asia Resource Minerals PLC

10 June 2015

NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART IN, INTO OR FROM ANY JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE RELEVANT LAWS OR REGULATIONS OF THAT JURISDICTION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

10 JUNE 2015

Asia Resource Minerals plc ("ARMS" or the "Company")

Publication of Response Document

The Board of ARMS announces the publication, by ARMS, of a response circular to shareholders in respect of the cash offer made today by Asia Coal Energy Ventures Limited ("ACE") to acquire the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of ARMS not already owned by funds managed by Argyle Street Management Limited (the "ACE Cash Offer").

The response circular is published in accordance with Rule 25.1(a) of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers and a copy will be posted or otherwise made available to ARMS shareholders today along with the ACE offer document.

The response circular includes a notice convening a general meeting for the purposes of voting on a resolution to be put to independent shareholders of ARMS under Rule 16 of the Takeover Code in connection with the ACE Cash Offer. The general meeting will be held at SCI, 14-15 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PS, United Kingdom on 29 June 2015, immediately following the conclusion of ARMS' Annual General Meeting (which is scheduled to take place at 1.00 p.m.).

A copy of the response circular (and the ACE offer document) will be available free of charge for inspection at www.asiarmplc.com while the ACE Cash Offer remains open for acceptance, subject to certain restrictions relating to persons in any jurisdiction where release, publication or distribution of this document would constitute a violation of the securities law of such jurisdiction.

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Enquiries

 
  Asia Resource 
    Minerals plc 
 
    Sean Wade 
    [phone] 
    7511 
 
    RLM Finsbury 
 
    Ed Simpkins / 
    Charles O'Brien 
    [phone] 
    3801 
 
    Rothschild (Financial 
    Adviser) 
 
    Roger Ewart Smith 
    Sam Critchlow 
    [phone] 
    5000 
 

Disclosure requirements of the Takeover Code (the "Code")

Under Rule 8.3(a) of the Code, any person who is interested in 1% or more of any class of relevant securities of an offeree company or of any securities exchange offeror (being any offeror other than an offeror in respect of which it has been announced that its offer is, or is likely to be, solely in cash) must make an Opening Position Disclosure following the commencement of the offer period and, if later, following the announcement in which any securities exchange offeror is first identified. An Opening Position Disclosure must contain details of the person's interests and short positions in, and rights to subscribe for, any relevant securities of each of (i) the offeree company and (ii) any securities exchange offeror(s). An Opening Position Disclosure by a person to whom Rule 8.3(a) applies must be made by no later than 3.30 pm (London time) on the 10th business day following the commencement of the offer period and, if appropriate, by no later than 3.30 pm (London time) on the 10th business day following the announcement in which any securities exchange offeror is first identified. Relevant persons who deal in the relevant securities of the offeree company or of a securities exchange offeror prior to the deadline for making an Opening Position Disclosure must instead make a Dealing Disclosure.

Under Rule 8.3(b) of the Code, any person who is, or becomes, interested in 1% or more of any class of relevant securities of the offeree company or of any securities exchange offeror must make a Dealing Disclosure if the person deals in any relevant securities of the offeree company or of any securities exchange offeror. A Dealing Disclosure must contain details of the dealing concerned and of the person's interests and short positions in, and rights to subscribe for, any relevant securities of each of (i) the offeree company and (ii) any securities exchange offeror, save to the extent that these details have previously been disclosed under Rule 8. A Dealing Disclosure by a person to whom Rule 8.3(b) applies must be made by no later than 3.30 pm (London time) on the business day following the date of the relevant dealing.

If two or more persons act together pursuant to an agreement or understanding, whether formal or informal, to acquire or control an interest in relevant securities of an offeree company or a securities exchange offeror, they will be deemed to be a single person for the purpose of Rule 8.3.

Opening Position Disclosures must also be made by the offeree company and by any offeror and Dealing Disclosures must also be made by the offeree company, by any offeror and by any persons acting in concert with any of them (see Rules 8.1, 8.2 and 8.4).

Details of the offeree and offeror companies in respect of whose relevant securities Opening Position Disclosures and Dealing Disclosures must be made can be found in the Disclosure Table on the Takeover Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk, including details of the number of relevant securities in issue, when the offer period commenced and when any offeror was first identified. You should contact the Panel's Market Surveillance Unit on [phone] if you are in any doubt as to whether you are required to make an Opening Position Disclosure or a Dealing Disclosure.

Financial Adviser

N.M. Rothschild & Sons Limited ("Rothschild"), which is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority in the United Kingdom, is acting exclusively for the Company and for no one else in connection with the subject matter of this announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to its clients or for providing advice in connection with the subject matter of this announcement.

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