Inspired Energy PLC Completion of £9.0 million Placing (5709J)

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Inspired Energy PLC

29 June 2017

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29 June 2017

Inspired Energy plc

("Inspired", or the "Company")

Completion of GBP9.0 million Placing

Posting of Shareholder Circular and Notice of General Meeting

Further to the announcement earlier this morning, Inspired (AIM: INSE), a leading energy procurement consultant to UK corporates, is pleased to announce that the Company has raised GBP9.0 million (gross) through a placing of new Ordinary Shares in the Company through a placing of 62,068,966 new Ordinary Shares ("Placing Shares") at 14.5 pence per Placing Share (the "Placing Price").

The Placing was significantly oversubscribed with a number of new and existing shareholders participating.

24,241,920 of the Placing Shares are being placed pursuant to existing authorities granted to the Directors at the Company's annual general meeting held on 20 June 2017 ("Firm Placing") and the balance of 37,827,046 Placing Shares are being placed conditional, inter alia, on the passing of the Resolutions being proposed at the General Meeting ("Conditional Placing").

The Acquisition and the Placing are each conditional upon, amongst other things, the passing of certain Resolutions at the General Meeting. However, the Acquisition and Firm Placing is not conditional upon approval of the Conditional Placing and there is, therefore, a possibility that the Acquisition may complete and the Firm Placing Shares might be issued but that the Conditional Placing Shares will not be issued.

Directors' participation in the Placing

The Company announces the following Directors of the Company have subscribed for shares in the Placing at the Placing Price as follows:

 
                                                  Shareholding                              Shareholding 
                                                on First Admission                            on Second 
                                                                                              Admission 
----------------  --------------  ---------  ----------------------  ----------------  --------------------- 
      Name            Current       Number      Number      Holding       Number          Number     Holding 
                    shareholding    of Firm    of Shares     (%)(1)    of Conditional    of Shares    (%)(2) 
                                    Placing                               Placing 
                                    Shares                                 Shares 
----------------  --------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ----------------  -----------  -------- 
 Mark 
  Dickinson 
  COO                    344,827        Nil       344,827       0.7           344,828      689,655      0.12 
----------------  --------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ----------------  -----------  -------- 
 Richard 
  Logan 
  Non-Executive 
  Director                   Nil        Nil           Nil       Nil           344,828      344,828      0.06 
----------------  --------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ----------------  -----------  -------- 
 

Notes:

1. The Group's share capital of 514,874,528 ordinary shares of 0.125p each as enlarged by the 24,241,920 Firm Placing Shares issued under the Firm Placing, which are expected to be admitted to trading on AIM on 4 July 2017.

2. The Group's share capital of 552,701,574 ordinary shares of 0.125p each as enlarged by the 37,827,046 Conditional Placing Shares issued under the Conditional Placing, which are expected to be admitted to trading on AIM on 18 July 2017, subject to shareholder approval at the General Meeting to be held on 17 July 2017.

Posting of Shareholder Circular and Notice of General Meeting

A circular to Shareholders ("Circular") will be posted later today, convening a general meeting of the Company to be held at the offices of Gateley Plc, Ship Canal House, 98 King St, Manchester M2 4WU at 10.00 a.m. on 17 July 2017 and will be available to download on the Company's website (www.inspiredplc.co.uk).

Application for admission

Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the Firm Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is expected that First Admission will become effective and that dealings in the Firm Placing Shares will commence on 4 July 2017.

Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the Conditional Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is expected that Second Admission will become effective and that dealings in the Conditional Placing Shares will commence on 18 July 2017, subject to the passing of the Resolutions at the GM.

Total voting rights

Following the First Admission but before the Second Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 514,874,528 Ordinary Shares, with each Ordinary Share carrying the right to one vote. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. This figure of 514,874,528 Ordinary Shares may therefore be used by shareholders in the Company, between the dates of First Admission and Second Admission, as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules ("DTRs").

Following the Second Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 552,701,574 Ordinary Shares, with each Ordinary Share carrying the right to one vote. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. This figure of 552,701,574 Ordinary Shares may therefore be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the DTRs.

Following the Second Admission, and subject to shareholder approval, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 552,701,574 Ordinary Shares, with each Ordinary Share carrying the right to one vote.

Unless the context otherwise requires, defined terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Circular.

Commenting on the proposed acquisition, Janet Thornton, Chief Executive of Inspired, said: "The Board is delighted to see the significant support we have received from both existing and new institutional investors. We look forward to completing the acquisition of Horizon and moving forward to the next stage of our fast growing evolution."

Enquiries:

 
Inspired Energy plc 
 Janet Thornton, Chief Executive     [phone] 
 Paul Connor, Finance Director       www.inspiredenergy.co.uk 
Shore Capital (Nomad, Joint 
 Broker and Bookrunner) 
 Bidhi Bhoma 
 Edward Mansfield 
 James Wolfe                        [phone] 
Panmure Gordon (Joint Broker) 
 Ben Thorne 
 Erik Anderson 
 James Strearns                    [phone] 
Gable Communications               [phone] 
 Justine James                      [phone] 
 John Bick                          [e-mail] 
 

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