Low & Bonar PLC Results of Placing and Open Offer (4153Q)

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RNS Number : 4153Q

Low & Bonar PLC

19 February 2019

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THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS AN ADVERTISEMENT AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A PROSPECTUS OR PROSPECTUS EQUIVALENT DOCUMENT. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL CONSTITUTE AN OFFERING OF SHARES. NOTHING IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT SHOULD BE INTERPRETED AS A TERM OR CONDITION OF THE NEW SHARE ISSUE. ANY DECISION TO PURCHASE, SUBSCRIBE FOR, OTHERWISE ACQUIRE, SELL OR OTHERWISE DISPOSE OF SHARES MUST BE MADE ONLY ON THE BASIS OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN AND INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE INTO THE PROSPECTUS. COPIES OF THE PROSPECTUS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE HEAD OFFICE OF LOW & BONAR PLC AND ON ITS WEBSITE AT WWW.LOWANDBONAR.COM.

19 February 2019

Low & Bonar PLC (or the Company)

Results of Placing and Open Offer

On 30 January 2019, the Company announced details of a proposed Placing and Open Offer and Firm Placing (the New Share Issue) to raise gross proceeds of GBP54 million (GBP50 million net of estimated commissions, fees and expenses), by the issue of up to 359,649,707 New Shares at 15.0 pence per New Share. The Placing and Open Offer and Firm Placing consists of a Placing and Open Offer of 327,021,479 Open Offer Shares and a Firm Placing of 32,628,228 Firm Placed Shares.

The Open Offer closed for acceptances at 11:00 a.m. on 18 February 2019. The Company has received valid acceptances in respect of 270,843,426 Open Offer Shares under the Open Offer. This represents approximately 82.82 per cent. of the Open Offer Shares offered pursuant to the Open Offer. Accordingly, the remaining 56,178,053 Open Offer Shares, representing approximately 17.18 per cent. of the Open Offer Shares, will be allocated to the Placees with whom the Open Offer Shares had been conditionally placed under the Placing.

The New Share Issue remains conditional on, among other things, the approval by the Company's shareholders of the resolutions (as set out in the Notice of General Meeting contained within the combined prospectus and circular published by the Company on 30 January 2019 (the Prospectus)) at the General Meeting to be held at 11:00 a.m. today. The Company will announce the results of the General Meeting as soon as practicable after the meeting concludes. It is expected that Admission will become effective, and that dealings in the New Shares on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities will commence, at 8.00 a.m. on 20 February 2019.

Directors' and PDMR participation in the New Share Issue

The following Directors and PDMRs (and/or their associated persons) participated in the New Share Issue:

 
 Name                  Existing shareholding   Number of     Resultant       Resultant 
                                                New Shares    shareholding    shareholding 
                                                acquired      on Admission    on Admission 
                                                                              (%) 
 Daniel Dayan                        368,000       364,560         732,560           0.11% 
                      ----------------------  ------------  --------------  -------------- 
 Philip de Klerk                     100,000        99,065         199,065           0.03% 
                      ----------------------  ------------  --------------  -------------- 
 Trudy Schoolenberg                   72,462        71,785         144,247           0.02% 
                      ----------------------  ------------  --------------  -------------- 
 Kevin Matthews                       34,537        34,214          68,751           0.01% 
                      ----------------------  ------------  --------------  -------------- 
 Mike Powell*                         39,000        38,635          77,635           0.01% 
                      ----------------------  ------------  --------------  -------------- 
 Peter Bertram                        75,150        74,447         149,597           0.02% 
                      ----------------------  ------------  --------------  -------------- 
 Jan de Jong                          11,500        11,392          22,892          <0.01% 
                      ----------------------  ------------  --------------  -------------- 
 

* Held and beneficially owned by his wife.

Capitalised terms not defined herein have the meanings given to them in the Prospectus, which is available on the Company's website (www.lowandbonar.com).

Enquiries:

 
 Low & Bonar PLC 
  Philip de Klerk (Group CEO) 
  Ian Ashton (Group CFO)                            020 7535 3180 
 Peel Hunt LLP (Sponsor, Broker, Sole Bookrunner 
  to the Company) 
  Alastair Rae 
  Mike Bell 
  Charlie Batten 
  Ed Allsopp                                        020 7418 8900 
 Canaccord Genuity Limited (Co-Lead Manager 
  to the Company) 
  Bobbie Hilliam (Corporate Broking) 
  Alex Aylen (Sales)                                0207 523 8000 
 Rothschild & Co (Financial Adviser to the 
  Company) 
  Stuart Vincent 
  William Marshall                                  020 7280 5000 
 Instinctif Partners 
  Matthew Smallwood 
  Rosie Driscoll                                    020 7457 2020 
 

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

This announcement has been issued by and is the sole responsibility of the Company. This announcement is not a prospectus but an advertisement and investors should not acquire any Shares referred to in this announcement except on the basis of the information contained in the Prospectus published by the Company in connection with the New Share Issue.

Copies of the Prospectus are available from the head office of the Company and on the Company's website at www.lowandbonar.com provided that the Prospectus is not, subject to certain exceptions, available (through the website or otherwise) to Shareholders in the United States of America or any other Excluded Territory. Neither the content of the Company's website nor any website accessible by hyperlinks on the Company's website is incorporated in, or forms part of, this announcement. The Prospectus provides further details of the Shares being offered pursuant to the New Share Issue.

This announcement is for information purposes only and is not intended to and does not constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to purchase or subscribe for, or any solicitation to purchase or subscribe for Shares in any jurisdiction. No offer or invitation to purchase or subscribe for, or any solicitation to purchase or subscribe for New Shares will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer or solicitation is unlawful. The information contained in this announcement is not for release, publication or distribution to persons in the United States or any other Excluded Territory, and should not be distributed, forwarded to or transmitted in or into any jurisdiction, where to do so might constitute a violation of local securities laws or regulations.

This announcement is not an offer of securities for sale in the United States. The Shares and the Application Forms have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or under any securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States and may not be offered, sold, taken up, exercised, resold, renounced, transferred or delivered, directly or indirectly, within the United States except pursuant to an applicable exemption from or in a transaction not subject to the registration requirements of the Securities Act and in compliance with any applicable securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States. There will be no public offer of the Shares in the United States.

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This announcement does not constitute a recommendation concerning any investor's options with respect to the New Share Issue. The price and value of securities can go down as well as up. Past performance is not a guide to future performance. The contents of this announcement are not to be construed as legal, business, financial or tax advice. Each Shareholder or prospective investor should consult his, her or its own legal adviser, business adviser, financial adviser or tax adviser for legal, financial, business or tax advice.

Notice to all investors

Each of Peel Hunt LLP (Peel Hunt), Canaccord Genuity Limited (Canaccord) and N M Rothschild & Sons Limited (Rothschild & Co, and, together with Peel Hunt and Canaccord, the Banks) is authorised and regulated by the FCA in the United Kingdom, is acting exclusively for the Company and no one else in connection with the New Share Issue and will not regard any other person (whether or not a recipient of this announcement) as a client in relation to the New Share Issue and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to their respective clients nor for giving advice in relation to the New Share Issue or any transaction or arrangement referred to in this announcement.

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No person has been authorised to give any information or to make any representations other than those contained in this announcement, the Prospectus and the Application Forms, and, if given or made, such information or representations must not be relied on as having been authorised by the Company or Peel Hunt, Canaccord and Rothschild. Subject to the Listing Rules, the Prospectus Rules and the Transparency Rules of the Financial Conduct Authority and the Disclosure Requirements (as such term is defined in the Listing Rules), the issue of this announcement shall not, in any circumstances, create any implication that there has been no change in the affairs of the Company since the date of this announcement or that the information in it is correct as at any subsequent date.

Peel Hunt and Canaccord and their respective affiliates, acting as investors for their own accounts, may, in accordance with applicable legal and regulatory provisions, engage in transactions in relation to the Shares and/or related instruments for their own account for the purpose of hedging their underwriting exposure or otherwise. Accordingly, references in the Prospectus to the Shares being issued, offered, subscribed, acquired, placed or otherwise dealt in should be read as including any issue or offer to, or subscription, acquisition, placing or dealing by, Peel Hunt, Canaccord and any of their respective affiliates acting as investors for their own accounts. Except as required by applicable law or regulation, Peel Hunt and Canaccord do not propose to make any public disclosure in relation to such transactions.

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