RM Secured Direct Lending PLC Dividend reclassification (9181I)

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RNS Number : 9181I

RM Secured Direct Lending PLC

17 December 2020

RM Secured Direct Lending Plc

("RMDL" or the "Company")

LEI: 213800RBRIYICC2QC958

Dividend reclassification

On 2 November 2020, the Company declared an interim dividend of 1.625 pence per ordinary share in respect of the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 September 2020.

The Company's Tax Adviser has subsequently provided the Company's annual tax computation for the Company's 2019 financial year and it has come to light that due to taxable income being higher than expected for 2019, the Company may be liable to pay additional corporation tax. The Company believes that this tax liability is immaterial.

To reduce this taxable income and negate the additional tax liability for 2019, the Company's interim dividend of 1.625 pence per ordinary share as previously announced on 2 November 2020 has been reclassified as follows:

0.258 pence per ordinary share in respect of the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 September 2020

1.367 pence per ordinary share in respect of the period from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019

As a result of the reclassification any additional tax for this year is expected to be minimal and addressed in 2021.

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For further information, please contact:

 
 RM Funds - Investment Manager 
  James Robson 
  Pietro Nicholls                                        0131 603 7060 
 N+1 Singer Advisory LLP - Financial Adviser 
  and Broker 
  James Maxwell 
  Carlo Spingardi                                        020 7496 3000 
 Peel Hunt LLP - Financial Adviser and Broker 
  Luke Simpson 
  Liz Yong                                               0207 418 8900 
 Tulchan Communications LLP - Financial PR               0207 353 4200 
  Elizabeth Snow                                          [e-mail] 
  Deborah Roney 
 PraxisIFM Fund Services (UK) Limited - Administrator 
  and Company Secretary 
  Brian Smith 
  Ciara McKillop                                         0204 513 9260 
 

About RM Secured Direct Lending

RM Secured Direct Lending Plc is a closed-ended investment trust established to invest in a portfolio of secured debt instruments. The Company aims to generate attractive and regular dividends through loans sourced or originated by the Investment Manager with a degree of inflation protection through index-linked returns where appropriate. Loans in which the Company invests are predominantly secured against assets such as real estate or plant and machinery and/or income streams such as account receivables.

About RM Capital Markets Limited

RM Funds is a trading name of RM Capital Markets Limited, the Investment Manager to RM Secured Direct Lending PLC and VT RM Alternative Income Fund. RM Capital is a specialist in alternative fund management, sales & trading, foreign exchange, and capital markets and advisory. Founded in 2010, with offices in Edinburgh, and London, it has transacted in excess of GBP50 billion of bonds and loans since its inception, and advised or originated, structured and managed the due diligence process for over GBP1 billion of Sterling credit transactions and approximately EUR700 million of Euro based transactions in each case since 2012.

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