Tower Resources PLC Subscription and Director’s Dealings

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Tower Resources PLC

06 June 2024

 

 

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This announcement does not constitute a prospectus or offering memorandum or an offer in respect of any securities and is not intended to provide the basis for any decision in respect of Tower Resources PLC or other evaluation of any securities of Tower Resources PLC or any other entity and should not be considered as a recommendation that any investor should subscribe for or purchase any such securities.

 

6 June 2024

Tower Resources plc

("Tower" or the "Company")

Subscription to raise £137,500 and Director's Dealings

 

Tower Resources plc (AIM: TRP), the AIM-listed oil and gas company focused on Africa, is pleased to announce a subscription for 1,195,652,174 ordinary shares of 0.001p each (the "Subscription Shares") at a price of 0.0115p per Subscription Share (the "Subscription"), representing a discount of approximately 4% to the closing bid price of the Company's shares on 5 June 2024.

 

The Subscription has been arranged with the Company's Chairman and CEO, Jeremy Asher, and another investor.

 

The proposed Subscription is being made to fund near term working capital and to progress work on the Company's licenses; including the Thali PSC, offshore Cameroon, PEL 96 in Namibia, and the Algoa-Gamtoos license in South Africa. Further details are set out below.

 

Tower Resources Chairman & CEO, Jeremy Asher, commented:

 

"This subscription reflects my personal confidence in the Company and my desire to purchase additional shares at this exciting moment for us. I am pleased that an investor, introduced by one of our brokers, shared the same view and also wanted to invest additional money into the Company at this time. Our focus remains on the successful completion of our current asset-level financing discussions and the execution of the NJOM-3 well, which we expect to drill later this year."

 

Contacts:

 

Tower Resources plc Jeremy Asher Chairman & CEO   Andrew Matharu VP - Corporate Affairs	[phone]
BlytheRay Financial PR Tim Blythe Megan Ray	[phone]
SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker Stuart Gledhill Caroline Rowe Kasia Brzozowska	[phone]
Axis Capital Markets Limited Joint Broker Lewis Jones Ben Tadd	[phone]
Novum Securities Ltd Joint Broker Jon Bellis Colin Rowbury	[phone]

 

 

Related Party Transaction

 

The participation of Jeremy Asher (the "Director Related Party") constitutes a related party transaction in accordance with AIM Rule 13. Accordingly, Paula Brancato and Mark Enfield, acting as the independent Directors, consider, having consulted with the Company's Nominated Adviser, SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP, that the terms of the Director Related Party participation in the Subscription is fair and reasonable insofar as the Company's shareholders are concerned.

 

The following table sets out the Directors' shareholdings and percentage interests in the issued share capital of the Company following completion of the Subscription.

 

	Holding prior to the announcement of Subscription		Number of Subscription Shares acquired pursuant to the Subscription	Immediately following Admission of the Subscription Shares
	Number of Ordinary Shares	% of issued share capital	Number of Ordinary Shares	Number of Ordinary Shares	% of issued share capital	% of fully diluted share capital
Jeremy Asher*	1,011,603,608	6.08	695,652,174	1,707,255,782	9.57	8.09
Mark Enfield#	1,877,546	0.01	-	1,877,546	0.02	0.01§
Paula Brancato#	-	-	-	-	-	-

 

* Includes shares held directly and via Agile Energy Ltd and Pegasus Petroleum Ltd which are owned by the Asher Family Trust of which Jeremy Asher is a lifetime beneficiary

^# Independent Director

^§ This figure describes the ratio of shares held immediately after admission to the fully diluted share capital; in the event that Mr Asher and Mr Enfield exercised all warrants and options they hold and continued to hold those additional shares after exercise, then their respective shareholdings after full exercise as a percentage of fully diluted capital would be 16.04% and 0.88% respectively.

 

Share Capital following the Subscription

 

Application has been made for the Subscription Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is expected that Admission of the Subscription Shares will become effective and that dealings will commence at 8.00 a.m. on or around 13 June 2024.

 

Following Admission of the Subscription Shares, the Company's enlarged issued share capital will comprise 17,833,837,424 Ordinary Shares of 0.001 pence each with voting rights in the Company. This figure may 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 the interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE

This announcement does not constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to purchase, or otherwise acquire, subscribe for, sell, otherwise dispose of or issue, or any solicitation of any offer to sell, otherwise dispose of, issue, purchase, otherwise acquire or subscribe for, any security in the capital of the Company in any jurisdiction.

 

The information contained in this announcement is not to be released, published, distributed or transmitted by any means or media, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, in or into the United States or to any US Person. This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, securities in the United States or to any US Person. Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent: (i) registration under the Securities Act; or (ii) an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act. The securities mentioned herein have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act and will not be offered to the public in the United States.

 

This announcement does not constitute an offer to buy or to subscribe for, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe for, Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company or any other security in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. The securities mentioned herein have not been, and the Ordinary Shares will not be, qualified for sale under the laws of any of Canada, Australia, the Republic of South Africa or Japan and may not be offered or sold in Canada, Australia, the Republic of South Africa or Japan or to any national, resident or citizen of Canada, Australia, the Republic of South Africa or Japan. Neither this announcement nor any copy of it may be sent to or taken into the United States, Canada, Australia, the Republic of South Africa or Japan. In addition, the securities to which this announcement relates must not be marketed into any jurisdiction where to do so would be unlawful.

 

Note regarding forward-looking statements

 

This announcement contains certain forward-looking statements relating to the Company's future prospects, developments and business strategies. Forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as "targets" "estimates", "envisages", "believes", "expects", "aims", "intends", "plans", "will", "may", "anticipates", "would", "could" or similar expressions or the negative of those, variations or comparable expressions, including references to assumptions.

 

The forward-looking statements in this announcement are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by those statements. These forward-looking statements relate only to the position as at the date of this announcement. Neither the Directors nor the Company undertake any obligation to update forward looking statements, other than as required by the AIM Rules for Companies or by the rules of any other applicable securities regulatory authority, whether as a result of the information, future events or otherwise. You are advised to read this announcement and the information incorporated by reference herein, in its entirety. The events described in the forward-looking statements made in this announcement may not occur.

 

Neither the content of the Company's website (or any other website) nor any website accessible by hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated in, or forms part of, this announcement.

 

Any person receiving this announcement is advised to exercise caution in relation to the Placing. If in any doubt about any of the contents of this announcement, independent professional advice should be obtained.

 

Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure

 

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 ('MAR'). Upon the publication of this announcement via Regulatory Information Service ('RIS'), this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

 

 

About Tower Resources

Tower Resources plc is an AIM listed energy company building a balanced portfolio of energy opportunities in Africa across the exploration and production cycle in oil and gas and beyond. The Company's current focus is on advancing its operations in Cameroon to deliver cash flow through short-cycle development and rapid production with long term upside, and de-risking attractive exploration licenses through acquiring 3D seismic data in the emerging oil and gas provinces of Namibia and South Africa, where world-class discoveries have recently been made.

Tower's strategy is centred around stable jurisdictions that the Company knows well and that offer excellent fiscal terms. Through its Directors, staff and strategic relationship with EPI Group, Tower has access to decades of expertise and experience in Cameroon and Namibia, and its joint venture with New Age builds on years of experience in South Africa.

 

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM:

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Jeremy Asher
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	Tower Resources PLC
b)	LEI:	2138002J9VH6PN7P2B09
4.	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument: Identification code:	Ordinary Shares of 0.001 pence each GB00BZ6D6J81
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Subscription for ordinary shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s) Volume(s) 0.0115pence 695,652,174
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	Single transaction as in 4 c) above Price(s) Volume(s) 0.0115pence 695,652,174
e)	Date of the transaction:	5 June 2024
f)	Place of the transaction:	Outside a trading venue

 

 

 

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