Aberdeen Asian Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC
Conversion of CULS
6 December 2012
Application is being made by Aberdeen Asian Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC (the "Company") to the UK Listing Authority and the London Stock Exchange Plc for a total of 23,372 Ordinary shares of 25p each ("Ordinary Shares") to be admitted to the Official List, and dealings are expected to commence on or around 12 December 2012. The new Ordinary Shares will rank, pari passu, with the existing Ordinary Shares of the Company.
The listing application has been made following the conversion of 194,182 units of Convertible Unsecured Loan Stock 2019 ("CULS") in the period to 30 November 2012.
Following this issue, the Company's issued Ordinary share capital will consist of 35,843,582 Ordinary shares and 1,326,290 Treasury shares and there will be 34,805,818 units of CULS outstanding.
The above figure (35,843,582) may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company, under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Enquiries:
Charles Mearns
Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited
0131 528 4132