Aberdeen Asian Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC
Conversion of CULS
10 June 2015
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 573 Ordinary shares of 25p each ("Ordinary Shares") to be admitted to the Official List, and dealings are expected to commence on or around 12 June 2015. 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 4,790 units of Convertible Unsecured Loan Stock 2019 ("CULS") in the period to 31 May 2015.
Following this issue, the Company's issued Ordinary share capital will consist of 38,100,890 Ordinary shares and 1,076,290 Treasury shares and there will be 33,043,143 units of CULS outstanding.
Following the commencement of dealings on or around 12 June 2015, the above figure (38,100,890) 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