Issue of Equity

RNS Number : 2454B

Liontrust Asset Management PLC

03 April 2017

 

03 April 2017

Stock Exchange Announcement

LIONTRUST ASSET MANAGEMENT PLC

Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights

Liontrust Asset Management PLC ("Liontrust" or the "Company") announces that it has issued 4,060,792 new ordinary Liontrust shares of 1p each (the "New Ordinary Shares") to Alliance Trust Plc as part of the consideration payable for the purchase of the entire issued share capital of Alliance Trust Investments Limited (the "Acquisition"). The Acquisition completed on 1 April 2017.

Application has been made for the New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to the Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange, both of which are expected to become effective on 6 April 2017.

Following the admission to trading of the New Ordinary Shares, the Company's capital consists of 49,532,347 ordinary shares of 1p each with voting rights. No ordinary shares are held in Treasury.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 49,532,347.

The above figure of 49,532,347 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 FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information please contact:

Liontrust Asset Management                                                     020 7412 1700

John Ions, Vinay Abrol                                                                  www.liontrust.co.uk

Simon Hildrey - Chief Marketing Officer

Numis Securities Limited                                                             020 7260 1000

Charles Farquhar, Andrew Holloway

Macquarie Capital (Europe) Limited                                       020 3037 2000

Advisory - Jonny Allison, Kavita Choitram

Corporate Broking - Alex Reynolds, Nick Harland

ENDS

 

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