Launch of MAC Alpha Limited

RNS Number : 6555W

Marwyn Value Investors Limited

24 December 2021

 

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LEI: 213800L5751QTTVEA774

24 DECEMBER 2021

Marwyn Value Investors Limited ("MVIL" or the "Company")

Launch of MAC Alpha Limited ("MAC Alpha")

The Company announces the admission to the standard segment of the Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's Main Market of a new listed acquisition company, MAC Alpha.

The directors of MAC Alpha, initially being James Corsellis and Mark Brangstrup Watts, believe that the current economic environment will present attractive opportunities to invest in, improve and grow companies in partnership with an industry leading executive or management team and have developed a listed acquisition company model that will enable trusted and successful management partners to identify value enhancing opportunities before raising additional capital.

MAC Alpha will consider a broad range of sectors. Those sectors which the MAC Alpha directors currently believe will provide the greatest opportunity, and on which MAC Alpha will initially focus, include Automotive & Transport, Business-to-Business Services, Clean Technology, Consumer & Luxury Goods, Financial Services, Banking & FinTech, Insurance, Reinsurance & InsurTech, & Other Vertical Marketplaces, Healthcare & Diagnostics and Media & Technology.

The Manager¹ believes that the structure of MAC Alpha represents a significant improvement on conventional listed acquisition vehicles both for investors and vendors, allowing for greater speed and flexibility in financing and execution combined with lower operating and transaction costs.

Funds managed by Marwyn² have invested £630,000 into MAC Alpha, representing 90% of the ordinary equity and warrants. Additionally, funds managed by the Manager have entered into a Forward Purchase Agreement with MAC Alpha to subscribe, on a discretionary basis, up to a further £20 million for securities, which may be drawn for working capital, to fund due diligence and/ or as part of future share issuances to finance a platform acquisition.

The total investment attributable to the Company's Ordinary shares will initially be £490,334, representing 0.50% of the Ordinary share net asset value ("NAV"), measured at 10 December 2021, being the latest available NAV published by the Company. None of the investment is attributable to either the 2016 Realisation shares or the 2021 Realisation shares.

¹ Marwyn Investment Management LLP.

² Marwyn Value Investors II LP and MVI II Co-Invest LP.

Company enquiries:

Company Secretary - Aztec Financial Services (Jersey) Limited

Katrina Boult / Jenny Keen

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Investor Relations

Kam Bansil

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Corporate Broker - Liberum Capital Limited

Chris Clarke / Owen Matthews

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Notes to editors:

Marwyn Value Investors Limited is a closed-ended investment company on the London Stock Exchange Specialist Fund Segment - a fully regulated market for professional, institutional and sophisticated investors. Marwyn's previous 11 comparable listed acquisition companies that have acquired platform businesses have gone on to make more than 80 subsequent transactions, delivering £4.9 billion in equity profits and an aggregate return to shareholders of 139 per cent. on invested capital as at 30 November 2021.  

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