Completion of Placing

RNS Number : 9923G

GLI Finance Limited

11 August 2016

 

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, NEW ZEALAND, JAPAN, ANY MEMBER STATE OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA ("EEA") (OTHER THAN THE UNITED KINGDOM) OR ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH IT WOULD BE UNLAWFUL TO DO SO.

Neither this announcement nor any part of it constitutes an offer or invitation to underwrite, an offer to sell or issue or the solicitation of an offer to buy, subscribe or acquire any new ordinary shares in any jurisdiction in which any such offer or solicitation would be unlawful and the information contained herein is not for publication or distribution, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States, Australia, Canada, the Republic of South Africa, New Zealand, Japan, any member state of the EEA (other than the United Kingdom) or any jurisdiction in which such publication or distribution would be unlawful. The securities referred to herein have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 (as amended), under the securities legislation of any state of the United States or under the applicable securities laws of any other jurisdiction.

GLI Finance Limited

(the "Company" or "GLI")

Completion of Placing

Following the announcement on 9 August 2016, GLI is pleased to announce that it has placed 23,020,560 new ordinary shares ("Placing Shares") in the Company at a price of 31 pence per share with Golf Investments Limited, a member of the Somerston group of companies ("Somerston"), raising total gross proceeds of approximately £7.1 million (the "Placing").

The Placing is conditional, inter alia, on Admission. Application has been made for the Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM, which is expected to occur at 8.00 a.m. on 15 August 2016 ("Admission"). The Placing Shares will, when issued and fully paid, rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares in the Company.

Assuming Somerston makes no further purchases of ordinary shares, following Admission, it will be interested in 67,450,103 ordinary shares representing 21.9 per cent. of the Company's issued ordinary share capital.

For further information, please contact:

GLI Finance Limited

Andy Whelan

[phone]

Panmure Gordon (Nominated Adviser and Corporate Broker)

Dominic Morley

[phone]

Peter Steel

[phone]

Charles Leigh Pemberton

[phone]

Instinctif Partners (PR Advisor)

Tim Linacre/Nick Woods

[phone]

About GLI Finance

GLI (www.glifinance.com) is a specialist provider of finance to small and medium sized enterprises. Its ordinary shares are quoted on the AIM and its issued zero dividend preference shares are listed and traded on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (tickers GLIF and GLIS (Ord) and GLIZ (2019 ZDP)). Loans are provided to SMEs through a variety of finance platforms in which GLI has an equity stake.

The platforms in which GLI is invested vary by geography, industry, size of lending and by type of lending. They include UK and US SME Lending, Offshore Lending, UK and European Invoice Discounting, Supply Chain Finance, Global Trade Finance and UK Property-Backed Lending.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA"), is acting as nominated adviser, sole broker and sole bookrunner to the Company for the purposes of the AIM Rules for Companies and the AIM Rules for Nominated Advisers published by the London Stock Exchange in connection with the matters described in this announcement and no-one else and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to clients of Panmure Gordon nor for providing advice in relation to the matters contained herein.

Neither Panmure Gordon nor any of its directors, officers, employees, advisers or agents accepts any responsibility or liability whatsoever for, or makes any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the truth, accuracy or completeness of, the information in this announcement (or whether any information has been omitted from the announcement) or any information relating to the Company, whether written, oral, or in a visual or electronic form, and howsoever transmitted or made available or any loss howsoever arising from any use of this announcement or its contents or otherwise in connection with it.

This announcement may not be published, distributed or transmitted by any means or media, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, in or into the United States.  This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, securities in the United States.  Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (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.  The Company has not been, and will not be, registered under the US Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

Neither this announcement nor any copy of it may be: (i) taken or transmitted into or distributed in any member state of the European Economic Area (other than the United Kingdom), Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the Republic of South Africa or to any resident thereof, or (ii) taken or transmitted into or distributed in Japan or to any resident thereof. Any failure to comply with these restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws or the laws of any such jurisdiction. The distribution of this announcement in other jurisdictions may be restricted by law and the persons into whose possession this document comes should inform themselves about, and observe any such restrictions.

 

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