Exercise of Over-allotment Option

RNS Number : 3782G

Softcat PLC

20 November 2015

 

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20 November 2015

Softcat plc

Announcement of Exercise of Over-allotment Option

Softcat plc (the "Company") today confirms that, in connection with its initial public offering of ordinary shares in the Company (the "Offer"), Jefferies International Limited, as stabilising manager, has exercised the over-allotment option granted by Peter Kelly, Martin Hellawell and Gilbert John Chalk & Alan Putt (as trustees of a trust of which John Nash, a former director of the Company is the ultimate beneficiary) in respect of 9,587,993 ordinary shares in the Company (the "Over-allotment Shares"). The Over-allotment Shares will be sold at the offer price of 240 pence per Over-allotment Share.

Including the exercise of the over-allotment option, the total size of the Offer was 73,507,949 ordinary shares, representing 37.4% of the 196,776,260 ordinary shares of the Company in issue. Following the Offer and the exercise of the over-allotment option, it is expected that Peter Kelly & Family, Martin Hellawell & Family and Gilbert John Chalk & John Alan Putt as trustees of a trust of which John Nash, a former director of the Company is the ultimate beneficiary, will hold 64,976,058, 14,784,399 and 13,318,364 shares, respectively, or 33.0%, 7.5% and 6.8%, respectively, of the total issued share capital of the Company.

Enquiries:

FTI Consulting LLP (Public Relations Adviser to Softcat): Ed Bridges Matt Dixon Dwight Burden	0203 727 1000

Important Notice

Jefferies International Limited is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority, is acting on behalf of Softcat plc and no one else in connection with the Offer and will not be responsible to any person other than Softcat plc for providing the protections afforded to any of their clients or for providing advice in relation to the Offer.

The information contained in this announcement is for background purposes only and does not purport to be full or complete. No reliance may be placed for any purpose on the information contained in this announcement or its accuracy, fairness or completeness.

This announcement is not for release, publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, in, into or within the United States (including its territories and possessions, any State of the United States and the District of Columbia). This announcement is for informational purposes only and does not constitute or form part of any offer or solicitation to purchase or subscribe for securities in the United States. The securities referred to herein have not been, and will not be, registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "US Securities Act") or under the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States.

The securities referred to herein may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the US Securities Act. There will be no public offer of securities in the United States.

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This announcement is not and does not constitute, or form part of, an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities in Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa or any other jurisdiction where such an offer would be unlawful.

The securities referred into herein have not been and will not be registered under the applicable securities laws of Canada, Japan, South Africa or Australia and may not be offered or sold in Australia, Canada, Japan or South Africa except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the applicable securities laws. There will be no public offering of securities in Australia, Canada, Japan or South Africa.

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