Result of Placing and PrimaryBid Offer

RNS Number : 8081E

Urban Logistics REIT PLC

09 July 2021

 

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This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 ("MAR").  

09 July 2021

Urban Logistics REIT plc

("Urban Logistics" or the "Company")

Result of Placing and PrimaryBid Offer

Further to the Company's announcements on 30 June 2021, the Board of Urban Logistics, the specialist UK Logistics REIT, is pleased to announce that it is has raised gross proceeds of c.£ 108.3 million pursuant to the Placing and the PrimaryBid Offer.

The Placing was materially oversubscribed above the £108 million target and a scaling back exercise in respect of the Placing was therefore carried out. A total of 65,870,766 Placing Shares (c.£102.1 million) in the Company have been conditionally placed by Singer Capital Markets, Panmure Gordon and Alvarium (the "Joint Bookrunners") with new and existing investors at an Issue Price of 155 pence per Ordinary Share.

In addition, taking into account the strong demand from retail investors in the PrimaryBid Offer, a total of 4,000,000 PrimaryBid Shares (£6.2 million) in the Company have been conditionally placed by PrimaryBid at the Issue Price, being the maximum number of shares available in the PrimaryBid Offer. The Company values its retail investor base and welcomes 116 existing and 395 new shareholders who have invested via PrimaryBid in the PrimaryBid Offer.

Nigel Rich CBE, Independent Non-Executive Chairman, said:

"I am delighted to announce that the Placing and PrimaryBid Offer were both materially oversubscribed. Recognising the importance of our retail shareholders, I'm pleased to say we have satisfied the PrimaryBid subscription in full. On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank our existing and new shareholders for their support. The urban logistics sector continues to benefit from long term structural momentum created by the growth in e-commerce. This significant injection of capital will enable the Company to continue its growth and capture a pipeline of attractive assets. We look forward to updating shareholders further on these acquisitions in due course."

Completion of the Placing and the PrimaryBid Offer is subject to, inter alia, shareholder approval to enable the allotment of the balance of New Ordinary Shares not being allotted and issued under existing shareholder authorities, which will be sought at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held at 124 Sloane Street, London, SW1X 9BW at 10:00 a.m. on 12 July 2021.

Directors' participation in the Placing

The following Directors have subscribed for New Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Placing as outlined below:

Director	No. of New Ordinary Shares being subscribed pursuant to the Placing	Resulting holding of Ordinary Shares	% of Enlarged Share Capital1
Nigel Rich	75,000	440,536	0.14%
Richard Moffitt2	64,516	462,878	0.14%

1. Assuming 69,870,766 New Ordinary Shares are issued pursuant to the Issue

2. Pacific Industrial LLP holds Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Company's long-term incentive plan and, inter alios, Richard Moffitt is a member of Pacific Industrial LLP and therefore has an interest in such shares.

An application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for admission to trading of 69,870,766 new Ordinary Shares on AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will take place at 8.00 a.m. on 13 July 2021 and that dealings in the new Ordinary Shares will commence at the same time. The Ordinary Shares will, when issued, be credited as fully paid and will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing issued Ordinary Shares including the right to receive all dividends and other distributions declared, made or paid after their date of issue. For the avoidance of doubt, the New Ordinary Shares issued pursuant to the Placing and the PrimaryBid Offer will not be eligible to receive the second interim dividend of 4.35 pence declared on 9 June 2021 and payable to shareholders on the register at the close of business on 18 June 2021.

Following Admission, the total issued share capital of the Company will be 324,916,587 Ordinary Shares. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. The above figure 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 in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalised terms in this announcement shall have the meaning given to them in the Proposed Equity Raise and PrimaryBid Offer announcements of the Company dated 30 June 2021.

For further information contact: 

Urban Logistics REIT plc Richard Moffitt	[phone]
Buchanan - Financial PR Helen Tarbet Henry Wilson George Beale	[phone] [phone] [phone] [phone]
Singer Capital Markets (formerly N+1 Singer) - Nominated Adviser, Joint Broker and Joint Bookrunner James Maxwell / Alaina Wong (Corporate Finance) Alan Geeves / James Waterlow / Sam Greatrex (Sales)	[phone]
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited - Joint Broker and Joint Bookrunner Chloe Ponsonby (Corporate Broking) Emma Earl (Corporate Finance) David Hawkins / Tom Scrivens (Sales)	[phone]
Alvarium - Joint Bookrunner
Mark Thompson Eddie Nissen Oliver Kenyon	[phone] [phone] [phone]

IMPORTANT NOTICE

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of MAR. Upon publication of this announcement, the inside information is now considered to be in the public domain for the purposes of MAR. The person responsible for arranging the release of this announcement on behalf of the Company is Pacific Capital Partners Limited.

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