Results of GM and Completion of Placing

RNS Number : 1837O

Pacific Industrial & Log REIT PLC

16 August 2017

 

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16 August 2017

Pacific Industrial & Logistics REIT plc

(the "Company")

Results of General Meeting and completion of placing

The board of directors of Pacific Industrial & Logistics REIT plc (AIM: PILR), the  specialist UK industrial and logistics properties REIT, is pleased to announce that at a general meeting of the Company held earlier today all resolutions were duly passed.

Accordingly, and as set out in the announcement of the Company dated 31 July 2017 (the "Previous Announcement"), the Company now has the requisite authority to complete the placing to raise gross proceeds of approximately £53 million.

Application has been made for 46,607,514 new ordinary shares ("Ordinary Shares"), consisting of 46,086,957 Placing Shares and 520,557 LTIP Shares (see the Previous Announcement for further details), to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and it is expected that Admission will occur on 17 August 2017. Following Admission, the Company will have 68,064,724 Ordinary Shares in issue.

Following Admission, the Directors and Management Team will be interested in the following Ordinary Shares:

		Following Admission
	No. of Placing Shares being subscribed for	Number of Ordinary Shares	Percentage of Enlarged Share Capital
Nigel Rich*	108,695	183,695	0.3%
Richard Moffitt**	56,521	356,521	0.5%
Mark Johnson**,***	43,478	193,478	0.3%
Bruce Anderson	17,391	37,391	0.1%
Jonathan Gray	20,000	40,000	0.1%
Christopher Turner**	86,956	286,956	0.4%

* Shortly after Admission, Mr. Rich will transfer 32,000 Placing Shares held in a self-invested personal pension ('SIPP') into an individual savings account ('ISA'), both of which he is the beneficiary.

** Messrs Moffitt, Johnson and Turner are members of Pacific Industrial LLP and, accordingly, will be interested in aggregate in a further 520,557 Ordinary Shares following the issue of the LTIP Shares (see the Previous Announcement for further detail).

*** Shortly after Admission, Mr. Johnson will transfer his Placing Shares registered in his own name into an individual savings account ('ISA') of which he is the beneficiary.

Capitalised terms in this announcement have the same meaning as the Previous Announcement unless the context otherwise requires.

Further enquiries:

Pacific Industrial & Logistics REIT Plc Richard Moffitt Christopher Turner Sam Tucker	[phone]
Canaccord Genuity - Nominated Adviser, Joint Financial Adviser and Sole Bookrunner Bruce Garrow / Charlie Foster	[phone]
Kinmont- Joint Financial Advisor Mat Thackery	[phone]
FTI - Financial PR and IR adviser to the Company Claire Turvey/Richard Gotla	[phone]

About Pacific Industrial & Logistics REIT

Pacific Industrial & Logistics REIT plc is a property investment company, quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.

The Company has been established to invest in UK based industrial and logistics properties with a view to delivering attractive dividends and capital returns to its shareholders. The investment strategy is focused on smaller single let industrial and logistics properties in key geographical locations servicing high quality tenants. Investment returns will be generated by an experienced management team focusing on quality stock selection, and active asset management.

A number of structural and commercial factors currently support the attractive opportunity in the last mile/regional industrial and logistics real estate sub-sectors targeted by the Company including strong occupier demand (in particular due to growth in e-commerce and investment by retailers in their associated supply chain) and a decline in the supply of lettable space in industrial and logistics real estate across the UK ( being more than one third lower than the most recent peak of 2009).

Acquisitions are targeted in the 6.5 to 7.5 per cent. Net Initial Yield bracket (with affordable underlying rents in the region of £4.50 to £5.50 per square foot), on an overall LTV of 35 to 40 per cent. with a significant margin over financing costs, thus presenting an attractive income, capital growth and total return proposition.

The Directors believe the Company is the only closed-ended quoted or listed company in the UK with this sole investment focus, a competitive advantage which the Directors believe will increase as the Company grows.

The Company's results for the period from IPO on 13^th April 2016 to 31^st March 2017 saw a 22.6 per cent total shareholder return, including aggregate dividends of 6 pence per ordinary share on an IPO price of 100p.The net proceeds of the Placing will be used to fund acquisitions from the Company's existing pipeline of potential transaction opportunities.

 

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