Management Agreement and EGM

Pantheon International Participations PLC 30 January 2007 PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT and NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING Pantheon International Participations PLC ("PIP") announces that it has today entered into an agreement with Pantheon Ventures Limited (the "Manager") (the "Supplemental Agreement") which will, if it becomes effective, make changes to the performance fee arrangements included in its Management Agreement with the manager and give PIP an entitlement to participate on an enhanced basis in allocations of secondary investment opportunities identified by the Manager and other members of its group. Because these changes to the Management Agreement (the "Proposals") will constitute a related party transaction, the Supplemental Agreement provides that the Proposals will only become effective upon their approval by PIP's ordinary shareholders at an Extraordinary General Meeting ("EGM"). PIP is today issuing a circular to its shareholders setting out full details of the Proposals together with a notice convening the EGM. The Board believes that the level of net assets that the Company would need to achieve in order for a performance fee to become payable are not reasonably attainable and, thus, the performance fee no longer represents an effective incentive for the Manager. Accordingly, the Board would like to amend the performance fee arrangements to ensure that the Manager is appropriately incentivised to achieve the best returns for the Company and, thus, its Shareholders. The Board proposes, and the Supplemental Agreement provides, that the following changes be made: 1. that the performance fee rate be reduced from 10 per cent. to 5 per cent.; 2. that the hurdle rate be reduced from 15 per cent. per annum to 10 per cent. per annum; and 3. that the "high water mark", which is currently the net asset value of PIP (including the aggregate adjusted redemption value of the participating loan notes then in issue) as at 30 June 2000 (compounded annually at a rate of 15 per cent. per annum) be re-set to the net asset value of PIP as at 31 December 2006. These changes would take effect from 1 January 2007 such that the first period in respect of which they would apply would be an 18 month period commencing 1 January 2007 and ending 30 June 2008. Thereafter, the new performance fee arrangements would apply for successive calculation periods of 12 months, commencing on 1 July and ending 30 June. The current calculation period (which commenced on 1 July 2006) would end on 31 December 2006, and in respect of that 6 month period, no performance fee would be payable. In this context, the Manager has agreed, and the Supplemental Agreement provides, that, subject to the proposed changes to the performance fee arrangements described above becoming effective, the Company will be entitled to participate on an enhanced basis in allocations of secondary investment opportunities identified by the Manager and other members of its group under their secondary investment programme. Full details of, including the background to and reasons for, the Proposals are included in the circular referred to above. The circular includes a statement that the Board, who have been so advised by RSM Robson Rhodes Corporate Finance, consider the Proposals to be fair and reasonable so far as the Company and its Shareholders are concerned. A copy of the circular will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority at the time of posting to PIP's shareholders and will shortly thereafter be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's document viewing facility, which is situated at: Financial Services Authority 25 The North Colonnade London E14 5HS The EGM is to be held at Norfolk House, 31 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4JR on 26 February 2007 at 10.00 a.m. All Enquiries: Pantheon International Participations PLC Tom Bartlam 020 7484 6200 RSM Robson Rhodes Corporate Finance Martin Gibbs / Samantha Harrison 020 7865 2341/2238 Pantheon Ventures Alastair Bruce / Andrew Lebus 020 7484 6200 NOTES TO EDITORS Pantheon International Participations PLC Pantheon International Participations PLC ("PIP") is a London quoted investment trust, managed by Pantheon Ventures Ltd., one of the longest-established international private equity fund-of-funds, investing in both primary funds and secondary transactions. With investments in over 300 private equity funds, covering late stage buyouts to early stage technology, PIP enables individuals as well as institutions to gain access to a substantial portfolio of unquoted companies in the USA, the UK, Continental Europe and Asia, within funds managed by experienced private equity managers. PIP may occasionally acquire direct holdings in unquoted companies, usually where a vendor is seeking to sell a combined portfolio of funds and direct holdings. PIP's investment policy also extends to investing directly in companies where there is a private equity manager well known to the Company investing on the same terms. www.pipplc.com Pantheon Ventures Ltd. Pantheon has been active in private equity since 1982 and is now one of the world's leading private equity fund-of-funds managers, with £6.5 billion under management (as at 31 March 2006), investments in some 500 private equity funds in over 30 countries and offices in London, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Brussels. Pantheon is part of the Russell Investment Group.
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