Admission to trading on the Specialist Fund Market

RNS Number : 0193F

Africa Opportunity Fund Limited

17 April 2014

 



17 April 2014

Africa Opportunity Fund Limited

Admission to trading on the Specialist Fund Market

Further to the announcement issued on 11 April 2014, Africa Opportunity Fund Limited (the "Company") is pleased to announce that 29,200,000 C Shares and 42,630,327 Ordinary Shares will today be admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange's Specialist Fund Market ("SFM"). Admission to the SFM will become effective, and dealings in both the Ordinary Shares and C Shares will commence, at 8:00 a.m. on 17 April 2014. Details of the securities are as follows:

Share class	Ticker	ISIN	Number of shares to be admitted to trading
Ordinary Shares	AOF	KYG012921048	42,630,327
C Shares	AOFC	KYG012921121	29,200,000

The Company's Ordinary Shares shall have their current admission on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market cancelled. This cancellation is scheduled to take place today at 8:00 a.m.

It is expected that the C Shares will be credited to Euroclear / Clearstream accounts in uncertificated form as soon as practicable after 8:00 a.m. today and that definitive share certificates will be dispatched to the relevant Shareholders during the week commencing 28 April 2014.

More information on Africa Opportunity Fund Limited is available at: www.africaopportunityfund.com/ 

Defined terms used in this announcement shall have the same meaning as ascribed to them in the prospectus of the Company dated 28 March 2014.

The dates and times specified are subject to change and will be notified by the Company through a Regulatory Information Service. All references to times in this announcement are to Greenwich Mean Time unless otherwise stated.

For further information, please contact:

Africa Opportunity Fund Limited
Francis Daniels                                                                                                     Tel: [phone]

Robert Knapp                                                                                                       Tel: [phone]

Edmond de Rothschild Securities (UK) Limited, Placing Agent & Financial Adviser
William Marle / John Armstrong-Denby                                                          Tel: [phone]

Andrew Davies (Sales)                                                                                       Tel: [phone]

Hiroshi Funaki                                                                                                      Tel: [phone]

Grant Thornton UK LLP, Nominated Adviser                                 
Philip Secrett                                                                                                        Tel: [phone]

David Hignell                                                                                                       Tel: [phone]

 

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