Completion of Acquisition / Total Voting Rights

RNS Number : 8827R

Burford Capital

14 December 2016

 

14 December 2016

COMPLETION OF ACQUISITION / TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

Burford Capital Limited ("Burford" or the "Company"), a leading global finance firm focused on law, announces today that further to its statement this morning, the acquisition of GKC Holdings LLC, the parent of Gerchen Keller Capital, LLC (the "Acquisition"), is now complete.

The Acquisition was funded through a combination of cash, loan notes and new Burford shares.  Following admission of the new ordinary shares, expected tomorrow 15 December 2016, the total number of ordinary shares in issue and the total number of ordinary shares in the Company with voting rights will be 208,237,979. This figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change of interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Service Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information, please contact:

Macquarie Capital (Europe) Limited - NOMAD and Joint Broker	[phone]
Jonny Allison
Nicholas Harland
Liberum Capital Limited - Joint Broker	[phone]
Richard Crawley
Jamie Richards
Numis Securities Limited - Joint Broker	[phone]
Charlie Farquhar
Andrew Holloway
Neustria Partners - Financial Communications for Burford Capital	[phone]
Robert Bailhache [email]
Charles Gorman [email]
Nick Henderson [email]

About Burford Capital

Burford Capital is a leading global finance firm focused on law. Burford's businesses include litigation finance and risk management, corporate intelligence and judgment enforcement, and a wide range of law firm financing activities. Burford's equity and debt securities are publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, and it works with lawyers and clients around the world from its principal offices in New York and London.

For more information about Burford, visit www.burfordcapital.com

 

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