Results of Placing

RNS Number : 0067M

Curtis Banks Group PLC

15 January 2016

 

 THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, INCLUDING THE APPENDIX TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN, IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION, RELEASE OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN, INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, JAPAN, THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA OR AUSTRALIA OR TO US PERSONS. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT AN OFFER OF SECURITIES FOR SALE IN THE UNITED STATES. THE SECURITIES DISCUSSED HEREIN HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE US SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "US SECURITIES ACT") AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES ABSENT REGISTRATION OR AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE US SECURITIES ACT. NO PUBLIC OFFERING OF THE SECURITIES DISCUSSED HEREIN IS BEING MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFERING OF SECURITIES FOR SALE IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, JAPAN, THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA OR AUSTRALIA.

15 January 2016

CURTIS BANKS GROUP PLC

 ("Curtis Banks", the "Company" or the "Group")

Results of Placing

Following the earlier announcement today that Curtis Banks has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire Suffolk Life Group Limited and its subsidiaries ("Suffolk Life") and is raising £27 million through a placing of 8,437,500 new ordinary shares in the Company (the "Placing"), the Company is pleased to announce the completion of the Bookbuild.

Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is expected that admission to AIM will become effective and that dealings on AIM will commence in the Placing Shares on 20 January 2016.

All terms in this announcement have the meaning given to them in the announcement made by the Company at 07:00 a.m. on 15 January 2016 unless otherwise defined herein.

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Enquiries:

Curtis Banks Group plc	via Walbrook PR
Rupert Curtis, Chief Executive Officer
Paul Tarran, Finance Director
Peel Hunt LLP (Sole Bookrunner and NOMAD)	Tel: [phone]
Corporate Finance
Guy Wiehahn
ECM Syndicate
Alastair Rae	Tel: [phone]
Sohail Akbar	Tel: [phone]
Walbrook PR	Tel: [phone]
Tom Cooper	[e-mail]
Paul Vann

Notes for editors:

Curtis Banks plc

Curtis Banks (AIM: CBP) administers self-invested pension products, principally SIPPs. The Group commenced trading in 2009 and has successfully developed, through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions, into one of the largest UK providers of such products. The Group employs approximately 269 staff in its head office in Bristol and regional offices in Dundee and Market Harborough.

For more information - www.curtisbanks.co.uk

 

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