esure announces results of Tender Offer

esure Group plc

21 June 2023

 

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT RELATES TO THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION THAT QUALIFIED OR MAY HAVE QUALIFIED AS INSIDE INFORMATION WITHIN THE MEANING OF ARTICLE 7(1) OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU) 596/2014 AS IT FORMS PART OF UK DOMESTIC LAW BY VIRTUE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018 (EUWA).

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ESURE GROUP PLC ANNOUNCES RESULTS
OF ITS CASH TENDER OFFER

21 June 2023

Further to its announcements dated 13 June 2023, esure Group plc (the Offeror) announces today the results of its invitation to holders of its outstanding £125,000,000 6.75 per cent. Subordinated Notes due 2024 (ISIN: XS1155568436) (the Notes) to tender their Notes for purchase by the Offeror for cash subject to the satisfaction (or waiver) of the New Issue Condition (such invitation, the Offer).

The Offer was made on the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the tender offer memorandum dated 13 June 2023 (together with the Offeror's subsequent announcement of the Maximum Acceptance Amount dated 13 June 2023, the Tender Offer Memorandum) prepared by the Offeror in connection with the Offer. Capitalised terms used but not otherwise defined in this announcement shall have the meanings given to them in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

The Expiration Deadline for the Offer was 4.00 p.m. (London time) on 20 June 2023. As at the Expiration Deadline, the Offeror had received valid tenders of £113,742,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the Notes for purchase pursuant to the Offer.

The Offeror announces that it has decided to set the Final Acceptance Amount at £100,000,000 and, therefore, it will accept for purchase Notes validly tendered pursuant to the Offer subject to application of a Scaling Factor of 89.719 per cent. Settlement of the issue of the New Notes took place on 20 June 2023, and the New Issue Condition has been satisfied.

The Purchase Price the Offeror will pay for those Notes validly tendered and accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer is 100.00 per cent. of their nominal amount, and the Offeror will also pay an Accrued Interest Payment in respect of such Notes.

Settlement of the purchase of the relevant Notes pursuant to the Offer is expected to take place on 23 June 2023, after which £25,000,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the Notes will remain outstanding.

Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc (Telephone: [phone]; Attention: Liability Management Team, Global Capital Markets; Email: [e-mail] is acting as the Sole Dealer Manager for the Offer.

Kroll Issuer Services Limited (Telephone: [phone]; Attention: Thomas Choquet; Email: [e-mail]; Offer Website: https://deals.is.kroll.com/esure) is acting as Tender Agent for the Offer.

This announcement is released by the Offeror and contains information that qualified or may have qualified as inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (UK MAR), encompassing information relating to the Offer described above. For the purposes of UK MAR and the Implementing Technical Standards, this announcement is made by Peter Bole, Chief Financial Officer of the Offeror.

LEI: 213800KOI3F5LM54PT80

DISCLAIMER This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender Offer Memorandum. No offer or invitation to acquire any securities is being made pursuant to this announcement. The distribution of this announcement and/or the Tender Offer Memorandum in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession this announcement and/or the Tender Offer Memorandum come(s) are required by each of the Offeror, the Sole Dealer Manager and the Tender Agent to inform themselves about, and to observe, any such restrictions.

 

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