Hazel Renewable Energy VCT2 plc: Transaction in...

Hazel Renewable Energy VCT2 plc

LEI: 213800GQ3JQE2M214C75

Transaction in Own Shares

15 February 2019

Hazel Renewable Energy VCT2 plc announces that, on 15 February 2019, the Company purchased the following Shares to be held in treasury:

	No. purchased	Price paid per share (pence)	% of class in issue
Ordinary Shares of 0.1p each	552,738	110.59	2.1%
A Shares of 0.1p each	552,738	0.1	1.4%

Following this transaction, the issued share capital and total voting rights of the Company are as follows:

	Shares in issue (excluding treasury)	Voting rights per share	Voting rights
Ordinary Shares of 0.1 pence each	26,133,036	1,000	26,133,036,000
A Shares of 0.1 pence each	39,463,845	1	39,463,845
Total Voting Rights			26,172,499,845

The Board also announces that it has set aside funds to be used for new investments to ensure that the Company can continue to comfortably maintain its VCT qualifying status in the future (taking into account the new VCT regulations which take effect later this year) and to ensure sufficient funds are available for the payment of future dividends.

Therefore, for the time being the Company will not buy back Shares. The Board will keep the situation under review and, as and when liquidity permits, will reconsider buying back Shares. Meanwhile, the Board will endeavour to encourage the development of the secondary market for the Company’s Shares.