Completion of Tender Offer/Total Voting Rights

RNS Number : 5146M

Gulf Investment Fund PLC

21 January 2021

 

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO, CANADA, JAPAN, NEW ZEALAND AND THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO MAY RESULT IN THE CONTRAVENTION OF ANY REGISTRATION OR OTHER LEGAL REQUIREMENT OF SUCH JURISDICTION

21 January 2021

Gulf Investment Fund plc (Ticker: GIF)

Completion of Tender Offer

Total Voting Rights

Gulf Investment Fund plc (the 'Company') announces that it has completed the purchase of 40,643,418 Tendered Shares in accordance with the Tender Offer launched on 23 November 2020.

The proceeds payable to Shareholders whose tendered shares are held through CREST accounts will be made by 29 January 2021 and cheques for the Shares purchased under the Tender Offer will be despatched by that date.

5,757,536 Tendered Shares are being transferred into treasury with the balance of 34,885,882 Tendered Shares being cancelled. The issued share capital is now 57,575,360 shares. The Company is not permitted to exercise voting rights in respect of the 5,757,536 shares held in treasury. As a result, the total number of shares with voting rights is 51,817,824. This is the figure shareholders should use to calculate if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company, under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules

For the purposes of this announcement, unless otherwise defined, capitalised words and phrases shall have the meaning given to them in the Circular.

Legal Entity Identifier: 2138009DIENFWKC3PW84

For further information:

Nicholas Wilson  [phone]

Gulf Investment Fund plc

Ian Dungate/Suzanne Jones                                                                                                        [phone]

Mainstream Fund Services (IOM) Limited

Sapna Shah/Alex Collins/Atholl Tweedie                                                                                   [phone]

Panmure Gordon

William Clutterbuck  [phone]

Maitland/AMO

 

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