Results of Placing

RNS Number : 6293S

Hammerson PLC

25 September 2014

 



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Hammerson PLC

Results of Placing

Hammerson PLC ("Hammerson" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the successful completion of the placing announced earlier today (the "Placing").

A total of 71,297,452 new ordinary shares in the Company (the "Placing Shares") have been placed by Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch ("Deutsche Bank") and J.P. Morgan Securities plc, which conducts its UK investment banking business as J.P. Morgan Cazenove ("J.P. Morgan Cazenove") at a price of 560 pence per Placing Share, raising proceeds of approximately £399.3 million (before expenses).

Application will be made for the Placing Shares to be admitted to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and to trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange plc (together, "Admission"). It is expected that Admission will take place at 8.00 a.m. on 30 September 2014. The Placing is conditional upon, amongst other things, Admission becoming effective and upon the Placing Agreement not being terminated.

Following Admission the total number of shares in issue in the Company will be 784,271,986.

The Placing Shares, when issued, will be fully paid and will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of the Company including the right to receive all dividends and other distributions declared, made or paid after the date of issue of the Placing Shares.

David Atkins, Hammerson Chief Executive said: "The success of today's Placing is clear recognition of shareholders' confidence in both our strategy and our longer term growth ambitions. These proceeds will be used to acquire the remaining interest in Highcross, our major shopping centre in Leicester and to invest in the fast-growing European outlet sector and our extensive development pipeline which will all drive future income streams and create further value for our shareholders."

Enquiries:

Investor and analyst contact:
André Bentze, CFO, Hammerson France
Tel: [phone] E: [e-mail]

Media contact:
Catrin Sharp, Head of Corporate Communications
Tel: [phone] E: [e-mail]

Deutsche Bank
Charles Wilkinson
Edward Sankey
Massimo Saletti
Ben Lawrence
Tel: [phone]

J.P. Morgan Cazenove
Tim Wise
Nicholas Hall
Robert Fowlds
Paul Hewlett
Tel: [phone]

Important Notice

This announcement (the "Announcement") the information contained in it is restricted and is not for release, publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, in, into or from the United States (including its territories and possessions, any state of the United States and the District of Columbia, collectively the "United States"), Australia, Canada, Japan or South Africa or any other state or jurisdiction in which the same would be unlawful restricted, unlawful or unauthorised (each a "Restricted Territory"). This Announcement is for information purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or issue or the solicitation of an offer to buy, acquire or subscribe for shares in the capital of the Company in any Restricted Territory or to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation. Any failure to comply with these restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws of such jurisdictions. Subject to certain exemptions, the securities referred to herein may not be offered or sold in any Restricted Territory or for the account or benefit of any national resident or citizen of any Restricted Territory. The Placing Shares have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("Securities Act") or the securities laws or with any securities regulatory authority of any other state or other jurisdiction of the United States, and may not be offered, sold or transferred, directly or indirectly, in the United States absent registration under the Securities Act or an available exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and in compliance with any applicable securities laws of any other state or jurisdiction of the United States. Any offering of the Placing Shares to be made in the United States will be made only to a limited number of "qualified institutional buyers" within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act pursuant to an exemption from registration under the Securities Act in a transaction not involving any public offering and outside the United States in offshore transactions within the meaning of, and in reliance on, Regulation S under the Securities Act. No public offering of the shares referred to in this Announcement is being made in the United Kingdom, any Restricted Territory or elsewhere.

This Announcement has been issued by, and is the sole responsibility, of the Company. No representation or warranty express or implied, is or will be made as to, or in relation to, and no responsibility or liability is or will be accepted by Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch or J.P. Morgan Securities plc (the "Joint Bookrunners") or by any of their respective affiliates or agents as to or in relation to, the accuracy or completeness of this Announcement or any other written or oral information made available to or publicly available to any interested party or its advisers, and any liability therefore is expressly disclaimed.

Deutsche Bank AG is authorised under German Banking Law (competent authority: BaFin Federal Financial Supervisory Authority) and authorised and subject to limited regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom. Details of the extent of Deutsche Bank AG's authorisation and regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority are available on request. J.P. Morgan Securities plc is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority in the United Kingdom.

The Joint Bookrunners are each acting solely for the Company and on one else in connection with the Placing and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to clients of the Joint Bookrunners nor for providing advice in relation to the Placing and/or any other matter referred to in this Announcement.  Apart from the responsibilities and liabilities, if any, which may be imposed on the Joint Bookrunners by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 or by the regulatory regime established under it, neither Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch nor J.P. Morgan Securities plc or any of their respective affiliates accepts any responsibility whatsoever for the contents of the information contained in this Announcement or for any other statement made or purported to be made by or on behalf of either Joint Bookrunner or any of their respective affiliates in connection with the Company, the Placing Shares or the Placing. The Joint Bookrunners each of their respective affiliates accordingly disclaim all and any liability, whether arising in tort, contract or otherwise (save as referred to above) in respect of any statements or other information contained in this Announcement and no representation or warranty, express or implied, is made by the Joint Bookrunners or any of their respective affiliates as to the accuracy, completeness or sufficiency of the information contained in this Announcement.

The distribution of this Announcement and the offering of the Placing Shares in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. No action has been taken by the Company, the Joint Bookrunners that would permit an offering of such shares or possession or distribution of this Announcement or any other offering or publicity material relating to such shares in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required. Persons into whose possession this Announcement comes are required by the Company the Joint Bookrunners to inform themselves about, and to observe, such restrictions.

The information in this Announcement may not be forwarded or distributed to any other person and may not be reproduced in any manner whatsoever. Any forwarding, distribution, reproduction, or disclosure of this information in whole or in part is unauthorised. Failure to comply with this directive may result in a violation of the Securities Act or the applicable laws of other jurisdictions. This Announcement contains (or may contain) certain forward-looking statements with respect to certain of the Company's current expectations and projections about future events. These statements, which sometimes use words such as "aim", "anticipate", "believe", "intend", "plan" "estimate", "expect" and words of similar meaning, reflect the directors' beliefs and expectations and involve a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results and performance to differ materially from any expected future results or performance expressed or implied by the forward-looking statement.

Statements contained in this Announcement regarding past trends or activities should not be taken as a representation that such trends or activities will continue in the future. The information contained in this Announcement is subject to change without notice and, except as required by applicable law, the Company does not assume any responsibility or obligation to update publicly or review any of the forward-looking statements contained herein. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this Announcement. No statement in this Announcement is or is intended to be a profit forecast or profit estimate or to imply that the earnings of the Company for the current or future financial years will necessarily match or exceed the historical or published earnings of the Company. The price of shares and the income from them may go down as well as up and investors may not get back the full amount invested on disposal of the shares.

The Placing Shares to be issued pursuant to the Placing will not be admitted to trading on any stock exchange other than the London Stock Exchange.

Neither the content of the Company's website nor any website accessible by hyperlinks on the Company's website is incorporated in, or forms part of, this Announcement.

 

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