Result of General Meeting

RNS Number : 7017S

Serica Energy plc

11 November 2013

 



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11 November 2013

Serica Energy plc

("Serica" or the "Company")

Result of General Meeting

Serica Energy plc (TSX & AIM: SQZ), the UK-based oil and gas company with exploration interests in the emerging Atlantic margins offshore Ireland, Morocco and Namibia and exploration and development assets in the UK and Norway, is pleased to announce that at its General Meeting held earlier today, all of the resolutions as set out in the Circular dated 22 October 2013 were duly passed.

Further to the result of the Open Offer announcement released this morning, the Capital Raising remains conditional on certain customary conditions up to and including Admission, which is expected to occur no later than 8.00 a.m. on 15 November 2013.

Tony Craven-Walker, Non-Executive Chairman and Interim CEO of Serica Energy, said:

"We are delighted with the support we have received from both existing and new investors throughout the course of the Capital Raising. The proceeds will be used to fund our busy work programme, as well as allowing us to take advantage of early-entrant opportunities, as we move into a potentially transformational period of the Company's development."

All defined terms in this announcement shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the announcement of 22 October 2013.

Enquiries:

Serica Energy plc
Tony Craven Walker Chairman & Interim CEO	[e-mail]	[phone]
Mitch Flegg, COO	[e-mail]	[phone]
Chris Hearne, CFO	[e-mail]	[phone]
Peel Hunt LLP
Richard Crichton	[e-mail]	[phone]
Charles Batten	[e-mail]	[phone]
RBC Capital Markets
Matthew Coakes	[e-mail]	[phone]
Daniel Conti	[e-mail]	[phone]
College Hill
David Simonson	[e-mail]	[phone]
Catherine Wickman	[e-mail]	[phone]
Alexandra Roper	[e-mail]	[phone]

This announcement is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy the securities of Serica Energy plc (the "Company", and such securities, the "Securities") in the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, or in any other jurisdiction where such offer or sale would be unlawful.

The Securities have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act"), or with any securities regulatory authority of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States, and may not be offered, sold, resold, pledged, taken up, exercised, renounced, delivered, distributed or transferred, directly or indirectly, into or within the United States except pursuant to an 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 state or other jurisdiction of the United States. No public offering of the Securities is being made in the United States.

 

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