Issue of Equity

RNS Number : 1605T
Renewables Infrastructure Grp (The)
18 March 2019
 

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The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited

 

Issue of Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Scrip Alternative and Total Voting Rights

 

 

Issue of Ordinary Shares under the Management Agreements

 

The Board of The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited (the "Company") announces that, in accordance with the terms of the management fee arrangements with InfraRed Capital Partners Limited (the "Investment Manager") and Renewable Energy Systems Limited (the "Operations Manager") under which 20 per cent of the management fee is payable in new ordinary shares of no par value in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), it has today issued in aggregate 939,844 Ordinary Shares (the "Management Ordinary Shares"), subject only to Admission (defined below). 

 

The issue price per Management Ordinary Share is 107.275p, which is the 31 December 2018 NAV of 108.9p less the 1.625p dividend paid for the period.

 

Pursuant to the terms of (a) the Investment Management Agreement between, inter alia, the Company and the Investment Manager dated 5 July 2013 (the "Investment Management Agreement") and (b) the Operations Management Agreement between, inter alia, the Company and the Operations Manager dated 5 July 2013 (the "Operations Management Agreement"), 610,899 and 328,945 new Ordinary Shares have been allotted to the Investment Manager and the Operations Manager respectively. This is for the period from 1 July to 31 December 2018.

 

The Ordinary Shares allotted and issued to the Investment Manager and Operations Manager set out above are subject to a lock up of one year from Admission.

 

Issue of Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Company's Scrip Dividend Alternative

 

The Board of the Company announces that, pursuant to the Company's scrip dividend alternative in lieu of cash for the interim dividend for the three months ended 31 December 2018, elections for the scrip dividend alternative were received in respect of 3.99% of the Ordinary Shares in issue as at the record date of 15 February 2019.  As a consequence, the Company has today issued 648,747 Ordinary Shares (the "Scrip Shares"), subject only to Admission (defined below).

 

When issued, the Scrip Shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares.  

 

A copy of the document relating to the Scrip Dividend Alternative dated 29 March 2018 is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism  www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and can also be obtained from the Company Secretary or from the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at www.trig-ltd.com.

 

Admission

 

Application has been made for the Scrip Shares to be admitted to the premium segment of the Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities.  It is expected that dealings in the Management Ordinary Shares and Scrip Shares will commence at 8.00 a.m. on 29 March 2019 ("Admission").

 

Total Voting Rights

 

In accordance with the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue on Admission will be 1,179,961,346 each with one voting right.   No Ordinary Shares are held in treasury.

 

The above figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company, under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

Enquiries

 

InfraRed Capital Partners Limited

Richard Crawford

Phil George

 

+44 (0) 20 7484 1800

Tulchan Communications

Martin Pengelley

 

+44 (0) 20 7353 4200

Canaccord Genuity Limited

Andrew Zychowski

Lucy Lewis

 

+44 (0) 20 7523 8000

Liberum Capital Limited

Steve Pearce

Chris Clarke

 

+44 (0) 20 3100 2000

 

 

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