8 December 2014
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund Limited
Share buyback
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund Ltd ('VOF', the 'Company') announces that on 5 December 2014, pursuant to the share buyback authority granted to the Company's Board of Directors on 25 October 2011, Visaka Holdings Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, purchased 690,000 Ordinary Shares of USD0.01 each at an average price of USD2.656 per share.
Following this transaction, VOF has spent USD194.5 million overall repurchasing 96,889,983 shares which are held as treasury shares and have reduced the total voting rights in the Company to 227,720,276. The total number of shares acquired since November 2011 represents 29.85% of the Company's 324,610,259 ordinary shares in issue. As a result of the Company's share buyback programme, VOF has recorded USD0.41 in cumulative accretion, equating to a 13.4% benefit to VOF's net asset value per share.
More information on the Company is available at www.vinacapital.com/vof
Enquiries:
David Dropsey
VinaCapital Investment Management Limited
Investor Relations/Communications
+84 8 3821 9930
Philip Secrett
Grant Thornton UK LLP, Nominated Adviser
+44 (0)20 7383 5100
Hiroshi Funaki / Andrew Davies
Edmond de Rothschild Securities, Broker
+44 (0)20 7845 5960
David Benda / Hugh Jonathan
Numis Securities Limited, Broker
+44 (0)20 7260 1000
Andrew Walton
FTI Consulting, Public Relations (London)
+44 (0)20 7269 7204