RE: £2.5020 Jan 2025 10:56
Semnet
Prior to the start of the Period, on 6 December 2023 we announced that the Company had entered into an
agreement to acquire 66.67% of the issued share capital of Semnet Pte Ltd ("Semnet"), a cybersecurity
company based in Singapore, for a total consideration of US$1.8 million, payable through US$0.8 million in
cash and US$1.0 million in new shares in the Company. The acquisition completed prior to the start of the
Period on 29 February 2024 and Semnet is therefore consolidated in the Group results for the whole of H1 25.
The share consideration was satisfied on the nine-month anniversary of completion, as anticipated and
announced on 2 December 2024, through the provision of 58,844,713 ordinary shares in the Company to the
vendors, allocated from the 60,000,000 ordinary shares held by the Company in treasury. This ensured that
the acquisition of Semnet did not increase the issued share capital of the Company.
During the Period, Semnet has been focused on its core operations in cybersecurity and hardware across
the ASEAN region, together with providing support to the Group's other businesses. Since the completion of
the acquisition, Semnet has performed ahead of the Board’s expectations and given the wider opportunities
that Semnet is seeing, GST, in conjunction with Semnet's minority shareholders, explored options for the future
of the business.
We were therefore delighted to announce, post Period end, on 15 October 2024, the signing of a non-binding
Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") with Trident Global Capital Pte Ltd ("TGC"), led by its director, Soon
Huat Lim, who also serves as the CEO of Nasdaq-listed Trident Digital Tech Holdings Ltd (NASDAQ:TDTH). The
MOU outlined TGC's proposed role in guiding and assisting Semnet through strategic preparations for a
potential listing on NASDAQ in the US (the "Potential Listing"). This was followed on 18 November 2024 by GST
and TGC signing a legally binding Heads of Terms ("HoT") covering in more detail the assistance to be
provided by TGC to the Company with regard to the Potential Listing.