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After many months of engagement, the Company is now in the final stages of securing a revolving credit facility up to a $100,000,000 with a leading UK asset manager. The discussions have progressed well whereby the Company and Asset Manager have now agreed life settlement valuation methodologies and acquisition strategies.
This facility will be a key element to enable Alpha to aggregate SLS policies to be vended into investors, in a sufficient transactional value that is relevant to the underlying buyers, whether that be a bond offering or investment portfolio. The Company expects to be able to complete the necessary documentation in a timely manner and looks forward to updating the market on closing of the facility.
The Facility allows the following key steps:
· institutional investments into SLS assets.
· Aggregate assets into investable collateral pools to be vended over to a bond issuing entity or an institutional investor's portfolio.
· The aggregation of the policies will be undertaken using leverage in a bankruptcy remote SPV, referred to by the Company as a "warehouse" entity.
· The warehouse entity has the sole purpose of borrowing funds to buy SLS Assets, which in turn will sell them to the entity that ultimately issues the bond or to the investor acquiring an assembled portfolio of policies.
· Alpha will assist in the initial incorporation of the warehouse entity, advise on the acquisition of the SLS Assets and manage the SLS Assets once acquired and transferred.
· Alpha will also act as the asset manager for the acquisition and downstream bond/investors of the SLS Assets, receiving a fee for its services.
Share Subscription to raise £0.3m
The Company is also pleased to announce that it has raised £304,500 by way of Company Subscription at a price of 1.25 pence per new share in support of this advancing business vertical. The proceeds will be used by the Company to pay pre-closing costs, which it will now need to incur with respect to legal fees and SPV inception. Accordingly, the Company has agreed to issue, conditional on admission 24,360,000 new ordinary shares of 0.1p each (the 'Subscription Shares'). The Subscription Shares will, rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares.