Letter from Elizabeth22 Oct 2020 10:28
Dear Mr C************
Thank you for your email and apologies for the delay in getting back to you. In answer to your questions:
You will retain your Premier shares with Premier's shareholders now owning c. 5-5.45% of the Combined Group. So if you owned 5% of Premier, you will now own approximately 0.25% of the Combined Group on completion of the merger.
It is hard to put a market valuation on the Combined Group given Chrysaor is not a quoted company. That said, the Combined Group will be similar in size to that of the Norwegian E&Ps – Aker BP and Lundin – in terms of production, reserves and balance sheet. It would therefore not be unreasonable to expect that the market cap of the Combined Group would be similar to that of AkerBP and Lundin who have a market cap of c. $5-6bn. With 5-5.45% in the Combined Group, that would put Premier’s market cap today at c. $300m.
While some shareholders are disappointed that we are not going ahead with the standalone refi/BP Acquisitions, they recognise the strong industrial and financial logic for the merger and that in the current environment it is probably better to be investing in a bigger company with stronger balance sheet rather than smaller E&P.
Kind regards, Elizabeth
From: harrycarson18
Sent: 14 October 2020 16:59
To: London Reception
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Merger and consequential impact.
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Sir/Madam
As a shareholder of the company ( Premier Oil) please confirm the anticipated change in value ( not in monetary terms) in terms of percentage of value increase/ decrease of each share before and after.
ie: 1 share is currently worth 1 share.
After the merger what will the ratio be?
Also, will current private shareholders be materially and financially better off if and when the merger happens.
Clearly these are questions at the forefront of the management's discussion. After all, the principal function of management is to work on behalf of the shareholders. And as I am a shareholder I must assume that the management decisions have been made with me, and other shareholders, in mind. After all, what type of management would abuse the trust placed in them?
I shall ask about ARCM after your reply to this email. It's quite a task reconciling all of the statements, dates FCA fines, RNS's, SP, debt reduction, bondholders etc. Whew!
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours
T H Carson
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