from rights issue29 Jun 2018 13:47
So individual investors stumped up. Yet Merrill Lynch could not find anyone willing to buy. Funny enough underwriters Pavel Peter and their cronies got the, Results of Rump Placing and Total Voting Rights
Petropavlovsk PLC (the "Company" and, together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") announces that, following the announcement made earlier today regarding valid acceptances under the Rights Issue announced by the Company on 2 February 2015, the Company confirms that, in accordance with the Underwriting Agreement, Merrill Lynch International has endeavoured to procure subscribers for those New Ordinary Shares for which valid acceptances were not received pursuant to the Rights Issue. No subscribers have been procured for such shares. Accordingly, all the remaining New Ordinary Shares will be issued in accordance with the sub-underwriting and equivalent arrangements as described in the combined prospectus and circular dated 2 February 2015 issued by the Company (the "Prospectus").
Total issued shares and voting rights
Following the allotment of the New Ordinary Shares to reflect the shares to be issued in accordance with the sub-underwriting and equivalent arrangements as described in the Prospectus and further to the announcement of the results of the Rights Issue made earlier today, on 18 March 2015 the Company's issued share capital will consist of 3,300,561,697 Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each. The Company holds no Ordinary Shares in treasury. Assuming that there are no changes in the Ordinary Shares in respect of which the voting rights are not currently exercisable, as at 18 March 2015, the total number of voting rights will be 3,278,187,139. This figure may be used by Shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules of the Financial Conduct Authority.