28 Feb 2018 07:00
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28 February 2018
AVEVA GROUP PLC ("AVEVA" or "the Company")
Admission and resultant total voting rights
AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software, announces that application has been made to the UK Listing Authority and the London Stock Exchange for admission of the 97,169,655 Consideration Shares to be issued to Schneider Electric Group and re-admission of the Company's 64,037,660 existing Ordinary Shares to the premium listing segment of the Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's Main Market for listed securities on 1 March 2018.
Following admission AVEVA's share capital will be 161,207,315 ordinary shares and the total number of voting rights will be 161,207,315. Following admission the above total voting rights figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine whether they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the Rules.
Enquiries:
AVEVA | |
Philip Aiken Craig Hayman James Kidd Matt Springett | Tel: +44 (0) 1223 55 6655 |
Lead Financial Adviser to AVEVA
Lazard | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7187 2000 |
Cyrus Kapadia Richard Hoyle Philippe Noël |
Corporate Broker, Sponsor and Financial Adviser to AVEVA
Numis | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7260 1000 |
Simon Willis Jamie Lillywhite |
Financial PR Adviser to AVEVA
FTI Consulting | Tel: +44 (0) 20 3727 1000 |
Edward Bridges |
IMPORTANT NOTICES:
Lazard & Co., Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority, is acting as financial adviser to AVEVA and no one else in connection with the Combination and will not be responsible to anyone other than AVEVA for providing the protections afforded to clients of Lazard & Co., Limited nor for providing advice in relation to the Combination or any other matters referred to in this announcement. Neither Lazard & Co., Limited nor any of its affiliates owes or accepts any duty, liability or responsibility whatsoever (whether direct or indirect, whether in contract, in tort, under statute or otherwise) to any person who is not a client of Lazard & Co., Limited in connection with this announcement, the Combination or any statement contained herein.
Numis Securities Limited ("Numis"), which is authorised and regulated in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority, is acting as corporate broker and sponsor to AVEVA and no one else in connection with the Combination and will not be responsible to anyone other than AVEVA for providing the protections afforded to clients of Numis nor for providing advice in relation to the Combination or any other matters referred to in this announcement. Neither Numis nor any of its affiliates owes or accepts any duty, liability or responsibility whatsoever (whether direct or indirect, whether in contract, in tort, under statute or otherwise) to any person who is not a client of Numis, in connection with this announcement, the Combination or any statement contained herein.
Neither this announcement nor any copy of it may be taken or transmitted directly or indirectly into Australia, Canada, the Republic of South Africa, Japan, the United States or to any persons in any of those jurisdictions, except in compliance with applicable securities laws. Any failure to comply with this restriction may constitute a violation of Australian, Canadian, South African, Japanese, or US securities laws. The distribution of this announcement in other jurisdictions may be restricted by law and persons into whose possession this announcement or other information referred to herein comes should inform themselves about, and observe, any such restrictions.
This announcement does not constitute or form part of any offer, invitation to sell, otherwise dispose of or issue, or any solicitation of any offer to purchase or subscribe for, any shares or other securities nor shall it or any part of it, nor the fact of its distribution form the basis of, or be relied on in connection with, any contract commitment or investment decision.
This announcement has been prepared for the purpose of complying with the applicable law and regulation of the United Kingdom and information disclosed may not be the same as that which would have been disclosed if this announcement had been prepared in accordance with the laws and regulations of jurisdictions outside the United Kingdom.
This announcement does not constitute an offer of securities for sale in the United States or an offer to acquire or exchange securities in the United States. No offer to acquire securities or to exchange securities for other securities has been made, or will be made, directly or indirectly, in or into, or by use of the mails, any means or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce or any facilities of a national securities exchange of, the United States or any other country in which such offer may not be made other than (i) in accordance with the tender offer requirements under the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the securities laws of such other country, as the case may be, or (ii) pursuant to an available exemption from such requirements.