20 Feb 2014 15:57
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN IT IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN, SOUTH AFRICA OR THE UNITED STATES OR INTO ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO MIGHT CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OR BREACH OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW. PLEASE SEE THE IMPORTANT NOTICE AT THE END OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, WHICH DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A PROSPECTUS OR DOCUMENT EQUIVALENT TO A PROSPECTUS, IS NOT AN OFFER TO SELL OR THE SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY ANY SECURITIES AND NEITHER THIS ANNOUNCEMENT NOR ANYTHING HEREIN FORMS THE BASIS FOR ANY CONTRACT OR COMMITMENT WHATSOEVER.
CAPITALISED TERMS USED IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM IN THE PROSPECTUS.
Flybe Group plc
('Flybe' or 'the Company')
Publication of Prospectus
The prospectus of the Company dated 20 February 2014 (the "Prospectus") relating to the proposed Firm Placing and Placing and Open Offer announced earlier today has been approved by the Financial Conduct Authority and has been published. The Prospectus will be posted to shareholders today and has also been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism where it will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
In addition, the Prospectus will shortly be available to view on the website of the Company, www.flybe.com/corporate/investors, and copies of the Prospectus will be made available at the Company's registered office at Jack Walker House, Exeter International Airport, Exeter EX5 2HL.
20 February 2014
Enquiries:
Instinctif Partners | Tel: +44 20 7457 2020 |
Mark Garraway | |
Helen Tarbet |
IMPORTANT NOTICE
This announcement is an advertisement and does not constitute a prospectus or prospectus equivalent document. Nothing in this announcement should be interpreted as a term or condition of the Firm Placing and Placing and Open Offer. Investors should not subscribe for any New Ordinary Shares in the Firm Placing and Placing and Open Offer except on the basis of the information contained in the Prospectus or which is incorporated by reference into the Prospectus. The Prospectus will be made available on the Company's website (www.flybe.com/corporate/investors) and will be available for inspection at: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
This announcement does not constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to purchase, or otherwise acquire, subscribe for, sell, otherwise dispose of or issue, or any solicitation of any offer to sell, otherwise dispose of, issue, purchase, otherwise acquire or subscribe for, any security in the capital of the Company in any jurisdiction.
The information contained in this announcement is not for release, publication or distribution to persons in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan or South Africa or in any jurisdiction where to do so would breach any applicable law. The New Ordinary Shares have not been and will not be registered under the securities laws of such jurisdictions and may not be offered, sold, taken up, exercised, resold, renounced, transferred or delivered, directly or indirectly, within such jurisdictions except pursuant to an exemption from and in compliance with any applicable securities laws. No public offer of the New Ordinary Shares is being made by virtue of this announcement into the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan or South Africa or any other jurisdiction outside the United Kingdom in which such offer would be unlawful.
The New Ordinary Shares, the Open Offer Entitlements and the Excess Open Offer Entitlements have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or under the applicable securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States or qualified for distribution under any applicable securities laws in any of the Excluded Territories. Accordingly, the New Ordinary Shares, the Open Offer Entitlements and Excess Open Offer Entitlements are being offered only outside of the United States in offshore transactions in reliance on Regulation S ("Regulation S") under the Securities Act. The New Ordinary Shares, the Open Offer Entitlements and the Excess Open Offer Entitlements may not be offered, sold, taken up, resold, transferred or delivered, directly or indirectly, within the United States (as defined in Rule 902 under Regulation S) except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state or local securities laws.
This announcement has been issued by and is the sole responsibility of the Company.
Liberum Capital Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority, is acting for Flybe Group plc and for no-one else in connection with the contents of this announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than Flybe Group plc for providing the protections afforded to clients of Liberum Capital Limited, or for providing advice in relation to the contents of this announcement or any matters referred to herein.
This announcement has been prepared for the purposes of complying with the applicable law and regulation of the United Kingdom and the 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 any jurisdiction outside of the United Kingdom.