5 Jan 2016 10:56
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THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS AN ADVERTISEMENT AND IS NOT AN OFFER TO SELL OR THE SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY ANY SECURITIES. IT IS NOT A PROSPECTUS OR PROSPECTUS EQUIVALENT DOCUMENT. INVESTORS SHOULD NOT SUBSCRIBE FOR OR PURCHASE ANY SHARES REFERRED TO IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT EXCEPT SOLELY ON THE BASIS OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE PROSPECTUS TO BE PUBLISHED BY GULFSANDS PETROLEUM PLC IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROPOSED CAPITAL RAISING.
Gulfsands Petroleum Plc
Extension of Open Offer Closing Date
5 January 2016
Further to its announcement on 16 December 2015 regarding the publication of the Open Offer Prospectus, Gulfsands Petroleum Plc ("Gulfsands" or the "Company") announces that it will extend the latest time and date for receipt of completed Application Forms and payment in full under the Open Offer, or settlement of relevant CREST instructions (as appropriate), from 11.00 a.m. on 5 January 2016 to 11.00 a.m. on 12 January 2016 in order to give Shareholders who have not yet applied for Open Offer Shares the opportunity to do so. The revised timetable of principal events is detailed below.
In accordance with section 87G of FSMA and paragraph 3.4 of the Prospectus Rules, following the decision by the Company to extend the Open Offer timetable it intends to publish a supplementary prospectus which will be posted to Shareholders in due course, which will be announced separately via a Regulatory Information Service.
Capitalised terms in this announcement are as defined in the Prospectus unless the context otherwise requires.
Revised Timetable of Principal Events
Recommended latest time for requesting withdrawal of Open Offer Entitlements from CREST
| 4.30 p.m. on 6 January 2016 | |
Latest time for depositing Open Offer Entitlements into CREST
| 3.00 p.m. on 7 January 2016 | |
Latest time and date for splitting of Application Forms
| 3.00 p.m. on 8 January 2016 | |
Latest time and date for receipt of completed Application Forms, and payment in full under the Open Offer or settlement of relevant CREST instructions (as appropriate)
| 11.00 a.m. on 12 January 2016 | |
Admission effective and trading expected to commence in the Open Offer Shares
| 8.00 a.m. on 14 January 2016 | |
CREST members' accounts credited in respect of Open Offer Shares in uncertificated form
| As soon as possible after 8.00 a.m. on 14 January 2016 | |
Share certificates in respect of Open Offer Shares expected to be dispatched by no later than
| 21 January 2016 | |
Open Offer Long Stop Date
| 31 January 2016 | |
For further information please contact:
Gulfsands Petroleum Plc Alastair Beardsall, Chairman
| +44 (0)20 7024 2130 |
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe Sarah Wharry David Porter
| +44 (0)20 7894 7000 |
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This announcement is not a prospectus and Qualifying Shareholders should not acquire any Open Offer Shares referred to in this announcement except on the basis of the information contained in the Prospectus.
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The Open Offer Shares have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act or with any securities regulatory authority of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States and, accordingly, may not be offered, sold, resold, taken up, transferred, delivered or distributed, directly or indirectly, within the United States except in reliance on an exemption from the registration requirements of the US Securities Act and in compliance with any applicable securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States.
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