26 Mar 2018 07:00
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
26 March 2018
Sabien Technology Group plc
("Sabien" or the "Company")
GBP400,000 Fundraise at Premium
Appointment of Sole Broker
Director's Dealings
Total Voting Rights
Sabien Technology Group plc is pleased to announce that Peterhouse Corporate Finance Limited has raised gross proceeds of £400,000 via the placing of 80,000,000 new ordinary shares (the "Placing Shares") with new and existing investors, at a price of 0.5 pence (the "Placing Price") per Placing Share (the "Placing"). The Placing has been completed at a 25 per cent. premium to the closing mid-market price on 22 March 2018 of 0.4 pence.
Appointment of Broker
Sabien is also pleased to announce that it has appointed Peterhouse Corporate Finance Limited as Sole Broker to the Company, effective immediately.
Admission of the Placing Shares
Once issued, the Placing shares will rank pari passu with the Company's existing ordinary shares. Application will be made for the Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and it is expected that such Admission will become effective on or around 29 March 2018.
Director's Participation
A Director has agreed to subscribe for Placing Shares in the Placing at the Placing Price as per the table below (the "Director's Participation"):
Director | Number of Ordinary Shares pursuant to Placing | Beneficial shareholding following Placing | Percentage of Ordinary Shares as enlarged by the Placing |
Bruce Gordon - Chairman | 14,768,479 | 44,768,479 | 23.54% |
B. Gordon is also a director of Thames Valley Capital Limited, an advisor to TVI 2 Limited, which holds 4,108,356 ordinary shares in the Company. He is therefore interested, directly and indirectly, in 48,876,835 Ordinary shares, representing 25.69% of the enlarged issued share capital.
The Director's Participation as set out above ("the Transaction") is a related party transaction under the AIM Rules. The Directors, independent of the Transaction, consider, having consulted with the Company's Nominated Adviser, that the terms of the Transaction are fair and reasonable so far as shareholders of the Company are concerned.
Total Voting Rights
Following Admission, there will be 190,254,867 Ordinary Shares in issue. The figure of 190,254,867 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Sabien under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
The following information relating to the transaction has been filed with the FCA in accordance with Article 19(1) of the Market Abuse Regulation,
Bruce Gordon
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
a) | Name | Bruce Gordon
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2 | Reason for notification | |||||
a) | Position / status | Chairman
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b) | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial | ||||
3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name | Sabien Technology Group plc
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b) | LEI | 213800S5QG1SMGHFHY68 | ||||
4 | Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted | |||||
a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code | Ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in Sabien Technology Group plc
GB00B1FPCD38 | ||||
| Nature of the transaction | Purchase of ordinary shares | ||||
c) | Price(s) and volumes(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information | n/a | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 23 March 2018 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | LSE, AIM (XLON) | ||||
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014.
For further information:
Sabien Technology Group plc +44(0)20 7993 3700
Alan O'Brien
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Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nominated Advisor) +44(0)20 7628 3396
Michael Cornish and Roland Cornish www.beaumontcornish.com
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Peterhouse Corporate Finance Limited (Sole Broker)+44 (0) 20 7469 0930 Martin Lampshire and Fungai Ndoro |
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Sabien Tech. (SNT)