AQUA – Contemplated secondary placing
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Braemar Shipping Services PLC (“Braemar”) has retained Sparebank 1 Markets AS (the “Bookrunner”) as sole bookrunner to explore the sale of up to 9,600,000 existing shares in AqualisBraemar LOC ASA (the “Company” or “Aqualis”), representing approximately 10.37% of the share capital and voting rights in the Company (the “Placing”). The Placing is to be conducted as an accelerated bookbuilding process.
The bookbuilding process will commence immediately following the publication of this announcement and may be closed at short notice at the full discretion of the Bookrunner. A further announcement will be made following pricing of the shares in the Placing. Braemar reserves the right, at its own discretion, to sell fewer shares or no shares at all. Assuming all the shares available in the Placing are sold, Braemar will hold 9,640,621 shares in Aqualis.
Braemar currently holds 19,240,621 shares in the Company, equivalent to 20.79% of the share capital and voting rights. Braemar will enter into a customary 90 days lock-up for its remaining shares in the Company not sold in the Placing. Braemar is represented on the Board of Directors of the Company, through board member Ron Series.
For further information, please contact the Bookrunner:
Sparebank 1 Markets: +47 24 14 74 70
IMPORTANT NOTICE
This announcement is not for publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States of America. This announcement is not an offer of securities for sale into the United States. The securities referred to herein have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States, except pursuant to an applicable exemption from registration. No public offering of securities is being made in the United States.
This announcement is not an offer of securities or investments for sale or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities or investments in any jurisdiction where such offer or solicitation would be unlawful. No action has been taken that would permit an offering of the securities or possession or distribution of this announcement in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required. Persons into whose possession this announcement comes are required to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions. Any failure to comply with these restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
In member states of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) (each, a “relevant member state”), this announcement and any offer if made subsequently is directed exclusively at persons who are “qualified investors” within the meaning of the prospectus regulation (“qualified investors”). For these purposes, the expression “prospectus regulation” means regulation (EU) 2017/1129.
In the United Kingdom this announcement is directed exclusively at qualified investors (i) who have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within article 19(5) of the financial services and markets act 2000 (financial promotion) order 2005, as amended (the “order”) or (ii) who fall within article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the order, and (iii) to whom it may otherwise lawfully be communicated.
In connection with the placing, the bookrunner and any of its affiliates acting as an investor for their own account may take up as a principal position any shares and in that capacity may retain, purchase or sell for their own account such shares. In addition, the bookrunner or its affiliates may enter into financing arrangements and swaps with investors in connection with which the bookrunner (or its affiliates) may from time to time acquire, hold or dispose of shares. The bookrunner does not intend to disclose the extent of any such investment or transactions otherwise than in accordance with any legal or regulatory obligation to do so.
No guarantee can be made that any securities will be sold pursuant to the placing.
The bookrunner is acting on behalf of the seller and no one else in connection with the placing and will not be responsible to any other person for providing the protections afforded to clients of the bookrunner or for providing advice in relation to the placing.