Kingswood Holdings Limited Completion of WFI and Bridge Finance Facility (2454O)
October 01 2019 - 2:00AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 2454O
Kingswood Holdings Limited
01 October 2019
1 October 2019
KINGSWOOD HOLDINGS LIMITED
("KW", "Kingswood", the "Company" or the "Group")
Completion of WFI and Bridge Finance Facility
Kingswood Holdings Limited (AIM: KWG), the integrated wealth
management group, is delighted to announce that, further to the
announcement dated 4 September 2019, it has completed the
acquisition of the business and assets of WFI Financial ("WFI"), an
independent regional financial planning business based in Sheffield
with offices also in Derby, Lincoln and Grimsby (the
"Acquisition").
The Acquisition represents the continuation of the Group's
expansion of its national wealth management footprint to the
Midlands and the North. The Acquisition will be immediately
accretive to the Group.
WFI has 16 financial planners and 17 support staff and manage in
excess of GBP550 million AUM/AUA from over 970 family clients. WFI
has a very successful track record of profitability and growth
through an expanded advisory platform, a Centralised Investment
Proposition and a lean operating structure. The Group now has c.
5,500 active clients and AUM/AUA of GBP2.5bn.
Pending the satisfaction of the FCA condition relating to Pollen
Street's investment in Convertible Preference Shares, the Company
and Pollen Street have elected to fund the Acquisition by way of a
six-month GBP3.58 million secured bridge finance facility from
Pollen Street, with a 5% rate of interest (prior to any compounding
of interest). Pollen Street has the option to capitalise the
facility into Convertible Preference Shares if the FCA condition is
satisfied within the six month term of the facility.
Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalised terms used in this
announcement shall have the same meanings as the definitions set
out in Appendix II of the announcement dated 12 September 2019.
For further details, please contact:
Kingswood Holdings Limited +44 (0)20 7293 0730
Gary Wilder / Patrick Goulding www.kingswood-group.com
finnCap Ltd (Nomad and Broker) +44 (0)20 7220 0500
Scott Mathieson / Anthony Adams - Corporate
Finance
Tim Redfern / Richard Chambers - ECM
Greentarget (PR adviser to Kingswood) +44 (0)20 7324 5498
Jamie Brownlee / Alice Gasson / Ellie Jamie.Brownlee@greentarget.co.uk
Basle
Camarco (PR adviser to Pollen Street) +44 (0)20 3757 4984
Ed Gascoigne-Pees / Jennifer Renwick ed.gascoigne-pees@camarco.co.uk
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