Offer to Purchase Warrants in the Company (9125R)
November 11 2011 - 2:01AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMPAL
RNS Number : 9125R
Equatorial Palm Oil plc
11 November 2011
EQUATORIAL PALM OIL plc
("EPO" or the "Company")
Offer to Purchase Warrants in the Company
11 November 2011
Equatorial Palm Oil plc, (AIM: PAL), the AIM listed palm oil
development company with operations in Liberia, announces that it
has made an offer to warrant holders to purchase and subsequently
cancel a total 18,790,295 warrants in the Company (the
"Offer").
All placees who subscribed pursuant to a placing at the time of
the Company's admission to trading on AIM in February 2010 received
a bonus warrant for every two shares which were placed at that time
(the "Warrants"). The Warrants are due to expire on 26 February
2012 (the "Warrant Expiry Date") and are exercisable at a price of
17.5 pence.
The terms of the Warrants are such that only the Company is able
to purchase them, by private treaty or otherwise, at any price, and
require the Company to cancel the Warrants upon purchase. In
addition, entities associated with two directors of the Company,
Michael Frayne and Joe Jaoudi, and a substantial shareholder in the
Company, BioPalm Energy Limited, wish to purchase all of the
Warrants (the "Warrant Purchasers").
In order to facilitate this purchase, the Company has made the
Offer on the condition that all Warrants purchased in accordance
with the Offer will be cancelled and that an equal number of new
warrants, which will contain equivalent terms, will be issued to
the Warrant Purchasers as soon as is practicable thereafter.
Each warrant holder has been offered 0.5 pence per Warrant and
under the terms of the Offer has until 12 December 2011 to accept
the Offer (the "Warrant Offer Period"). The total maximum
consideration payable, should all warrant holders accept the Offer,
is c. GBP93,951. All Warrants held by warrant holders who choose
not to accept the Offer will continue to be exercisable on existing
terms until the Warrant Expiry Date.
A further announcement will be made by the Company at the end of
the Warrant Offer Period.
For further information, please contact:
Equatorial Palm Oil plc
Michael Frayne (Chairman) +44 (0) 20 7766
www.epoil.co.uk 7555
Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated Adviser)
+44 (0) 20 7409
James Harris / Paul Cocker 3494
Mirabaud Securities LLP (Broker)
+44 (0) 20 7484
Peter Krens 3510
Pelham Bell Pottinger (Financial/ Corporate
PR) +44 (0) 20 7861
Archie Berens / Philippe Polman 3126
This information is provided by RNS
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