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CleanTech Lithium
PLC
("CleanTech Lithium" or
the "Company")
Results of Retail Offer and
update on the Broker Option
10 March 2025 - CleanTech Lithium
(AIM: CTL), an innovative sustainable lithium developer, is
pleased to announce the results of its retail offer to existing
shareholders (the "Retail
Offer"). The Retail Offer remains conditional on shareholder
approval.
The Retail Offer raised gross
proceeds of £143,980 which will be in addition to the £2.4 million
raised pursuant to the Placing as announced 11th
February 2025.
There was no take up under the
Broker Option.
Results of the Retail Offer
899,873 new ordinary
shares ("Retail Offer
Shares") will be issued to existing retail shareholders who
subscribed via the BookBuild platform at a price of 16 pence per
Retail Offer Share (the "Issue
Price") pursuant to the Retail Offer.
The Retail Offer Shares carry a
warrant entitlement of one warrant ("Warrant") for every Retail Offer Share
issued pursuant to the Retail offer. Each Warrant grants the holder
the right to subscribe for one new ordinary share at a price of
11p, being approximately 31% per cent. below the Issue Price, at
any time from 14 February 2026 until up to and including 14
February 2029.
A total of 899,873 Retail Offer
Shares will therefore be issued pursuant to the Retail Offer
representing approximately 0.9 per cent. of the Company's
enlarged ordinary share capital following admission of the Retail
Offer Shares to trading on AIM ("Admission").
The Issue Price
represents approximately 41 per cent. premium to the closing
price of 11.38 pence on 7 March 2025.
The Retail Offer Shares will, when
issued, be credited as fully paid and will rank pari passu in all
respects with the existing ordinary shares of the Company,
including the right to receive all dividends or other distributions
made, paid or declared in respect of such shares after the date of
issue of the Retail Offer Shares.
As previously announced, the
proceeds of the Retail Offer Shares will be used to reduce the
balance outstanding of the Loan Notes taken out in late June
2024.
The Company also announces that no
new ordinary shares will be issued pursuant to the Broker Option
granted to Fox-Davies Capital Limited.
General Meeting and Posting of Circular
The Retail Offer is subject to
shareholder approval at the general meeting of the Company,
expected to be held on 24 March 2025 at 11:00AM (the
"General Meeting"). The
Company published a shareholder circular on the 4th
March 2025 to convene the General Meeting, which is available on
the Company's website https://ctlithium.com/investors/circulars-documents/.
Admission and Trading
Subject to approval being given at
the General Meeting, application will be made to London Stock
Exchange for the Retail Offer Shares to be admitted to trading on
AIM. It is currently expected that Admission will become effective,
and trading of the Retail Offer Shares will commence on AIM,
at 8.00 a.m. on 25 March 2025.
Total voting rights
Following the issue and Retail Offer
Shares, the Company will have a total of 100,346,774 Ordinary
Shares in issue. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in
treasury and accordingly the total number of voting rights in the
Company will be 100,346,774.
With effect from Admission, this
figure 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 the
Company, under the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules of
the Financial Conduct Authority.
Words and expressions defined in the Company's announcements
of 10 and 17 February 2025 shall have the same meaning in
this announcement.
Steve Kesler, Executive Chairman of CleanTech Lithium,
said:
"Thank you to the existing retail
shareholders that have supported CleanTech Lithium in this recent
fundraising, sharing our positive outlook for lithium demand and
our confidence in our strategy for the Company.
Our key milestones over the next few
months are completing the PFS for Laguna Verde, scaling
battery-grade lithium carbonate production for strategic partners
to test, and advancing the Special Lithium Operating Contract
(CEOL) process with the Chilean Government. Alongside this, we are
actively pursuing our dual listing on the ASX."
Latest time and date for receipt of
CREST voting instructions
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11.00 a.m.
on 20 March 2025
|
Latest time and date for receipt of
Forms of Proxy
|
11.00 a.m.
on 22 March 2025
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General Meeting
|
11.00 a.m.
on 24 March 2025
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Result of the General Meeting
announced
|
24 March
2025
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Admission and dealings in the
Retail Offer Shares expected to commence on
AIM
|
25 March
2025
|
Where applicable, expected date for
CREST accounts to be credited in respect of the Retail Offer Shares and attached
warrants in uncertificated form
|
25 March
2025
|
Where applicable, expected date for
despatch of definitive certificates for the Retail Offer Shares and attached
warrants in certificated form
|
within 14
days of Admission
|
Expected Timetable of Principle
Events
For
further information contact:
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CleanTech Lithium PLC
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Steve Kesler/Gordon Stein/Nick
Baxter
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Jersey office: +44 (0) 1534 668
321
Chile office: +56 9 312
00081
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Or via Celicourt
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Celicourt Communications
Felicity Winkles/Philip Dennis/Ali
AlQahtani
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+44 (0) 20 7770 6424
cleantech@celicourt.uk
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Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nominated Adviser)
Roland Cornish/Asia
Szusciak
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+44 (0) 20 7628 3396
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Fox-Davies Capital Limited (Joint Broker)
Daniel Fox-Davies
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+44 (0) 20 3884 8450
daniel@fox-davies.com
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Canaccord Genuity (Joint Broker)
James Asensio
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+44 (0) 20 7523 4680
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Beaumont Cornish Limited ("Beaumont Cornish") is the Company's
Nominated Adviser and is authorised and regulated by the FCA.
Beaumont Cornish's responsibilities as the Company's Nominated
Adviser, including a responsibility to advise and guide the Company
on its responsibilities under the AIM Rules for Companies and AIM
Rules for Nominated Advisers, are owed solely to the London Stock
Exchange. Beaumont Cornish is not acting for and will not be
responsible to any other persons for providing protections afforded
to customers of Beaumont Cornish nor for advising them in relation
to the proposed arrangements described in this announcement or any
matter referred to in it.
Notes
CleanTech Lithium (AIM:CTL) is an
exploration and development company advancing lithium projects
in Chile for the clean energy transition. Committed to
net-zero, CleanTech Lithium's mission is to become a new supplier
of battery grade lithium using Direct Lithium Extraction technology
powered by renewable energy.
CleanTech Lithium has two key
lithium projects in Chile, Laguna Verde and Viento Andino, and
exploration stage projects in Llamara and Arenas Blancas
(Salar de Atacama), located in the lithium triangle, a leading
centre for battery grade lithium production. The two most advanced
projects: Laguna Verde and Viento Andino are situated
within basins controlled by the Company, which affords significant
potential development and operational advantages. All four projects
have good access to existing infrastructure.
CleanTech Lithium is committed to
utilising Direct Lithium Extraction with reinjection of spent brine
resulting in no aquifer depletion. Direct Lithium Extraction is a
transformative technology which removes lithium from brine with
higher recoveries, short development lead times and no extensive
evaporation pond construction. www.ctlithium.com
**ENDS**