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JURISDICTION. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN INVITATION
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TENDER OFFER (AS DEFINED HEREIN) IN OR FROM
ANY JURISDICTION IN OR FROM WHICH, OR TO OR FROM ANY PERSON TO OR
FROM WHOM, IT IS UNLAWFUL TO MAKE SUCH OFFER UNDER APPLICABLE
SECURITIES LAWS OR OTHERWISE.
RM Infrastructure Income
Plc
(the "Company" or
"RMII")
LEI:
213800RBRIYICC2QC958
Tender
Offer
RM Infrastructure Income plc (the
"Company") announces that it has today published a circular to
Shareholders (the "Circular") which contains details of a tender
offer of up to £20 million (the "Tender Offer") to be made to
shareholders, together with a notice convening a general meeting of
the Company, to be held on 25 September 2024 at 12.00pm.
Background
Following Shareholder approval of a
new investment policy at a general meeting held on 20 December
2023, the Company has since been in a managed wind-down process.
The Board has concluded that, in order to return capital to
Shareholders from the proceeds of the Company's Loans that have
been repaid to it, the Company should undertake a Tender Offer for
a minimum of £16 million, up to £20 million. The final quantum will
be determined by reference to the amount of cash available to the
Company prior to the closing of the Tender Offer.
The Tender Offer, which is subject
to Shareholder approval, is being made at a Tender Price equal to
the prevailing Net Asset Value per Ordinary Share as at 30 August
2024, which is expected to be the prevailing Net Asset Value per
Ordinary Share at the time of announcement of (i) the final maximum
aggregate value of the Tender Offer; (ii) the final number of
Available Shares; (iii) the Tender Price; and (iv) the Basic
Entitlement percentage of Eligible Shareholders. Those details are
expected to be announced by the Company on 19 September 2024.
Completion of the Tender Offer is expected to take place on 26
September 2024.
The
Tender Offer
The Board has arranged for Singer
Capital Markets to conduct the Tender Offer at the Tender Price.
The Tender Price will be paid to tendering Shareholders in
cash.
The Tender Offer will only be open
to Eligible Shareholders on the register at 6.00 p.m. on 24
September 2024 (the Tender Record Date). The Tender Offer is
subject to certain conditions and may be suspended or terminated in
certain circumstances, as set out in the Circular.
The Tender Offer is intended to
enable those Shareholders (other than Restricted Shareholders) who
wish to sell some or all of their Ordinary Shares to elect to do
so, subject to the overall limits of the Tender Offer. Shareholders
who successfully tender Ordinary Shares will receive the Tender
Price per Ordinary Share. The Tender Price has been set at this
level to allow Shareholders who wish to realise a portion of their
holding of Ordinary Shares to do so at NAV.
An Eligible Shareholder tendering up
to their Basic Entitlement will have their tender satisfied in
full. Any Eligible Shareholder tendering more than their Basic
Entitlement will have their Excess Application satisfied if there
are sufficient remaining Available Shares. Such Available Shares
shall be apportioned to Eligible Shareholders pro rata to their
Excess Applications should other Eligible Shareholders not tender
the full amount of their Basic Entitlement and as a result of
certain Overseas Shareholders not being permitted to participate in
the Tender Offer.
In making the Tender Offer, Singer
Capital Markets will purchase the Ordinary Shares which have been
validly tendered as principal by means of an on-market purchase
from tendering Shareholders and, subject to Singer Capital Markets
requiring the Company to repurchase such Ordinary Shares in
accordance with the terms of the Repurchase Agreement, will sell
the tendered Ordinary Shares acquired by it on to the Company
pursuant to the terms of the Repurchase Agreement. All Ordinary
Shares acquired by the Company from Singer Capital Markets under
the Repurchase Agreement will be cancelled.
It remains the Board's intention to
make further distributions to Shareholders during the Company's
ongoing managed wind-down process. The timing and structure of any
further distributions (which could include returns of capital under
further tender offers) will be determined by the Board taking into
account the Company's available cash balance from time to time and
the relative costs of any such distributions in order to maximise
the value to be delivered to Shareholders in a timely
manner.
General Meeting
The implementation of the Tender
Offer requires the approval of Shareholders. A notice convening a
General Meeting of the Company, which is to be held at 12.00 p.m.
on 25 September 2024 at the offices of the RM Infrastructure Income
Plc, 6th Floor, 125 London Wall, London EC2Y 5AS, is set out in
Part 10 of the Circular.
Circular
Capitalised terms shall have the
same meaning attributed to them in the Circular unless otherwise
defined in this announcement.
The Circular can be viewed on the
Company's website at https://rm-funds.co.uk/rm-infrastructure-income/
and will be summitted to the National Storage
Mechanism and available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism shortly. In
addition, those Shareholders (other than Restricted Shareholders)
who have elected to receive hard copies of documents will receive a
copy of the Circular by post.
Expected Timetable of Principal Events
|
2024
|
Tender Offer opens
|
3
September
|
Final maximum value of Tender Offer,
number of Available Shares, Tender Price and Basic Entitlement
percentage announced
|
19
September
|
Latest time and date for receipt of
Forms of Proxy, appointments of proxy via CREST or any other
electronic voting instructions for the General Meeting
|
12.00 p.m.
on 23 September
|
Latest time and date for receipt of
Tender Forms, settlement of TTE Instructions from CREST and Tender
Offer Closing Date
|
1.00 p.m.
on 24 September
|
Tender Record Date
|
6.00 p.m.
on 24 September
|
Time and date of General
Meeting
|
12.00 p.m.
on 25 September
|
Result of General Meeting and Tender
Offer expected to be announced
|
25
September
|
Completion of the Tender
Offer
|
26
September
|
CREST settlement date: Payments
through CREST made and CREST accounts settled
|
30
September
|
Cheques and balancing share
certificates despatched to certificated Shareholders
|
Week
commencing 30 September
|
All references to times in this document are to London
time.
For
further information, please contact:
RM
Funds - Investment Manager
James Robson
Thomas Le Grix De La
Salle
|
0131 603 7060
|
Singer Capital Markets - Financial Adviser and Broker
James Maxwell
Asha Chotai
|
020 7496 3000
|
Apex Listed Funds Services (UK)
Limited - Administrator and
Company Secretary
Jenny Thompson
Sylvanus Cofie
|
020 3327 9720
|
About RM Infrastructure Income PLC
The Company aims to generate
attractive and regular dividends and positive social impact by
lending to assets at the forefront of providing essential services
to society.
Its diversified portfolio of loans
sourced or originated by the Investment Manager with a degree of
inflation protection through index-linked returns where
appropriate. Loans in which the Company invests are predominantly
secured against assets such as real estate or plant and machinery
and/or income streams such as account receivables.
For more information, please
contact James Robson at RM Funds.
About RM Funds
RM Funds is an alternative asset
manager. Founded in 2010, with offices in Edinburgh,
and London, the firm manages capital on behalf of
institutional investors, multi-asset allocators, wealth managers
and retail investors. RM Funds focuses on real asset investing
across liquid alternatives and private markets.
RM Funds is a delivery partner to
the British Business Bank in connection with the
Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme. RM Funds is a
trading name of RM Capital Markets Limited.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
This announcement contains
forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements
include all matters that are not historical facts. These
forward-looking statements are made based upon the Company's
expectations and beliefs concerning future events impacting the
Company and therefore involve a number of risks and uncertainties.
Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future
performance, and the Company's actual results of operations,
financial condition and liquidity may differ materially and
adversely from the forward-looking statements contained in this
announcement. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the day
they are made and the Company does not undertake to update its
forward-looking statements unless required by law.
The distribution of this
announcement in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. It
is the responsibility of all Overseas Shareholders to satisfy
themselves as to the observance of any legal requirements in their
jurisdiction, including, without limitation, any relevant
requirements in relation to the ability of such holders to
participate in the Tender Offer. The Tender Offer is not being made
directly or indirectly in or into the United States, Australia,
Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of South Africa or any
member state of the European Economic Area, and cannot be accepted
from within United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand,
the Republic of South Africa or any member state of the European
Economic Area.
Any decision to participate in the
Tender Offer should only be made on the basis of an
independent review by an Eligible Shareholder of the Company's
publicly available information. Neither Singer Capital Markets nor
any of its affiliates accept any liability arising from the use of,
or make any representation as to the accuracy or completeness of,
this announcement or the Company's publicly available
information.
Singer Capital Markets Securities
Limited, which conducts its UK investment banking activities as
Singer Capital Markets ("Singer Capital Markets") is authorised and
regulated in the United Kingdom by the FCA and is exclusively
advising the Company and no one else in connection with the Tender
Offer. Singer Capital Markets will not be responsible to any person
other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to
its customers, nor for providing advice in relation to the Tender
Offer or the contents of this announcement or the Circular. Nothing
in this paragraph shall serve to exclude or limit any
responsibilities which Singer Capital Markets may have under the
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended) or the
regulatory regime established thereunder.
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