17 July
2024
Tufton Oceanic Assets
Limited
(The
"Company")
Compulsory Redemption of
Shares
Further to the resolutions passed by
the Company's shareholders at its Extraordinary General Meeting on
11 June 2024 to enable compulsory redemptions of the Company's
ordinary shares ("Shares"),
the Company today announces that it will return approximately
US$31.5m by way of a compulsory redemption of up to 20,328,259
Shares (the "Redemption").
The Redemption will be effected at a
price of US$1.550 per Share, being the NAV per Share as at 30 June
2024, pro-rata to holdings of Shares on the Company's
register of members at close of business on 14 August 2024 (the
"Redemption Date"), being
the record date for the Redemption. As at today's date, the Company
has 291,082,541 Shares in issue with voting rights and 17,546,000
Shares held in treasury.
On this basis, a holder of 100,000
Shares will have 6,983 Shares redeemed, and receive US$10,823.65 in
cash.
Fractions of Shares will not be
redeemed and so the number of Shares to be compulsorily redeemed
from each Shareholder will be rounded down to the nearest whole
number of Shares.
Payments of redemption monies are
expected to be effected either through CREST (in the case of Shares
held in uncertificated form) on 28 August 2024 or by electronic
bank transfer or cheque (in the case of Shares held in certificated
form) to be enclosed with new share certificates. Any share
certificates currently in issue will be superseded by a new share
certificate which will be distributed to certificated Shareholders
in the week commencing 26 August 2024.
All Shares that are redeemed will be
cancelled. Accordingly, once redeemed, such Shares will be
incapable of transfer by Shareholders or reissue by the
Company.
The Shares will be disabled in CREST
after close of business on the Redemption Date and the existing
ISIN number, GG00BDFC1649, (the "Old ISIN") will expire.
The
new ISIN number, GG00BSFVPB94, (the "New ISIN") in respect of the
remaining Shares, which will not have been redeemed, will be
enabled and available for transactions after 8.00 a.m. on 15 August
2024.
Up to and including the Redemption
Date, the Shares will continue to be traded under the Old ISIN and
as such, a purchaser of such Shares who was not on the register as
at the record date for the Redemption would have a market claim for
a proportion of the redemption proceeds following the activation of
the New ISIN. CREST will automatically transform any open
transactions as at the Redemption Date to the New ISIN.
Shareholders should note that the
Board retains absolute discretion as to the execution, extent and
timing of any further redemptions.
Currency
Election
Redemption monies will be paid in
the same currency (US Dollars or GBP Sterling) that each
Shareholder is paid dividends. If any certificated or
uncertificated Shareholder wishes to receive redemption monies in a
currency (US Dollars or GBP Sterling) that is different from its
dividend payments, it should complete and return a redemption
currency election form to Computershare Investor Services plc, The
Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol, BS99 6AH no later than 1.00
p.m. on 14 August 2024. A copy of this form is available on the
Company's website at http://www.tuftonoceanicassets.com/company-documents/.
Please note that, unlike dividend currency elections, Shareholders
cannot elect to switch the currency in which they receive proceeds
of the Redemption through the CREST platform. Any redemption
currency election forms submitted shall relate only to the proceeds
of the current Redemption and will not endure.
2Q24
Dividend
The Company announced its Net Asset
Value for the three months ending 30 June 2024 earlier today. For
the avoidance of doubt, the record date for the Company's quarterly
dividend for the three months ending 30 June 2024 (the
"2Q24 Dividend") is 26 July
2024, which precedes the record date for the Redemption.
Accordingly, Shareholders will be eligible to receive both the 2Q24
Dividend and proceeds from the Compulsory Redemption on the basis
they continue to own Shares on each of the 2Q24 Dividend record
date and the Redemption record date.
Expected timetable for
Redemption
The anticipated dates and sequence
of events relating to the implementation of the Redemption are set
out below:
Latest time to submit currency
election form for the Redemption
|
Close of business on 14 August
2024
|
Redemption Record Date
|
Close of business on 14 August
2024
|
Redemption Date and expiry of Old
ISIN
|
After close of business on 14 August
2024
|
Redemption Ex Date
|
15 August 2024
|
New ISIN enabled
|
15 August 2024
|
Cheques in respect of Redemption
monies and new share certificates to be posted to certificated
shareholders
|
Week commencing 26 August
2024
|
Electronic payments in respect of
Redemption monies to be paid to certificated
shareholders
|
28 August 2024
|
CREST Accounts credited in respect
of Redemption monies to be paid to uncertificated
shareholders
|
28 August 2024
|
Capitalised terms used but not
defined in this announcement will have the same meaning as set out
in the circular of the Company published on 20 May 2024.
New
ISIN: GG00BSFVPB94
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USD
Quote
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GBX
Quote
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SEDOL
|
BSFXP71
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BSFVPB9
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TIDM
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SHIP
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SHPP
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For
further information, please contact:
Tufton Investment Management Ltd (Investment
Manager)
Andrew Hampson
Nicolas Tirogalas
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+44 (0) 20 7518 6700
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Singer Capital Markets Advisory LLP
James Maxwell, Alex Bond, Jalini
Kalaravy (Corporate Finance)
Alan Geeves, James Waterlow, Sam
Greatrex (Sales)
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+44 (0) 20 7496 3000
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Hudnall Capital LLP
Andrew Cade
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+44 (0) 20 7520 9085
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LEI: 213800L1N2V3FVNOSY44
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About the Company
Tufton Oceanic Assets Limited
invests in a diversified portfolio of secondhand commercial
sea-going vessels with the objective of delivering strong cash flow
and capital gains to investors. The Company's investment manager is
Tufton Investment Management Ltd. The Company has raised a total of
approximately $316.5m (gross) through its Initial Public Offering
on the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange on 20
December 2017 and subsequent capital raises.