Placing and Admission to Official List

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This announcement is an advertisement and not a prospectus. This announcement is not an offer for sale, or a solicitation of an offer to acquire, securities in any jurisdiction, including in or into the United States, Canada, Australia, or Japan. Investors should not subscribe for or purchase any transferable securities referred to in this announcement except on the basis of information in the prospectus (the "Prospectus") to be published by the Company in due course in connection with the admission of its ordinary shares to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority (the "UKLA") (by way of a standard listing under Chapter 14 of the listing rules published by the UKLA (the "Listing Rules")) and to trading on London Stock Exchange plc's (the "London Stock Exchange") main market for listed securities (together "Admission").

19 January 2015

VERTU CAPITAL LIMITED

Placing and Admission to Official List

Vertu Capital Ltd ("Vertu" or the "Company") announces the successful placing of 80,000,000 new ordinary shares of £0.01 each in the Company (the "Placing") with institutional and other investors and the admission of its entire share capital, being 100,000,000 ordinary shares of £0.01 each ("Ordinary Shares"), to the Official List of the UKLA by way of a standard listing under Chapter 14 of the UKLA's Listing Rules) and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities.

Vertu has raised gross proceeds of £800,000 under the Placing.

Vertu has been formed to undertake an acquisition of a target company or business in the financial services sector. The Company's efforts in identifying a prospective target company or business will be focused in the geographic region of Asia and Europe. However, the Company expects to draw on the extensive experience of the Company's Directors in sourcing and successfully executing such transactions.

Admission

It is expected that Admission will become effective and dealings in the Ordinary Shares on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities will commence at 8.00 a.m. today under the ticker symbol 'VCBC'.

Prospectus

Copies of the Prospectus published by the Company in connection with Admission will be published on the Company's website at http://www.vertucapital.co.uk/page/notice and hard copies will also be available at the offices of the Company's financial adviser, broker and placing agent, Optiva Securities Limited, 2 Mill Street, Mayfair, London W1S 2AT.. The Prospectus is also available at the FCA's Document Storage Mechanism at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

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