17th Apr 2025 11:45
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THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR ISSUE OR THE SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY, SUBSCRIBE FOR OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRE ANY NEW SHARES OF GELION PLC.
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17 April 2025
Gelion plc ("Gelion" or the "Company")
Result of Placing and Subscription
and
Posting of Circular and Notice of General Meeting
Gelion plc (AIM: GELN), the global energy storage innovator, is pleased to announce that, further to its announcement published earlier today in respect of the Fundraising and due to additional demand in the accelerated bookbuild process, which has now closed, the Company has increased the size of the Placing, in line with its Terms and Conditions. Accordingly, the Company has raised an aggregate of approximately £2.0 million (before expenses) by way of the issue of 22,551,753 New Shares, pursuant to the Placing and Subscription.
The Placing raised gross proceeds of £0.88 million through the issue of 9,773,982 Placing Shares and the Subscription raised gross proceeds of £1.15 million through the issue of 12,777,771 Subscription Shares.
As part of the Fundraising, the Company also announced details of a Retail Offer to be made to existing Shareholders in the UK to raise up to an additional maximum of £191,389.86 through the issue of up to 2,126,554 Retail Offer Shares, at the Issue Price. The Retail Offer is being conducted via the Bookbuild Platform. The Retail Offer is expected to close at 5.00 p.m. (BST) on 22 April 2025, and the results of the Retail Offer will be announced separately thereafter.
Posting of Circular and Notice of General Meeting
The Placing, Subscription and Retail Offer are each conditional, inter alia, upon Shareholders approving the Resolutions at the General Meeting which is expected to be held on 6 May 2025. The Circular, which contains the Notice of General Meeting in respect of the Fundraising, is expected to be posted to Shareholders today and will also be available on the Company's website at www.gelion.com.
Directors' Participation
Details of the Directors' participation in the Fundraising is set out as follows:
Director | Number of Existing Ordinary Shares | Number of New Shares subscribed for | Total number of Ordinary Shares held on Admission | Percentage of Enlarged Share Capital on Admission* |
Dr Steve Mahon | 1,992,782 | 1,111,111 | 3,103,893 | 1.79 |
Dr Graham Cooley | 666,666 | 1,666,666 | 2,333,332 | 1.35 |
John Wood | 506,333 | 277,777 | 784,110 | 0.45 |
Michael Davie | 1,199,252 | 277,777 | 1,477,029 | 0.85 |
Prof. Thomas Maschmeyer | 17,651,781 | 222,222 | 17,874,003 | 10.32 |
*Assuming the Retail Offer is subscribed in full.
Related Party Transaction
The above Directors' participation in the Fundraising constitutes a related party transaction pursuant to Rule 13 of the AIM Rules by virtue of their status as Directors of the Company. The independent directors of the Company, Amit Gupta and Joycelyn Morton, having consulted with the Company's Nominated Adviser, Strand, consider the terms of the Directors' participation in the Fundraising to be fair and reasonable insofar as the Shareholders are concerned.
Admission
Application will be made for the New Shares to be issued pursuant to the Fundraising to be admitted to trading on AIM, which is expected to take place at 8.00 a.m. on or around 8 May 2025 (or such later date as the Company, Oberon, Allenby and Strand Hanson may agree, but in any event not later than 8.00 a.m. on 22 May 2025).
CONTACTS
Gelion plc John Wood, CEOAmit Gupta, CFO Prof. Thomas Maschmeyer (Founder and Director) | via Alma |
Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated and Financial Adviser)Christopher Raggett / Rob Patrick | +44 (0) 20 7409 3494 |
Oberon Capital (Joint Broker) Nick Lovering / Mike Seabrook / Adam Pollock
| +44 (0) 20 3179 5300 |
Allenby Capital Limited (Joint Broker) Jos Pinnington / Guy McDougall (Sales and Corporate Broking) Alex Brearley / Ashur Joseph (Corporate Finance) | +44 (0) 20 3328 5656 |
Alma Strategic Communications (Financial PR)Justine James / Hannah Campbell / Will Ellis Hancock | +44 (0) 20 3405 0205 [email protected] |
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