28th Nov 2005 07:01
Amlin PLC28 November 2005 PRESS RELEASETo be released 7am28 November 2005 Amlin plc Result of Rights Issue Amlin plc (the "Company") announces that its Rights Issue closed at 11am onFriday 25 November 2005 and is pleased to announce that it has received validacceptances in respect of 123,350,812 New Ordinary Shares, representingapproximately 96.51 per cent of the total number of 127,805,073 New OrdinaryShares offered pursuant to the 7 for 22 fully underwritten Rights Issueannounced by the Company on 1 November 2005. In accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement dated 1 November 2005between the Company and Hoare Govett, Hoare Govett will seek to procuresubscribers for the remaining 4,454,261 New Ordinary Shares for which validacceptances were not received. Definitions used in the Prospectus dated 2 November 2005 shall have the samemeanings when used in this announcement, unless the context requires otherwise. 28 November 2005 -Ends- Enquiries: Charles Pender, Amlin plc 020 7746 1000David Haggie, Haggie Financial 020 7417 8989Peter Rigby, Haggie Financial 020 7417 8989 Hoare Govett Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom bythe Financial Services Authority, is acting as sponsor, underwriter, broker andjoint financial adviser to Amlin in connection with the Rights Issue and thelisting of the New Ordinary Shares on the Official List and their admission totrading on the London Stock Exchange's market for listed securities and will notbe responsible to anyone other than Amlin for providing the protections affordedto clients of Hoare Govett Limited or for providing advice in relation to theRights Issue, proposed listing or admission to trading or the contents of thisannouncement or any other matters referred to in this announcement. Lexicon Partners Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the UnitedKingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is acting as joint financialadviser to Amlin in connection with the Rights Issue and the listing of the NewOrdinary Shares on the Official List and their admission to trading on theLondon Stock Exchange's market for listed securities and will not be responsibleto anyone other than Amlin for providing the protections afforded to customersof Lexicon Partners Limited or for providing advice in relation to the RightsIssue, proposed listing or admission to trading or contents of this announcementor any other matters referred to in this announcement. The release, publication or distribution of this announcement in certainjurisdictions may be restricted by law and therefore persons in suchjurisdictions into which this announcement is released, published or distributedshould inform themselves about and observe such restrictions. No offer, invitation or inducement to acquire shares or other securities inAmlin is being made by or in connection with this announcement. Any offer,invitation or inducement to acquire shares in Amlin will be made solely by meansof the prospectus published on 2 November 2005, and any decision to keep, buy orsell shares in Amlin should be made solely on the basis of the informationcontained in such document. This announcement is not for distribution or transmission, directly orindirectly, in or into the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealandor the Republic of South Africa and does not constitute, or form part of, anoffer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to subscribe for or buy anysecurities ("Securities"), nor the solicitation of any vote or approval in anyjurisdiction, nor shall there be any sale, issue or transfer of the Securitiesreferred to in this announcement in any jurisdiction in contravention ofapplicable law. The Securities have not been and will not be registered under the US SecuritiesAct of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") and may not be offered or sold inthe United States unless registered under the Securities Act or an exemptionfrom such registration is available. No public offering of Securities of Amlinis being made in the United States. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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