First Sentinel Plc - Exercise of Shareholder Warrants
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London, October 25
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25 October 2019
First Sentinel Plc
("First Sentinel" or the "Company")
Exercise of Shareholder Warrants
Issue of Equity
First Sentinel Plc ("First Sentinel" or the "Company") (NEX: FSEN) is pleased to announce that today it issued 4,000,000 shares pursuant to the exercise of 2,000,000 shareholder warrants at 10p per share each by Mr Alexander Easdale and Mr James Easdale granted at the time of the Company's IPO in April 2017 (the "Shares") to raise £400,000 for investment and working capital purposes.
Following the issue of the Shares, the following holdings fall to be disclosed under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules:
Name of Shareholder | Holdings | Percentage of Share Capital |
Mr Alexander Easdale | 4,000,000 | 18.74% |
Mr James Easdale | 4,000,000 | 18.74% |
Mr Alexander Gray | 400,000 | 1.87% |
*On Demand Lawyers SA (Mr Colin Maltby) | 500,000 | 2.34% |
*Mr Brian Stockbridge | 514,947 | 2.41% |
*Mrs Aimee Freeding | 514,947 | 2.41% |
*Mr Shane Perry | 707,937 | 3.32% |
* Directors of the Company
Application is being made for the Shares to be admitted to trading on NEX and it is expected that Admission will become effective and dealing in the Shares will commence on or around 1 November 2019. The Shares will rank pari passu with existing Ordinary Shares.
Following the issue of the Shares, the Company will have 21,334,866 Ordinary Shares in issue, each share carrying the right to one vote. The Shares will rank pari passu with existing ordinary shares.
The above figure of 21,334,866 should be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
About First Sentinel
First Sentinel is an alternative investment company, registered with the FCA as a small authorised UK AIFM, which provides growth capital for public and private company investments. First Sentinel invests in a range of debt and equity instruments in target portfolio companies.
The Company's website is www.first-sentinel.com
For further corporate information, please contact:
Mr. Brian Stockbridge
CEO
First Sentinel Plc
Tel: + 44 (0) 7876 888 011
NEX Corporate Advisor
Beaumont Cornish Limited
James Biddle / Roland Cornish
Tel: +44(0)20 7628 3396
