Completion of Tender Offer

NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO, THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA OR JAPAN

BH Macro Limited (the "Company")

(an authorised closed-ended collective investment scheme established as a company with limited liability under the laws of Guernsey with registration number 46235)

27 June 2016

Completion of Tender Offer

The Company announces that the acquisition by the Company of 7,812,223 Sterling shares, 861,331 Euro shares and 3,805,094 US Dollar shares pursuant to the tender offer launched by the Company on 27 April 2016 (the “Tender Offer”) has now been executed with all being repurchased by the Company and cancelled. 

Payment to shareholders of the Tender Offer consideration is expected to be made by 8 July 2016 as set out in the Company’s circular to shareholders dated 27 April 2016. 

Following each of the above transactions, the total number of shares in issue in each share class of the Company are as follows:

Shares in issue Shares in treasury
Sterling shares 23,212,960 2,134,286
Euro shares 2,510,594 244,719
US Dollar shares 11,231,885 1,029,052

The number of votes each share in the Company is entitled to on a poll at any general meeting of the Company was published by the Company on 9 March 2007 and will not change as a result of the conversions.  These are:

Euro share                    1

US Dollar share                        0.7606

Sterling share                1.4710

From today, the total number of voting rights in the Company (rounded down to the whole number) is 45,199,830

Enquiries

Brevan Howard:

Dan Riggs

020 7022 6236

J.P. Morgan Cazenove:

William Simmonds

020 7742 4000

Northern Trust:

Sharon A Williams

01481 745436

Important notices

J.P. Morgan Securities plc, which conducts its UK investment banking activities as J.P. Morgan Cazenove ("J.P. Morgan Cazenove"), which is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom, is acting exclusively for the Company and no-one else in connection with the Tender Offer and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to customers of J.P. Morgan Cazenove or for providing advice in relation to the Tender Offer or any matter referred to herein.

This announcement does not constitute an offer or solicitation to acquire or sell any securities in the Company. Any acceptance or other response to the Tender Offer should be made on the basis of the information contained in the Circular. The Tender Offer will not be extended into any jurisdiction where to do so may be unlawful or which may otherwise subject the Company or any other person to any unduly onerous obligation. 

This announcement is not for distribution in or into the United States, Canada, Australia or Japan or any other jurisdiction in which its distribution may be unlawful. This announcement is not an offer of securities for sale in the United States or elsewhere. The securities of the Company have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and may not be offered or sold in the United States unless registered under the Securities Act or pursuant to an exemption from such registration. The Company has not been and will not be registered under the US Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and investors are not entitled to the benefits of that Act. There has not been and there will be no public offering of the Company’s securities in the United States.

This announcement includes statements that are, or may be deemed to be, ‘‘forward-looking statements’’. These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the terms ‘‘believes’’, ‘‘estimates’’, ‘‘anticipates’’, ‘‘expects’’, ‘‘intends’’, ‘‘may’’, ‘‘will’’ or ‘‘should’’ or, in each case their negative or other variations or comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements include matters that are not historical facts. They appear in a number of places throughout this announcement and include statements regarding the intentions, beliefs or current expectations of the Company. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. The investment performance, financial condition and prospects of the Company may change. Except as required by law or applicable regulation, the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, even though the situation of the Company may change in the future. All of the information presented in this announcement, and particularly the forward-looking statements, is qualified by these cautionary statements.

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