Result of EGM and Placing Update

THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS RESTRICTED AND IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN, INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN, THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND, THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA OR ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE SAME WOULD BE UNLAWFUL CRYSTAL AMBER FUND LIMITED 23 January 2015 Result of EGM and Placing Update The Board of Crystal Amber Fund Limited ("Crystal Amber" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, the resolution was duly passed. Further to the announcements issued on 18 December 2014, the Company announces that the NAV per share at the close of business on 19 January 2015 ("the Calculation Date") was 153.34p. Accordingly, the Placing Price, which is equivalent to a 1.41 per cent. premium to the NAV on the Calculation Date, is 155.5p. Crystal Amber has received firm commitments from certain shareholders and new investors to subscribe for new Ordinary Shares for a gross consideration of £ 32,297,500 under the Placing. Therefore, Crystal Amber has allotted 20,770,097 Placing Shares, subject to admission to trading on AIM, representing an enlargement of approximately 28 per cent. of the Company's current issued share capital. Application has been made for the 20,770,097 Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is expected that Admission will take place, and dealings in such Placing Shares will commence, on AIM on 27 January 2015. Following the issue of the 20,770,097 Placing Shares, the Company will have 95,961,800 Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding 3,057,962 Ordinary Shares held in Treasury). Enquiries Crystal Amber Fund Limited William Collins Tel: 01481 716 000 Crystal Amber Advisers (UK) LLP - Investment Adviser Richard Bernstein Tel: 020 7478 9080 Sanlam Securities UK Limited - Nominated Adviser David Worlidge/Simon Clements Tel: 020 7628 2200 Numis Securities Limited - Broker Nathan Brown/Hugh Jonathan Tel: 020 7260 1426 Important Notice Capitalised terms used but not defined in this announcement have the same meanings as set out in the placing announcement of the Company released on 18 December 2014. Numis Securities Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority, is acting exclusively as broker to Crystal Amber Fund Limited and for no one else in connection with the Placing and will not be responsible to anyone other than Crystal Amber Fund Limited for providing the protections afforded to clients of Numis Securities Limited or for providing advice in relation to the Placing or any matter referred to in this Announcement. Sanlam Securities UK Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority, is acting as nominated adviser to Crystal Amber Fund Limited and is acting for no-one else in connection with the Placing and will not be responsible to anyone other than Crystal Amber Fund Limited for providing the protections afforded to clients of Sanlam Securities UK Limited nor for providing advice in relation to the Placing or any matter referred to in this Announcement.
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