Interim Management Statement

10th May 2012 Pantheon International Participations PLC Interim Management Statement (Unaudited) for the Quarter Ended 31st March 2012 Pantheon International Participations PLC ("PIP" or the "Company") presents its interim management statement for the period from 1st January 2012 to 31st March 2012. This constitutes the Company's second interim management statement in the financial year ending 30th June 2012, as required by the UK Listing Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rule 4.3. The Company published an unaudited Net Asset Value ("NAV") as at 31st March 2012 on 26th April 2012. This interim management statement summarises the information as at 31st March 2012 and any further developments up to 9th May 2012. Investment Objective PIP's primary investment objective is to maximise capital growth by investing in a diversified portfolio of private equity funds and, occasionally, directly in private companies. Valuations PIP's valuation policy for private equity funds is based on the latest accounts produced by the managers of the funds in which PIP has holdings. In the case of the valuation as at 31st March 2012, the majority of valuations (accounting for circa 93% by value) are dated 31st December 2011. Private equity funds may contain a proportion of quoted shares from time to time, for example where the underlying company investments have been taken public but the holdings have not yet been sold. The quoted market holdings at the date of the latest fund accounts are reviewed and compared with the value of those holdings at the year end. If there has been a material movement in the value of these holdings, the valuation is adjusted to reflect this. Cash Flow During the quarter ended 31st March 2012, PIP received distributions from private equity assets of £29m and invested £14m through drawdowns on commitments to underlying private equity funds. Net cash inflow from the portfolio during the quarter was £15m. New Commitments and Share Buybacks During the quarter PIP made three new commitments to secondary interests in aggregate amounting to £17m, which overall, were approximately 70% funded. Undrawn commitments relating to these secondary interests amounted to £5m. The new secondary interests are focused predominantly on buyout funds based in the USA. Additionally, since the end of the quarter the Company has acquired an £8m secondary commitment (approximately 60% funded) to a USA-based buyout fund. For new investment commitments the Company will continue to emphasise investments in secondary transactions and will also occasionally participate in co-investments alongside leading private equity managers selected by Pantheon. The Board will consider further share buybacks as a means of enhancing NAV per share as an alternative to new investments whilst its shares continue to trade at such historically high discounts. In the quarter, PIP bought back for cancellation, a total of 230,000 ordinary shares at a price of 653p per share and 1,215,000 redeemable shares at an average price of 697p per share. These transactions were executed at an overall discount of approximately 39% to the 31st December 2011 NAV, and resulted in a total uplift to NAV per share of approximately 8.9p. After the quarter end on 3rd May 2012, the Company bought back for cancellation, a further 100,000 ordinary shares at a price of 777.5p per share. Since August 2011, the Company has deployed a total of £28m in implementing share buybacks, acquiring 5.5% of PIP's total shares outstanding prior to any share buybacks. Cash Balance and Remaining Facilities As at 31st March 2012, PIP had cash balances equivalent to a total of approximately £46m. In addition, the Company's multi-currency revolving credit facility agreement ("the Bank Loan Facility"), comprising an $82m US dollar facility and a €57m euro facility, was completely undrawn. The Bank Loan Facility expires in June 2015. Based on exchange rates at 31st March 2012, PIP's total available liquid financing capacity, comprising its cash and bank facility, stood at £145m. Undrawn Commitments Undrawn commitments to investments stood at £199m at 31st March 2012, calculated using exchange rates at that date. Drawdowns of undrawn commitments typically occur over a period of several years. Performance The Company's ordinary share price increased by 24.0% to 776.0p during the quarter to 31st March 2012, whilst the Company's redeemable share price increased by 18.6% to 765.0p. Between 31st March 2012 and the market close on 9th May 2012, the share price of the ordinary shares decreased to 752.0p and the share price of the redeemable shares remained unchanged at 765.0p. The NAV per share at 31st March 2012 of 1,140.1p represented an increase of approximately 0.5% on the NAV per share at 31st December 2011. Total Return Performance Since 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years Inception % % p.a. % p.a. % p.a. % p.a. NAV per share 8.3 6.1 5.3 6.9 11.3 Ordinary share price 7.0 55.3 -2.0 4.8 10.1 FTSE All-Share Total Return 1.4 18.8 1.8 5.2 7.7 MSCI World (sterling) Total 1.6 16.5 4.1 4.1 6.5 Return PIP was launched on 18th September 1987. £1,000 invested at inception, assuming reinvestment of dividends, capital repayments and cash flow from warrants, would have been worth approximately £10,509 at 31st March 2012. General Information 31/03/2012 31/12/2011 Change NAV per share 1,140.1p 1,134.0p 0.5% Ordinary share price 776.0p 625.8p 24.0% Redeemable share price 765.0p 645.0p 18.6% Net assets £814.2m £826.2m -1.5% Outstanding commitments £199.2m £211.3m -5.7% Other than as described above the Board is not aware of any events during the period from 31st March 2012 to the date of this statement which would have a material impact on the financial position of the Company. Tom Bartlam Chairman 10th May 2012 The views, information and data in this announcement should not be deemed as a financial promotion or recommendation. Shareholders are advised that this statement is unaudited. ENDS For more information please visit PIP's website at www.pipplc.com or contact: Andrew Lebus or Alexis Barling Pantheon 020 7484 6200 Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of this announcement.
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