Exercise of Options and Warrants

RNS Number : 3517C

AFC Energy Plc

15 April 2013

 



15 April 2013

AFC Energy PLC

("AFC Energy" or the "Company")

Exercise of Options and Warrants

Director Shareholding

Exercise of Options and Warrants

AFC Energy (AIM: AFC) announces that application has been made for 600,000 new ordinary shares of 0.1 pence to be admitted to trading on AIM pursuant to the exercise of options under the Company's EMI Share Option Scheme (the "Option Exercise"). The options have an exercise price of 3.13 pence per share (300,000 shares) and 17.5 pence per share (300,000 shares).

An application has also been made for a further 1,500,000 new ordinary shares of 0.1 pence to be admitted to trading on AIM pursuant to the exercise of a Warrant Instrument dated 17^th April 2009 by Ian Balchin, Deputy Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer (the "Warrant Exercise"). The warrants have an exercise price of 3.13 pence per share.

The 2,100,000 new ordinary shares issued pursuant to the Option Exercise and the Warrant Exercise will rank pari passu with the Company's existing ordinary shares and admission to trading on AIM is expected to take place on 19^th April 2013 ("Admission").

The total enlarged issued share capital of the Company following Admission will be 220,448.544 ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each. This figure may be used by shareholders 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 Disclosure and Transparency Rules of the UK Financial Services Authority.

Director Shareholding

Following Admission, Ian Balchin will have a total beneficial interest in 1,550,000 ordinary shares in AFC Energy, equivalent to 0.7 per cent. of the total enlarged share capital of the Company.

For further information, please contact:

AFC Energy plc Ian Williamson, Chief Executive Ian Balchin, Deputy Chairman David Marson, Finance Director & Company Secretary	[phone]
Luther Pendragon	[phone]
Neil Thapar Alexis Gore
Peat & Co. - Corporate Broker	[phone]
Charlie Peat
Allenby Capital Limited Jeremy Porter James Reeve	[phone]

About AFC Energy

Founded in 2006, AFC Energy plc is re-engineering proven alkaline fuel cell technology to reduce the cost of electricity. Alkaline fuel cells have been used on US and Russian manned space missions for decades to provide electrical power and drinking water. By using modern materials, design tools and manufacturing processes at scale, AFC Energy is developing fuel cells that will compete with conventional technologies such as turbines for electrical power generation. Today, AFC Energy is pursuing opportunities in several sectors where hydrogen is readily available including the chlorine, clean coal and waste-to-energy industries as well as applications for distributed/back-up power. For further information, please visit our website: www.afcenergy.com.

 

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