WANDISCO ANNOUNCES ?19 MILLION EQUITY PLACING

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WANdisco Plc

26 September 2013

 



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26 September 2013

WANdisco plc

("WANdisco" or the "Company")

WANDISCO ANNOUNCES SUCCESSFUL £19 MILLION EQUITY PLACING

Sheffield, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development is pleased to announce that, further to the announcement issued earlier today, a total of 2 million new ordinary shares ("Ordinary Shares") in the Company (the "Placing Shares") have been successfully placed by Panmure Gordon & Co ("Panmure Gordon") and the Company with institutional investors (the "Equity Placing").

The Placing Price has been set at 950 pence per share (the "Placing Price").  The Placing Price is equivalent to a 7.8 per-cent discount to the closing mid-market price of an Ordinary Share on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange plc ("AIM") on 25 September 2013. 

Accordingly, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, the Equity Placing will raise gross proceeds of £19 million.

The Placing Shares represent approximately 9.3 per-cent of WANdisco's issued share capital prior to the Equity Placing.

David Richards, President and CEO of WANdisco plc said:

"I am hugely encouraged by the significant level of support we have received from our existing shareholders, and from those new institutions which have today chosen to participate in our growth story.  The funds raised today permit us to continue with even greater conviction and at a faster speed along our strategic path.  We will work from here to capitalize on the multiple opportunities for growth open to us, building further upon the clear lead we have in ALM and the exciting first-mover advantage we have in the rapidly evolving Big Data space." 

The Company has applied for admission of the Placing Shares to trading on AIM ("Admission").  It is expected that Admission will take place on or around 1 October 2013.  Following Admission, there will be 23,486,642 Ordinary Shares in issue.

The Placing Shares will, when issued, be credited as fully paid and will rank in full for all dividends and other distributions declared, made or paid in respect of the Ordinary Shares then in issue and will otherwise rank upon Admission pari passu in all respects with the existing Ordinary Shares of the Company.

Panmure Gordon acted as Bookrunner in connection with the Placing.

For further information please contact:

WANdisco plc	via FTI Consulting
FTI Consulting	[phone]
Matt Dixon / Sophie McMillan / Jon Snowball / Roger Newby
Panmure Gordon & Co	[phone]
Fred Walsh / Grishma Patel / Ben Roberts (Investment Banking)
Adam Pollock / Charles Leigh-Pemberton (Corporate Broking)

About WANdisco plc

WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, high-availabilitysoftware solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and availability. WANdisco's products are differentiated by the company's patented, active/active data replication technology, serving crucial high availability (HA) requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Fortune Global 1000 companies including AT&T, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

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Panmure Gordon, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA"), is acting for the Company in connection with the Placing and no one else and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to clients of Panmure Gordon or for providing advice in relation to the Placing.

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