Publication of Prospectus

RNS Number : 9844I

Acal PLC

05 June 2014

 



THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS RESTRICTED AND NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA OR JAPAN OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION WOULD BE UNLAWFUL.

Acal plc

("Acal" or the "Company")

Publication of Prospectus and Notice of General Meeting

5 June 2014

Further to the announcement by the Company earlier today relating to the proposed Rights Issue to raise approximately GBP55 million and the proposed acquisition of Trafo Holding AS which trades as Noratel, a copy of the combined circular and prospectus dated 5 June 2014 (the "Prospectus") has been approved by the UK Listing Authority and submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

A copy of the Prospectus when published will be available free of charge and during normal business hours from the registered office of the Company and will shortly be available on the Company's website at www.acalplc.co.uk.

For further information, please contact:

Acal plc                                               Nick Jefferies- Group Chief Executive Simon Gibbins- Group Finance Director	01483 544500
Sponsor, sole bookrunner and broker Oriel Securities David Arch Ashton Clanfield Stewart Wallace	0207 710 7600
Instinctif Partners Mark Garraway Helen Tarbet	0207 457 2020

Important Notices

The defined terms set out in Part XVIII of the Prospectus apply in this announcement.

This announcement is not a prospectus but an advertisement and investors should not acquire any Nil Paid Rights, Fully Paid Rights or Rights Issue Shares except on the basis of the information contained in the Prospectus.

A copy of the Prospectus is available from the registered office of the Company and on the Company's website at www.acalplc.co.uk provided that the Prospectus will not, subject to certain exceptions, be available (whether through the website or otherwise) to Shareholders in the United States or any of the other Excluded Territories.

Neither the content of the Company's website nor any website accessible by hyperlinks on the Company's website is incorporated in, or forms part of, this announcement. The Prospectus gives further details of the Rights Issue Shares, the Nil Paid Rights and the Fully Paid Rights being offered pursuant to the Rights Issue.

This announcement is for information purposes only and is not intended to and does not constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to purchase or subscribe for, or any solicitation to purchase or subscribe for, Nil Paid Rights, Fully Paid Rights or Rights Issue Shares or to take up any entitlements to Nil Paid Rights in any jurisdiction in which such an offer or solicitation is unlawful. The information contained in this announcement is not for release, publication or distribution to persons in the United States or any of the other Excluded Territories and should not be distributed, forwarded to or transmitted in or into any jurisdiction where to do so might constitute a violation of local securities laws or regulations.

The Provisional Allotment Letters, the Nil Paid Rights, the Fully Paid Rights and the Rights Issue Shares have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or under any securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States, and may not be offered, sold, taken up, exercised, resold, renounced, or otherwise transferred, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and in compliance with any applicable securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States.

The distribution of this announcement into jurisdictions other than the United Kingdom may be restricted by law, and, therefore, persons into whose possession this announcement comes should inform themselves about and observe any such restrictions.

 

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