Admission to AIM and First Day of Dealings

RNS Number : 5204M

EnSilica PLC

24 May 2022

 

24 May 2022

EnSilica plc

("EnSilica," the "Company" or the "Group")

Admission to trading on AIM and First Day of Dealings

EnSilica, a leading designer and supplier of mixed signal ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), is pleased to announce the admission of its Ordinary Shares to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. Dealings commenced at 8.00am today, Tuesday 24 May 2022, under the ticker "ENSI".

EnSilica provides an end-to-end service for the design and supply of mixed signal ASICs, outsourcing certain elements such as the wafer fabrication of the manufacturing and packaging to third parties - otherwise known as a Fabless Semiconductor Model.

EnSilica has raised £6 million through a placing and subscription of 12,000,000 Ordinary Shares at a price of 50p per share (the "Placing Price") and has a market capitalisation of approximately £37.6 million at the Placing Price.

The Directors believe that the Group has reached a stage in its development where it will benefit from a quotation on AIM and that, as well as providing the Company with the net proceeds of the Fundraising, this will:

· enhance both transparency and international profile of EnSilica with existing and potential customers;

· allow the Company to access equity capital creating flexibility to fund growth and support potential M&A opportunities;

· enable EnSilica to attract, recruit and retain key employees who may be further incentivised through share option schemes; and

· create a platform for existing shareholders to participate in the future growth of the Company.

Allenby Capital is acting as Nominated Adviser and Sole Broker to the Company and the placing.

Ian Lankshear, Chief Executive Officer of EnSilica commented:

"Our admission to AIM represents a significant endorsement of our business which I believe creates an ideal platform from which to accelerate our growth ambitions.

"We have an outstanding team who have all helped established our market leading reputation and we are truly excited by the many opportunities our quoted status will bring."

For further information please visit www.ensilica.com or contact:

EnSilica plc Ian Lankshear, Chief Executive Officer Matthew Wethey, Chief Financial Officer	Via Vigo Consulting [phone]
Allenby Capital Limited, Nominated Adviser & Broker Jeremy Porter / Vivek Bhardwaj (Corporate Finance) Joscelin Pinnington/Tony Quirke (Sales & Corporate Broking)	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]
Vigo Consulting (Investor & Financial Public Relations) Jeremy Garcia / Tara Benniman ensilica @vigoconsulting.com	[phone]

Confirmation regarding share options over existing ordinary shares

As set out in the Company's Admission Document, the following significant shareholders (as defined in the AIM Rules for Companies) have agreed to provide the number of shares specified below to benefit employees of the Company through the grant of options at the Placing Price of 50p per share.

Name	Total no. of ordinary shares held	Total no. of ordinary shares held (%)	No. of ordinary shares provided for employee share options
Ian William Ernest Lankshear	16,040,358	21.32%	1,592,239
Richard Ashley Hamer*	7,144,990	9.50%	724,499
Marc Castells*	5,786,554	7.69%	588,655
Richard Neil Marley*	5,786,554	7.69%	588,655
Nicholas Henry Weiner	3,457,737	4.60%	345,774
Philip Andrew Faulkner	3,457,737	4.60%	345,774
David Andrew Wheeler	3,457,737	4.60%	345,774
Alan Chi Wai Wong	3,492,790	4.64%	345,774
Andrew Peter Maund	3,457,737	4.60%	345,774

*In addition to the above, and as also set out in the Company's Admission Document, Richard Hamer, Richard Marley and Marc Castells have each agreed to provide, respectively,1,524,000, 1,238,000 and 1,238,000 of their ordinary shares to the Company to be used to satisfy an option granted to Ian Lankshear, CEO, over 4,000,000 ordinary shares under the Company's 2022 LTIP.  These options are exercisable at 50p per share from 24 May 2024 until 1 December 2024.

 

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