Redemption of debentures

London & Assoc Properties PLC 7 November 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7th November 2001 LONDON & ASSOCIATED PROPERTIES PLC: REDEMPTION OF DEBENTURE STOCK AND CANCELLATION OF RIGHTS TO CONVERT TO 4.64m ORDINARY SHARES London & Associated Properties PLC ('LAP'), the specialist retail property investor, today announces the redemption of its £580,000 10.5% Convertible and its £420,000 10.5% Non-Convertible debenture stocks 2010. The convertible element of the stock had rights to convert into 4,640,000 ordinary shares at 12.5p per share. These shares formed the vast majority of the difference between the net asset value per share and the fully diluted net asset value per share. The aggregate cost of this transaction is £1.71m, which will be funded from some of the proceeds of recent investment sales. This transaction improves the fully diluted Net Asset Value (based on 31st December 2000 figures) by 1.91p to 62.42p per share and also reduces the FRS 13 adjustment by 0.38p per share after tax to 4.90p per share. Robert Corry, Finance Director, said: 'This is a good deal for the company. It is cost neutral and removes the large number of shares that would be issued on conversion of the loan stock. It improves Net Asset Value per share and it reduces the average cost of debt for the company to 7.2% from 7.33%.' Ends. Contact: London & Associated Properties PLC Tel: 020 7415 5000 Robert Corry, Finance Director John Heller, Chief Executive Baron Phillips Associates Tel: 020 7397 8932 Baron Phillips
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