Placing

Raven Capital Inc 13 January 2006 13 January 2006 Raven Capital Inc ('Raven' or the 'Company') Placing Raven was admitted to AIM on 15 December 2004 with the objective of building, principally through acquisitions and joint venture transactions, a group specialising in the hedge fund sector. The Board continues to believe the hedge fund sector represents a viable investment opportunity and the Directors have explored and undertaken due diligence on a number of potential opportunities, although none to date have been sufficiently attractive to merit being put before shareholders. As a consequence the Company has utilised a substantial proportion of the Company's cash resources and would therefore benefit from additional working capital. Accordingly the Company is proposing to raise £150,000 through a placing of 13,300,000 new ordinary shares at approximately 1.1 pence per share with EP (Singapore) Pte Limited ('EP')(the 'Placing'), which will represent approximately 29.99% of the enlarged share capital. EP is an investment company based in Singapore which approached the Board with a proposal to invest additional funds into the Company and to work with the Board to source a suitable acquisition. EP is controlled by Mr Stephan Ludwig, 40, a German National. The Company has agreed that EP may appoint a director to the board for so long as it holds 20 per cent. or more of the Company's share capital. EP has elected not to appoint a director at this stage but may do so in the future. The proceeds of the Placing will be applied to the continuation of the Company's investment strategy and to general working capital purposes. Mr Ludwig spent ten years with Credit Suisse First Boston in London and New York before joining Nomura International in London as Managing Director and co-head of a newly formed Asset Trading Group where he built a US$ 5 billion portfolio. Mr Ludwig subsequently joined Nomura Securities in Asia as a main board director and as Head of Capital Markets in Asia. Since leaving Nomura in 1998, Mr Ludwig has managed his personal portfolio of private venture capital investments and is a non-executive director of a number of these enterprises. The Directors believe that the Company will benefit from the experience of Stephan Ludwig. As this proposed issue of new shares is in excess of the authority currently in existence, the issue of the new ordinary shares will be subject to approval at an Extraordinary General Meeting ('EGM') to be held on 3 February 2006. It is proposed that, following approval at the EGM, the Admission date of the new shares will be 6 February 2006. Enquiries: John Bick 0870 389 6999 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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