Further re Issue of Equity

Prodesse Investment Limited 27 March 2007 Not for release, publication or distribution in, or into, the United States, Australia, Canada or Japan 27 March 2007 Prodesse Investment Limited RESULT OF PLACING OF NEW ORDINARY SHARES PLACING PRICE SET AT 440 PENCE PER NEW ORDINARY SHARE Prodesse Investment Limited (the 'Company') announces that, further to the announcement on 27 March 2007 (the 'Announcement'), a total of 2.54 million new ordinary shares of U.S.$0.01 each in the Company (the 'Placing Shares') have been placed by Merrill Lynch International ('Merrill Lynch') at a price of 440 pence per Placing Share, raising gross proceeds of approximately £11.18 million (the 'Placing'). Application will be made for, and the Placing is conditional upon, inter alia, admission of the Placing Shares to listing on the Official List maintained by the UK Listing Authority and upon admission to trading by London Stock Exchange plc on its main market for listed securities (together, 'Admission'). It is expected that Admission will become effective and that dealings will commence in the Placing Shares at 8:00am on 30 March 2007. Application will also be made for the Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on the Channel Islands Stock Exchange, LBG. Subject to the conditions being satisfied, the Placing Shares will be issued credited as fully paid and will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing issued ordinary shares of U.S.$0.01 per share in the capital of the Company. Enquiries: Prodesse Investment Limited: John Hallam Chairman +44 (0)1481 250879 Fixed Income Discount Advisory Company Ronald Kazel Director +1 212 696 0100 Merrill Lynch International Rupert Hume Kendall +44 (0)20 7996 1000 Andrew Tusa +44 (0)20 7996 1000 Mark Gwynne +44 (0)20 7995 3700 Defined terms used in this announcement have, unless the context otherwise requires, the same meaning given to them in the Announcement. This announcement has been issued by and is the sole responsibility of Prodesse. Merrill Lynch is acting for the Company and no-one else in relation to the Placing and will not be responsible to any person other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to clients of Merrill Lynch or for providing advice in relation to the Placing or in relation to the contents of this announcement or any other transaction, arrangement or matter referred to herein. This announcement is for information purposes only and does not constitute an offer to issue or sell, or the solicitation of an offer to acquire or buy, any securities to any person in any jurisdiction. In particular, this announcement does not constitute an offer to issue or sell, or the solicitation of an offer to acquire, buy or subscribe for, any securities in the United States, Canada, Australia or Japan. The Placing Shares have not been, nor will they be, registered under the Securities Act or with any securities regulatory authority of any State or other jurisdiction of the United States, and accordingly may not be offered, sold or transferred within the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, registration under the Securities Act. No public offering of the Placing shares will be made in the United States. The Placing Shares are being offered and sold only outside the United States to persons who are not U.S. persons as defined in and in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act. The Company has not been and will not be registered under the Investment Company Act and investors will not be entitled to the benefits of such registration. Any indication in this announcement of the price at which Ordinary Shares have been bought or sold in the past cannot be relied upon as a guide to future performance. No statement in this announcement is intended to be a profit forecast or dividend forecast and no statement in this announcement should be interpreted to mean that earnings per share of the Company for the current or future financial years would necessarily match or exceed the historical published earnings per share of the Company. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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