Progress since admission

T2 Income Fund Limited 20 December 2005 T2 Income Fund - progress since admission December 20, 2005. T2 Income Fund Limited ('T2' or the 'Company'), a newly established closed-end Guernsey exempt investment company, announced today an update on progress since its admission to trading on AIM on August 5, 2005. T2 has completed its initial transaction, a £1.1 million investment in secured second-lien term notes issued by a Canadian-based technology firm in the packaged software publishing industry, bearing interest at 8% over LIBOR. The transaction was finalized on December 15, 2005. T2 has been generally pleased with the quality and number of investment opportunities in profitable and growing technology companies available to it since its initial public offering. It has however, for a variety of reasons, chosen not to pursue many of those potential transactions thus far, including three out of the five prospective portfolio opportunities referred to in the AIM admission document. The reasons include transaction-specific due-diligence issues, and the pricing and equity terms available which have made it not possible to achieve terms that T2 considers to be an appropriate risk/reward relationship in its investments. The Board believes that a limiting factor in progressing certain of those transactions has been the deliberative approach towards debt financing on the part of some potential portfolio companies, which has led to slower-than-expected progress in the negotiation and completion of certain transactions. T2 has seen a range of technology companies (including companies in the enterprise software, IT services and Internet sectors) for which debt financing represents an attractive and efficient alternative to traditional equity capital investment, and the Company remains focused on opportunities to make investments consistent with its mandate. Since the time of its admission to trading on AIM in August 2005, the Company has reviewed 19 transactions involving the debt securities of technology companies. The Company is currently working on 7 transactions, ranging in size from approximately £1.75 million to approximately £7.5 million, although the Company continues to note that there can be no guarantee that it will make these or similar investments. Of the five investment opportunities described in the admission document, one of those investments is reflected in the recently finalized transaction disclosed above; the interest rate remained the same as anticipated although the principal amount of the investment was smaller than planned. One of the other original five deals is still being actively pursued, while the other three deals have been eliminated from consideration as a result of matters arising in due diligence. In view of the above, and reflecting the slower pace of investment than that envisaged in the AIM admission document, it is unlikely at this time that the Company will achieve the original projected yield of 7.2% for the four quarters ending June 2006. A further update will be given, together with a restatement of the projected yield for this period if appropriate, when progress has been made on the prospective transactions referred to above. In reference to the employee departures announced in September 2005, the Company's investment manager believes that it continues to be adequately staffed and notes that it has recently hired a senior managing director with 27 years of relevant experience. Further, another experienced investment professional has accepted an offer to join the investment adviser as a vice president in January 2006. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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