Further Re-Organisation

Equest Investments Balkans Ltd 25 April 2008 COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT For Immediate Release 25th April 2008 Equest Investments Balkans Limited (the 'EIB' of the' Company') Re: Further Reorganisation of the Company The Board of EIB announces that, at the General Meeting held earlier today in connection with the recommended proposals for the reorganisation of the management structure of the Company, amendments to the articles of association and disapplication of pre-emption rights (as described in the Circular to shareholders dated 28 March 2008), the following resolutions were all duly passed: Resolution 1: to (i) approve the Proposals, (ii) grant authority to the Board to allot and issue the Consideration Shares, (iii) grant authority to the Board to allot and issue any Ordinary Shares upon exercise of the Warrants, (iv) grant authority to the Board to allot and issue any Ordinary Shares under the LTIP and (v) agree that ECL shall be deemed in respect of any issues of new Ordinary Shares to hold its then shareholding in the Company plus the Consideration Shares and the Ordinary Shares to be issued upon exercise of the Warrants; Resolution 2: to approve the removal of restrictions on the Company's investing strategy; Resolution 3: to approve the amendments to the Articles and disapplication of pre-emption rights over 1,826,589 Ordinary Shares (being 10% of the total number of currently issued Ordinary Shares together with the Consideration Shares); and Resolution 4: to approve the proposed unconditional changes to the Articles. Upon implementation of the Proposals (which would take effect only upon delisting of the Company's Ordinary Shares from the Irish Stock Exchange (the ' ISE')), the Company would no longer have an investment manager within the meaning of the ISE rules regulating Investment Funds. Accordingly, implementation of the Proposals remains conditional on the delisting of the Ordinary Shares from the ISE. It is currently expected that the delisting of the Company's Ordinary Shares from the ISE will take place during July 2008. The Ordinary Shares will continue to be admitted to trading on AIM. The changes to the Articles approved as part of Resolution 4 have become effective. The definitions used in this announcement are the same as the ones used in the Circular. For further information: Equest Partners Limited Petri Karjalainen +44 20 7240 7600 Naomi Kora Financial Dynamics Ed Gascoigne-Pees +44 20 7269 7132 David Cranmer Collins Stewart Europe Limited Hugh Field +44 20 7523 8350 Collins Stewart Europe Limited ('Collins Stewart') which is regulated and authorised by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the London Stock Exchange, is acting exclusively for the Company and no one else in connection with the Proposals and Associated Changes. Collins Stewart will not regard any other person as its customer nor be responsible to any other person for providing the protections afforded to customers of Collins Stewart nor for providing advice in relation to the transactions and arrangements detailed in this document. This announcement has been issued through the Companies Announcement Service of The Irish Stock Exchange This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange D ISEUVRWRWKRSUAR
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