Shares issued to existing shareholders in directed placement
(Thomson Reuters ONE) - NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY,IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, OR JAPAN. Shares issued to existing shareholders in directed placementBreda, Netherlands, 8 November 2009. Reference is made to theannouncement by Dockwise Ltd. on 19 October 2009 regarding an equityraising of between USD 220 million and USD 250 million through adirected placement of up to 172,310,113 new shares and a subsequentoffering of up to 86,328,233 new shares.In total 37,668,120 new shares subscribed for in the directedplacement by the existing shareholders Franklin Mutual, ODIN,Invesco, GMO, Skagen Funds and Holberg have now been issued andregistered with both Dockwise Ltd.'s shareholder register on Bermudaand in the Norwegian Central Securities Depository (VPS). DockwiseLtd. confirms that these shares are validly and legally issued, fullypaid up and properly registered with the relevant register orequivalent body. Following this share issue, the total number ofshares issued by Dockwise Ltd. is 267,423,558. An additional 64,800shares are expected to be issued to existing shareholders in theDirected Placement on Monday 9th of November 2009.Further information:Fons van Lith +31 76 5484116/+31 651 314 952Fons.van.lith(at)dockwise.comAbout Dockwise Ltd / Dockwise GroupDockwise Ltd., a Bermuda incorporated, has a workforce of more than1200 people both offshore and onshore. The company is the leadingmarine contractor providing total transport services to the offshore,onshore and yachting industries as well as installation services ofextremely heavy offshore platforms. The Group is headquartered inBreda, The Netherlands. The Group's main commercial offices arelocated in The Netherlands, the United States, China, Korea,Australia, Brasil, Moscow, Singapore and Nigeria. The Dockwise YachtTransport business unit is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale and hasan office in Italy. The Dockwise Shipping network is supported byagents in Japan, Singapore, Spain, Norway, Argentina and Italy.To support all of its services to customers, the group also has threeadditional engineering centers in Houston, Breda and Shenzhen,manufactures specific motion reduction equipment such as LMU (LegMating Units) and DMU (Deck Mating Units) and owns a fleet of 20purpose built semi-submersible vessels.Dockwise shares are listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under tickerDOCK.For further information: www.dockwise.comThis information is not an offer of securities for sale in or intothe United States, Australia, Canada or Japan. The securities havenot been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of1933, as amended, ("US Securities Act") and may not be offered orsold in the United States unless registered under the US SecuritiesAct or sold in a transaction exempt from registration. There will beno public offer of the securities in the United States.This announcement is being distributed in the UK only to, and isdirected only at persons who are (i) investment professionals asdefined in Article 19 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000(Financial Promotion) Order 2005 ("the Promotion Order") who arepersons having professional experience in matters relating toinvestments, (ii) high net worth companies, unincorporatedassociations and others falling within Article 49 of the PromotionOrder or (iii) persons to whom this announcement may otherwiselawfully be distributed without being accompanied by any furtherstatements and/or warnings as may be required by the Promotion Order(all such persons together being referred to as "relevant persons")and accordingly is exempt from the general restriction oncommunications in section 21 of the Financial Services and MarketsAct 2000 and, as a result of such exemptions, has not been approvedby an authorised person as required by such section. Any person who(i) does not have professional experience in matters relating toinvestments; (ii) is not a relevant person; or (iii) has any doubtabout as to whether they are an investment professional, a high networth company or unincorporated association, or other person to whomthis announcement may be lawfully distributed without it beingaccompanied by any further statements or warnings and/or theinvestment to which this announcement relates must not rely on or actupon the contents of this announcement unless, with respect to (iii)only, they take professional advice that confirms that they fallwithin one of those categories. Dockwise Ltd. has only communicatedor caused to be communicated invitations or inducements to engage ininvestment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of theFinancial Services and Markets Act 2000) in connection with the issueor sale of the shares in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of theFinancial Services and Markets Act 2000 does not apply. Anyinvestment or investment activity to which this announcement relatesis available in the United Kingdom only to relevant persons and willbe engaged in only with such persons.This announcement was originally distributed by Hugin. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
Datum: 08.11.2009 - 22:00 Uhr
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