Preliminary results of Dockwise's subsequent offering
(Thomson Reuters ONE) - NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY,IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, OR JAPAN. Preliminary results of Dockwise's subsequent offeringBreda, the Netherlands, 24 November 2009. Reference is made to theannouncement by Dockwise Ltd. on 4 November 2009 regarding thesubsequent offering.The subscription period in the subsequent offering ended on 23November 2009 at 17:30 hours (CET). In the subsequent offering,86,328,233 new common shares at NOK 7.70 per share were offered, withsubscription rights provided to shareholders as of 16 October 2009.Dockwise Ltd. has received subscriptions in the subsequent offeringfor approximately 98% of the new common shares offered. Trading inthe subscription rights, which ended by the expiry of thesubscription period, will be settled in the VPS on 26 November 2009,and an announcement of the final results of the subsequent offeringwill be issued thereafter.On basis of the preliminary results, Dockwise Ltd. expects that,in aggregate, the maximum number of new common shares offered in thedirected placement and the subsequent offering will be issued, andthe number of new common shares allocated to the new investors in thedirected placement will be reduced (claw back) as subscriptions inexcess of 10,811,897 new common shares have been received in thesubsequent offering. Further details of the number of new commonshares to be issued to the new investors in the directed placementwill be announced together with the final results of the subsequentoffering.Further information:Fons van Lith +31 76 5484116/+31 651 314 952Fons.van.lith(at)dockwise.comThis information is subject to the disclosure requirements accordingto Section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.This 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.About 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 announcement was originally distributed by Hugin. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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