Shares issued in Dockwise's subsequent offering and to new investors
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.Breda, the Netherlands, 2 December 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 common shares and asubsequent offering of up to 86,328,233 new common shares, and theprospectus dated 4 November 2009. Reference is also made to theannouncement on 27 November 2009 with the final results of thesubsequent offering and allocation of shares to new investors in thedirected placement, stating that 84,707,431 new common shares wereallocated to subscribers in the subsequent offering and 60,681,660new common shares were allocated to the new investors in the directedplacement.The 60,681,660 new common shares subscribed for by and allocated toHAL Investments, Sankaty Advisors and Project Holland Fund in thedirected placement and 84,433,338 new common shares in the subsequentoffering have now been paid, issued and registered with DockwiseLtd.'s shareholder register on Bermuda and delivered to theinvestors. Dockwise Ltd. confirms that these shares are validly andlegally issued, fully paid up and properly registered with therelevant register or equivalent body. Dockwise Ltd. has registered,but not yet received payment for, the remaining 274,093 new commonshares in the subsequent offering, and the delivery of these shareswill be made on an ongoing basis as payment is received. Furtherannouncements in this respect will be made pursuant to applicablerules.Following the share issuance noted above, the new issued and fullypaid share capital of Dockwise Ltd. is USD 412,603,356, divided on412,603,356 common shares, which is expected to represent an issuedshare capital of approximately USD 103,150,000 divided on 20,630,000common shares, each with a par value of USD 5, following the capitalreduction and the settlement of the 20:1 share consolidation (orreverse stock split) that become effective today. A notice with thefinal new share capital and number of new shares will be issued on 7December 2009.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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