Admission of New Shares
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26 July 2021
EnQuest PLC
Admission of New Shares
EnQuest PLC ("EnQuest", or the "Company") today announces that, pursuant to the Firm Placing and Placing and Open Offer (the "Capital Raising") announced on 30 June 2021, 190,122,384 New Ordinary Shares will be admitted to listing on the premium segment of the Official List of the FCA and will be admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities at 8.00 a.m. today. The New Ordinary Shares will also be admitted to trading on NASDAQ Stockholm today, and such admission will be effective at 9.00 a.m. (Stockholm time).
The total issued share capital of the Company following Admission will be 1,885,924,339 Ordinary Shares and the total number of voting rights of the Company will be 1,885,924,339 and this figure may be used by Shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
All capitalised terms in this announcement but not defined herein have the meaning given to them in the combined circular and prospectus of the Company published on 30 June 2021 (the "Prospectus"), which is available on the Company's website (www.enquest.com).
For more information, please contact:
EnQuest PLC Tel: +44 (0)20 7925 4900
Amjad Bseisu (Chief Executive)
Jonathan Swinney (Chief Financial Officer)
Ian Wood (Head of Communications & Investor Relations)
Jonathan Edwards (Senior Investor Relations & Communications Manager)
J.P. Morgan Cazenove Tel: +44 (0)20 7742 4000
Jamie Riddell
Barry Meyers
Fraser Jamieson
Tulchan Communications Tel: +44 (0)20 7353 4200
Martin Robinson
Martin Pengelley
Harry Cameron
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
This announcement has been issued by and is the sole responsibility of the Company. The information contained in this announcement is for background purposes only and does not purport to be full or complete. This announcement is not a prospectus or prospectus equivalent but an advertisement and investors should not subscribe for, or otherwise purchase, acquire, sell or dispose of any of the securities referred to in this announcement except on the basis of the information contained in the Prospectus published by the Company in connection with the Capital Raising.
No reliance may or should be placed by any person for any purpose whatsoever on the information contained in this announcement or on its accuracy or completeness. The information in this announcement is subject to change. Neither this announcement nor anything contained in it shall form the basis of, or be relied upon in conjunction with, any offer or commitment whatsoever in any jurisdiction. Investors should not acquire any New Ordinary Shares referred to in this announcement except on the basis of the information contained in the Prospectus published by the Company in connection with the Capital Raising.
This announcement is for information purposes only and is not intended and does not constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to purchase or subscribe for, or any solicitation to purchase or subscribe for, any securities of the Company in any jurisdiction. No offer or invitation to purchase or subscribe for, or any solicitation to purchase or subscribe for the New Ordinary Shares will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer or solicitation is unlawful. The information contained in this announcement is not for release, publication or distribution to persons in the United States or any Excluded Territory, and should not be distributed, forwarded to or transmitted in or into any jurisdiction, where to do so might constitute a violation of local securities laws or regulations.
This announcement or any part of it does not constitute or form part of any offer to issue or sell, or the solicitation of an offer to acquire, purchase or subscribe for, any securities in the United States or any Excluded Territory. No public offering of securities is being made in any such jurisdiction.
The securities referred to herein have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or under the securities laws or with any securities regulatory authority of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States, and accordingly may not be offered, sold, pledged or transferred, directly or indirectly, in, into or within the United States. There is no intention to register any portion of any offering in the United States or to conduct a public offering of securities in the United States.
The distribution of this announcement in and the offering of the New Ordinary Shares in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. No action has been taken by the Company, J.P Morgan Cazenove or any of their respective affiliates that would permit an offer of the New Ordinary Shares or possession or distribution of this announcement or any other offering or publicity material relating to the New Ordinary Shares in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required. Persons into whose possession this announcement comes are required by the Company and J.P. Morgan Cazenove to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions. Any failure to comply with this restriction may constitute a violation of the securities laws of such jurisdictions.
J.P. Morgan Securities plc (which conducts its UK investment banking activities as J.P. Morgan Cazenove) is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority (the "PRA") and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority and the PRA. J.P. Morgan Cazenove is acting exclusively for the Company and no one else in connection with the Transaction or any other matter referred to in this announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded its clients nor for providing advice in relation to the Transaction or any other matter referred to in this announcement.
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