Stockmann announces the results of the Share Issue; listing application submitted
STOCKMANN plc, Other information disclosed according to the rules of the Exchange 5.7.2021 at 9:45 EET
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Results of the Share Issue
Stockmann plc's ("Stockmann" or the "Company") General Meeting of Shareholders resolved on 7 April 2021, in accordance with the terms of the Company's restructuring programme approved by Helsinki District Court on 9 February 2021 (as amended, the "Restructuring Programme"), to authorize the Board of Directors of the Company to decide on a directed share issue of at most 100,000,000 new shares of the Company to creditors of unsecured restructuring debt and hybrid bond creditors (as defined in the Restructuring Programme), to enable conversion of parts of their receivables into shares in the Company. The Board of Directors resolved on 18 May 2021, pursuant to the authorization granted by the General Meeting, on a share issue of at most 100,000,000 new shares of the Company ("Conversion Shares"), carried out in deviation from the shareholders’ pre-emptive subscription rights (the "Share Issue"). Furthermore, pursuant to the Restructuring Programme, the creditors of unsecured restructuring debt were entitled to convert their receivables under the payment programme of the Restructuring Programme to new senior secured bonds issued by the Company. Stockmann announces the results of the bond issuance by a separate release today.
The subscription period of the Share Issue ended on 18 June 2021. After verification of the subscription results, a total of 79,335,175 Conversion Shares were subscribed for in the Share Issue. The subscription price was EUR 0.9106 per share and as a result approximately EUR 72.2 million of Stockmann's unsecured restructuring debt and hybrid loan debt has been converted into shares in the Company. The remainder of that part of the confirmed unsecured restructuring debt and hybrid loan debt which would have been eligible for share conversion in the Share Issue will be cut in accordance with the Restructuring Programme. Stockmann’s Board of Directors has today approved the subscriptions made in the Share Issue and the allocation of the Conversion Shares in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Share Issue. As a result of the Share Issue, the total number of shares in the Company will increase by 79,335,175 shares to a total of 154,436,944 shares.
Following the Share Issue and bond issuance, the remaining confirmed unsecured restructuring debt under the payment programme of the Restructuring Programme amounts to approximately EUR 21.8 million. However, the Company has under the Restructuring Programme also restructuring debt that is conditional, maximum amount or disputed in respect of which the amount subject to the payment programme will be confimed later and the creditors of such restructuring debt will be entitled to convert their receivables to shares and bonds after their respective receivables have been confirmed.
Registration and listing of the shares
The Conversion Shares will be registered with the Finnish Trade Register and recorded on the book-entry accounts of the investors on or about 6 July, 2021. Trading with the Conversion Shares is expected to commence on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd on or about 7 July, 2021.
The Conversion Shares will confer a right to dividends and other shareholder rights from their registration with the Finnish Trade Register and their delivery to the shareholder’s book-entry account. The Conversion Shares will, as of their registration and delivery to the book-entry accounts, confer the same rights as the Company’s other shares.
Stockmann has today submitted an application for the Conversion Shares to be admitted to trading on the main market of Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Trading with the Conversion Shares is expected to commence on or about 7 July 2021 under the trading code "STOCKA".
Evli Bank Plc acted as the lead arranger of the Share Issue (the "Lead Arranger").
Further information:
Jari Latvanen, CEO, tel. +358 9 121 5606
Pekka Vähähyyppä, CFO, tel. +358 9 121 3351
Henna Tuominen, Director, Communications, CSR and IR, tel. +358 50 5705080
STOCKMANN plc
Jari Latvanen
CEO
Distribution:
Nasdaq Helsinki
Principal media
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