poLight ASA – Successful completion of initial public offering
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Horten, 27 September 2018: poLight ASA ("poLight" or the "Company", ticker "PLT") hereby announces the successful completion of its initial public offering (the "Offering" or the "IPO"). The first day of trading in the Company's shares on the Oslo Stock Exchange is expected to be Monday 1 October 2018.
"We are very excited by the strong support received from both institutional and retail investors. Becoming a listed company is an important step for poLight and strengthens our position as we work towards a commercial breakthrough. We look forward to continuing to develop poLight as a publicly listed company together with our existing and new shareholders," commented Øyvind Isaksen, CEO of poLight.
Summary of the terms in the Offering:
- poLight will issue 2,600,000 new shares in the Offering, thereby raising gross proceeds of NOK 130 million.
- The shares in the Offering are priced at NOK 50 per share. The price implies a market capitalisation of poLight after the Offering of NOK 401 million.
- The net proceeds in the Offering will be used to fund the operations of the Company until the products are anticipated commercialised as well as further development of the Group's products.
- The Managers (as defined below) have over-allotted 390,000 shares, representing 15% of the number of shares to be issued in the Offering before over-allotments, and exercised their option to borrow an equal number of shares from Viking Venture III AS for the purpose of covering the over-allotments.
- Trading in the shares of poLight on Oslo Børs is expected to commence on 1 October 2018.
A total of 2,990,000 shares (including over-allotted shares) were allotted in the Offering, of which approximately 95% of the shares were allotted to investors in the institutional tranche of the Offering and approximately 5% of the shares were allotted to investors in the retail tranche of the Offering. Following completion of the Offering, the Company will have more than 500 shareholders. Following registration of the share capital increase pertaining to the new shares, the share capital of the Company will be NOK 1,604,562.20 divided into 8,022,811 shares, each with a nominal value of NOK 0.20.
Notifications of allotted shares and the corresponding amount to be paid by investors are expected to be communicated to the investors on or about 28 September 2018. Investors having access to investor services through their VPS account manager will be able to check the number of shares allocated to them from approximately 08:00 hours (CEST) on 28 September 2018. The Managers (as defined below) may also be contacted for information regarding allocation.
The Company has granted the Managers (as defined below) a green-shoe option, exercisable by ABG Sundal Collier ASA as stabilisation manager, within 30 days from the first day of trading in the shares of poLight on the Oslo Stock Exchange, to cover over-allotments in connection with the Offering. Assuming that the green-shoe option granted by the Company to ABG Sundal Collier (as stabilisation manager) is exercised in full, the Company will issue an additional 390,000 new shares and there will be 8,412,811 shares in the Company. A separate disclosure will be issued by the stabilisation manager regarding the over-allotment and stabilisation activities.
ABG Sundal Collier ASA and Arctic Securities AS (jointly the "Managers"), are acting as joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners in the Offering. Nordnet Bank AB is acting as placing agent in the retail offering on behalf of the Managers.
Advokatfirmaet CLP DA is acting as legal advisor to poLight. Aabø-Evensen & Co Advokatfirma AS is acting as legal advisors to the Managers.
Enquiries
Eivind Bergsmyr, Chairman of poLight, +47 920 99 010
Øyvind Isaksen, CEO of poLight, + 47 908 76 398
This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
About poLight ASA
poLight has developed a new autofocus lens which "replicates" the human eye for use in mobile devices and other applications with integrated cameras. poLight’s TLens is ready for introduction in the smartphone camera module market, offering considerable benefits such as extremely fast focus, compact xy-dimension (i.e. small footprint), no electromagnetic interference, low power consumption and constant field of view. poLight is based in Horten, Norway, with offices in Finland, France and China and representation in Taiwan and Korea.
For more information visit www.polight.com.
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The Shares of the Company may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The Shares of the Company have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act. Any sale in the United States of the securities mentioned in this communication will be made solely to "qualified institutional buyers" as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
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