11 June 2024
US Solar
Fund PLC
("USF",
or the "Company")
Final Results of Tender
Offer
The Board of Directors of USF is
pleased to announce the final results of the Tender Offer, as set
out in the shareholder circular published by the Company on 3 May
2024 (the "Circular"), which closed at 1.00 p.m. on 10 June
2024.
As previously announced, the Tender
Offer was implemented in order to return up to $19m to
Shareholders. The Tender Offer was made at the Tender Price of
$0.764 per share, equivalent to the 31 December 2023 NAV of $0.78
per share, less 2% for the costs of administering the Tender
Offer.
The Company today announces that
270,669,694 Shares have been validly tendered pursuant to the
Tender Offer.
Eligible Shareholders who validly
tendered a percentage of their Shares equal to or less than their
Basic Entitlement shall have all tendered Shares purchased in full
under the terms of the Tender Offer. Following a scale back
exercise, Shareholders who validly tendered a percentage of Shares
greater than their Basic Entitlement will have a number of Shares
equal to their Basic Entitlement purchased in full plus
approximately 0.32 per cent. of their Excess Applications, in
accordance with the process described in the Circular.
The Company will purchase in
aggregate 24,358,974 Shares under the Tender Offer
at a price of $0.764 per
share. This is the maximum number of Shares to be acquired under
the Tender Offer, representing
approximately 7.33% of the issued share capital of the
Company.
It is anticipated that by 20 June
2024, the proceeds payable to the Company's Shareholders for the
certificated Ordinary Shares purchased under the Tender Offer will
be despatched in the form of a cheque and that CREST account
holders will have their CREST accounts credited by 20 June
2024.
As set out in the Circular, the
Ordinary Shares will be purchased by Cavendish Capital Markets
Limited ("Cavendish") pursuant to the Tender Offer and the Company
will purchase such Ordinary Shares from Cavendish, which shall then
be held in treasury.
Following such purchase, the
Company's total issued share capital remains 332,192,361 Ordinary
Shares (including treasury shares). The total voting rights
will be 307,833,387 and this figure may be used by shareholders for
the calculations by which they will determine if they are required
to notify their major interest in, or a change to their major
interest in, the company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and
Transparency Rules.
Capitalised terms used in this
announcement have the meanings given to them in the
Circular.
For
further information, please contact:
US
Solar Fund
Meredith
Frost (Amber)
|
+44 20 7939 0550
|
Cavendish Capital Markets Limited
Tunga Chigovanyika
James King
Will Talkington
|
+44 20 7397 8900
|
KL
Communications
Charles Gorman
Charlotte Francis
Patrick Lodge
|
+44 20 3382 6644
|
About US Solar Fund plc
US Solar Fund plc, established in
2019, listed on the premium segment of the London Stock
Exchange in April 2019. The Company's investment
objective is to provide investors with attractive and sustainable
dividends with an element of capital growth by owning and operating
solar power assets in North America and
other OECD countries in the Americas.
The solar power assets that the
Company acquires or constructs are expected to have an asset life
of at least 30 years and generate stable and uncorrelated cashflows
by selling electricity to creditworthy offtakers under long-term
power purchase agreements (or PPAs). The Company's portfolio
currently consists of 41 operational solar projects with a total
capacity of 443MWDC, all located in the United
States.
Further information on the Company
can be found on its website at http://www.ussolarfund.co.uk.
About Amber Infrastructure Group
Amber Infrastructure (Amber) is an
international infrastructure specialist, focused on investment
origination, development, asset management and in Europe, fund
management. Amber's core business focuses on infrastructure assets
across the public, transport, energy, digital and demographic
infrastructure sectors that support the lives of people, homes and
businesses internationally.
Among other funds, Amber
Infrastructure advises International Public Partnerships,
a FTSE 250-listed Company with a market cap of
approximately £2.5 billion and 15-year track record of
long-term investment in infrastructure assets globally. Amber is
headquartered in London with offices
in Europe, North America and Australia and
employs c.180 infrastructure professionals. Amber has had a
strategic partnership with the Hunt Group of Companies in
the US since 2015. Learn more at www.amberinfrastructure.com.