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IQE plc
Completion of Placing to raise £16.5 million
Cardiff, UK, 10 January 2013: IQE plc (AIM:IQE, "IQE", the "Company"
or the
"Group"), the leading global supplier of advanced semiconductor wafer products
and services to the semiconductor industry, has successfully placed 56,900,961
new ordinary shares of 1p each ("Placing Shares") at a price of 29 pence per
Placing Share raising gross proceeds of £16.5 million.
Further details of the Placing and the Group's acquisition of Kopin Wireless are
set out in the announcement released earlier today.
Application has been made for the Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on
AIM and it is expected that admission will take place at 8.00 a.m. on 15 January
2013 ("Admission").
The total number of ordinary shares of 1p each ("Ordinary Shares") in issue
following the issue of the Placing Shares is 645,116,712, each of which carry
voting rights of one vote per Ordinary Share. The Company does not hold any
Ordinary Shares in treasury and so the total number of voting rights in the
Company is currently 645,116,712.
Following Admission, the above figure of 645,116,712 Ordinary Shares may be used
by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will
determine if they are required to notify an interest in, or change to an
interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Services
Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Drew Nelson, Chief Executive of IQE said:
"We are delighted that both existing and new institutional shareholders have
strongly supported the fundraising and the acquisition of Kopin Wireless.
"This transaction will be a key driver of significant earnings and cash
generation. It also brings substantial financial and scale benefits and
underpins our leading position in the supply of wafers to the global wireless
industry."
Enquiries:
Contacts:
IQE plc +44 (0)
29 2083 9400
Drew Nelson
Phil Rasmussen
Chris Meadows
Espirito Santo Investment Bank + 44 (0)
20 7456 9191
Richard Crawley/James Staveley/Alastair Maclachlan
Canaccord Genuity
+ 44 (0) 20 7523
8000
Simon Bridges/Cameron Duncan
College Hill +44
(0) 20 7457 2020
Adrian Duffield/Kay Larsen
This Announcement has been issued by, and is the sole responsibility of, the
Company.
Execution Noble & Company Limited which is authorised and regulated in the
United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority (the "FSA"), is acting as
Nominated Adviser and broker to the Company for the purposes of the AIM Rules
for Companies and the AIM Rules for Nominated Advisers in connection with the
Placing and Admission and is not acting for, and will not be responsible to, any
person other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to
customers of Execution Noble & Company Limited or for advising any other person
on any transaction or arrangement referred to in this announcement. Execution
Noble Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the
FSA, is acting exclusively as financial adviser to and broker to IQE plc and for
no one else in connection with the Placing and is not advising any other person
or treating any other person as its customer in relation to or in connection
with the Placing and is not advising any other person or treating any other
person as its customer in relation to the matters referred to in this
announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for
providing the protections afforded to clients of Execution Noble Limited or for
providing advice in relation to the Placing or any matter referred to in this
announcement. Together Execution Noble & Company Limited and Execution Noble
Limited carry out their UK investment banking business as Espirito Santo
Investment Bank ("BESI").
Canaccord Genuity Limited ("Canaccord"), which is authorised and regulated in
the United Kingdom by the FSA, is acting exclusively as financial adviser to and
broker to IQE plc and for no one else in connection with the Placing and is not
advising any other person or treating any other person as its customer in
relation to or in connection with the Placing and is not advising any other
person or treating any other person as its customer in relation to the matters
referred to in this announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other
than the Company for providing the protections afforded to clients of Canaccord
or for providing advice in relation to the Placing or any matter referred to in
this announcement.
The distribution of this announcement and/or issue of Placing Shares pursuant to
the Placing or otherwise in certain jurisdictions outside the United Kingdom may
be restricted by law. Persons who seek to participate in the Placing must inform
themselves about and observe any such restrictions. In particular, this
announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or issue or the solicitation
of an offer to buy or subscribe for Placing Shares in the United States, Canada,
Australia, Japan, South Africa, New Zealand or the Republic of Ireland or any
other jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation, publication or
distribution is or would be unlawful.
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Source: IQE plc via Thomson Reuters ONE
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