Conditional Placing to Raise £252,000

 

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014.

 

27 March 2020

 

Arkle Resources PLC

 

("Arkle" or the "Company")

 

Conditional Placing to Raise £252,000

 

 

Arkle Resources PLC (LON: ARK), the Irish gold and zinc exploration and development company, is pleased to announce that it has undertaken a conditional placing with existing investors to raise £252,000 via the issue of 50,400,000 new ordinary shares (the "Placing Shares"), at a placing price of 0.5p per Placing Share (the "Placing Price").

 

Each Placing Share has one warrant attached with the right to subscribe for one new ordinary share at 0.5p per new ordinary share for a period of two years (the "Placing Warrants").

 

As the Placing Price is lower than the current nominal value of the Company's existing ordinary shares ("Existing Ordinary Shares"), being €0.01 (1 euro cent) each, the Company will shortly be convening an extraordinary general meeting ("EGM"), to be held on 22 April 2020, at which it will be proposed that each of the Existing Ordinary Shares be sub-divided into one New Ordinary Share with a nominal value of €0.0025 and one Deferred Share with a nominal value of €0.0075 (the "Share Capital Reorganisation").

 

The Deferred Shares will have no value or voting rights and they will not be admitted to trading on AIM.  Following the Share Capital Reorganisation, there will be the same number of New Ordinary Shares in issue as there are Existing Ordinary Shares. 

 

An announcement providing details of the EGM and containing further information regarding the Share Capital Reorganisation will be made in due course.

 

The funds raised are expected to provide working capital sufficient for requirements for the remainder of 2020 as well as maintaining ongoing exploration activities.   

 

Directors' Holdings

Certain directors of the Company have participated in the conditional placing as follows:

 

Name	No. of Placing Shares Issued	Resultant Shareholding	% of Enlarged Share Capital
James Finn	2,500,000	11,563,527	6.33
David Cockbill	2,000,000	2,935,408	1.61
Patrick Cullen	2,000,000	2,800,000	1.53

 

Related Party Transaction

The subscription for Placing Shares and Placing Warrants by James Finn, David Cockbill and Patrick Cullen (the "Directors' Participation") is a related party transaction under the AIM Rules for Companies.  John Teeling, who is an independent director for the purposes of the transaction, having consulted with the Company's Nominated Adviser, SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP, considers the terms of the Directors' Participation to be fair and reasonable insofar as shareholders are concerned.

 

Admission and Total Voting Rights

An application will be made for the admission of the Placing Shares to trading on AIM ("Admission").  Assuming the resolutions are passed at the EGM, Admission is expected to occur on or around 23 April 2020.

 

Following Admission, there will be a total of 182,711,593 ordinary shares in issue with each ordinary share carrying the right to one vote.  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 change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

 

ENDS

 

Enquiries:

 

Arkle Resources PLC
John Teeling, Chairman	+353 (0) 1 833 2833
Patrick Cullen, CEO	+353 (0) 87 272 1748
	+44 (0) 755 237 8208
SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP
Matthew Johnson/Soltan Tagiev	+44 (0) 203 470 0470
First Equity Limited
Jason Robertson	+44 (0) 207 374 2212
Blytheweigh	+44 (0) 207 138 3204
Megan Ray
Teneo
Luke Hogg	+353 (0) 1 661 4055
Alan Tyrrell	+353 (0) 1 661 4055

 

 

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM:

 

1	Details  of  the  persons   discharging  managerial   responsibilities I persons closely associated
a)	Names	1.   James Finn 2.   David Cockbill 3.   Patrick Cullen
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	1.   Financial Director/Company Secretary 2.   Non-Executive Director 3.   CEO
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details  of  the  issuer
a)	Name	Arkle Resources PLC
b)	LEI	213800CTOO8MOLMNEQ44
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated  for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description  of the financial  instrument, type of instrument	Ordinary Shares of €0.01 each, where each share is accompanied by one warrant.
	Identification code	ISIN for Ordinary Shares:          IE00B2357X72
b)	Nature of the transaction	Share purchase - subscription for new ordinary shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 0.5p 0.5p 0.5p 2,500,000 2,000,000 2,000,000
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume  - Price	Price(s) Volume(s) 0.5p   6,500,000
e)	Date of the transaction	26 March 2020
f)	Place of the transaction	Off-market