EPE Special Opportunities
Limited
Announcement of Share Buy
Backs
EPE Special Opportunities Limited
("ESO" or the "Company") announces its intention to commence
purchases of ordinary shares of the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
("Share Buy Backs"), subject to availability on attractive terms.
The transactions will be in line with the Company's stated policy
to pursue Share Buy Backs.
The proposed Share Buy Backs will be
funded by the Company's cash reserves. Any Ordinary Shares
purchased by the Company will be held in treasury. Any Ordinary
Shares acquired pursuant to the Share Buy Backs will be announced
to the market without delay.
The Board believes that the current
low level of liquidity in its issued ordinary shares may limit the
progress in buying back shares. Accordingly, the Company has agreed
that on any given trading day a buyback of shares under the share
buyback programme may exceed 25 percent of the average daily
trading volume on each trading platform on which the Company's
shares are traded. Where a buyback of shares exceeds 25 per cent of
the average daily trading volume on any trading platform, the
Company will not fall within the exemption contained in Article
5(1) MAR.
The Company may when appropriate
undertake Share Buy Backs at a price that exceeds the higher of the
price of the last independent trade and the highest current
independent purchase bid on the trading venue where the purchase is
carried out (being the price stipulated by Article 3(2) of the
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 (Commission
Delegated Regulation), as referred to in Article 5(6) of the Market
Abuse Regulation).
The proposed Share Buy Backs will be
effected on behalf of the Company by its broker, Numis Securities
Limited ("Deutsche Numis").
Any purchase of the Company's
ordinary shares contemplated by this announcement will be carried
out on a regulated trading venue and, save as detailed above,
Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014 and the Commission Delegated
Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 (both as incorporated into UK domestic
law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018).
Details of any ordinary shares
repurchased will be notified to a Regulatory Information Service by
the Company following any repurchase as required by the
MAR.
This announcement does not
constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an
offer for securities in any jurisdiction.
The person responsible for releasing
this information on behalf of the Company is Amanda Robinson of
Langham Hall Fund Management (Jersey) Limited.
Enquiries:
EPIC
Investment Partners LLP
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+44 (0) 207 269 8860
Rupert Palmer
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Langham Hall Fund Management (Jersey) Limited
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+44 (0) 153 488 5200
Amanda Robinson
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Cardew Group Limited
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+44 (0) 207 930 0777
Richard Spiegelberg
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Deutsche Numis
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+44 (0) 207 260 1000
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Nominated Advisor:
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Stuart Skinner
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Corporate Broker:
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Charles Farquhar
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