Riverstone Credit Opportunities Income Plc
("RCOI"
or the "Company")
Quarterly
Dividend Declaration, Unaudited Net Asset Value and Compulsory
Redemption
Quarterly Dividend Declaration
The Directors of Riverstone Credit
Opportunities Income ("RCOI" or the "Company"), the LSE-listed
energy infrastructure and energy-transition credit investor,
have declared a distribution for the quarter
ending 30 June 2024 of 0.7 cents per share, payable on 20 September
2024 to holders of Ordinary Shares on the register at the close of
business on 16 August 2024 (ex-distribution date is 15 August
2024).
Any such dividend payment to
Shareholders may take the form of either dividend income or
"qualifying interest income" which may be designated as an interest
distribution for UK tax purposes and therefore subject to the
interest streaming regime applicable to investment trusts. Of this
dividend declared of 0.7 cents per share, nil cents is declared as
dividend income with 0.7 cents treated as qualifying interest
income.
Unaudited Net Asset Value
On 19 July 2024, the Company
announced an estimated unaudited net asset value ("NAV") per
Ordinary Share as at 30 June 2024 of $1.02. The Company today
announces that its final unaudited NAV per Ordinary Share as at 30
June 2024 was $1.01. This slight reduction was due a provision for
liquidation expenses being made in relation to the commencement of
the Company's managed wind-down.
Compulsory Redemption
The Company also announces its
intention to return approximately US$23,033,221 to holders of
Ordinary Shares by way of a compulsory redemption of 22,701,309
Ordinary Shares (the "Compulsory Redemption"), equal to
approximately 25 per cent of the Company's issued share capital as
at the date of this announcement.
The Compulsory Redemption will be
effected pro rata to each Shareholder's registered holding of
Ordinary Shares as at the close of business on the redemption date
for the Compulsory Redemption, at a redemption price equal to
US$1.017 per Ordinary Share redeemed, being equivalent to the
prevailing NAV per Ordinary Share of $1.01, together with the
accrued but unpaid dividend of 0.7 cents per Ordinary Share
declared today.
Further details of the Compulsory
Redemption will be announced by the Company in the near
future.
Reuben Jeffery III, Chairman of RCOI
commented:
"RCOI is pleased to declare a
dividend of 0.7 cents in respect of the second quarter of the
current year, and its first proposed return of cash to Shareholders
since the commencement of its managed wind-down at the conclusion
of its Annual General Meeting on 22 May 2024
."
For Riverstone Credit
Opportunities Income Plc:
Adam
Weiss
+1 212 271 2953
Media Contacts:
Buchanan
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Helen Tarbet
Henry Wilson
Verity Parker
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 7466 5109
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7466 5111
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7466 5197
Email: rcoi@buchanan.uk.com
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About Riverstone Credit
Opportunities Income Plc:
RCOI lends to companies that build
and operate the infrastructure used to generate, transport, store
and distribute both renewable and conventional sources of energy,
and companies that provide services to that infrastructure. RCOI is
strategically repositioning towards companies seeking to facilitate
the energy transition by decarbonizing the energy, industrial and
agricultural sectors, building sustainable infrastructure and
reducing or sequestering carbon emissions. The Company seeks to
ensure that its investments are having a positive impact on climate
change by structuring each deal as either a green loan or a
sustainability-linked loan, documented using industry best
practices.
As previously announced, on January
2, Riverstone Holdings LLC, and their affiliate Riverstone
Investment Group (collectively, "Riverstone") entered into a sub
management agreement for RCOI with Breakwall Capital LP.
Breakwall is an independent asset manager regulated by the SEC as a
Registered Investment Advisor. It is owned and operated by the
former members of the Riverstone Credit Partners team.
For further details, see https://www.riverstonecoi.com/.
Neither the contents of RCOI's
website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks
on the websites (or any other website) is incorporated into, or
forms part of, this announcement.