TIDMSWAP
RNS Number : 8110A
MoneySwap Plc
29 March 2017
The information contained within this announcement is deemed by
the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under
the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014.
29 March 2017
MoneySwap plc
("MoneySwap" or the "Company")
Posting of circular, notice of EGM and update regarding
suspension
Posting of circular
Further to the announcement on 21 March 2017, the Company will
today post to its shareholders a circular (the "Circular")
containing a notice convening an extraordinary general meeting (the
"EGM") to be held at 10:00 a.m. on 20 April 2017 at the offices of
Allenby Capital Limited, 3 St. Helen's Place, London, EC3A 6AB.
The purpose of the EGM is to approve, inter alia:
i. the subscription for new ordinary shares in the Company by
Wraith Holding B.V. ("Wraith"), together with certain options to be
granted to Wraith to subscribe for additional new ordinary
shares;
ii. the grant of the fee conversion options to an existing
director, a former director and a substantial shareholder;
iii. the waiver of certain existing options held by the board
and a former director of the Company; and
iv. the adoption of new articles of association of the Company.
(together the "Proposals").
Extracts from the Circular are set out below and a copy of the
Circular, along with the proposed amendments to the Company's
articles of association, will shortly be available on the Company's
website, www.moneyswapholdings.com.
Update regarding suspension
The Company's ordinary shares (the "Ordinary Shares") are
currently suspended from trading on AIM pending the Company putting
in place a new depository interest ("DI") facility representing the
Company's Ordinary Shares. The Company submitted the requisite
legal opinions and other necessary documents to Euroclear (the
entity which administers the DI facility) on 24 March 2017. The
Company anticipates that the new DI facility will be in place on or
about 10 April 2017. Once a new DI facility has been established,
the Board anticipates that trading in the Ordinary Shares on AIM
will be restored.
Shareholders who previously traded their Ordinary Shares in
uncertificated form through the previous DI facility will have
received a share certificate in respect of their Ordinary Shares
when the DI facility was cancelled. An update will be provided in
due course on the process for enabling the electronic trading of
Ordinary Shares through the new DI facility.
For further information, please contact:
MoneySwap Plc Allenby Capital Limited
Interim Chief Executive Nominated Adviser
Craig Niven Nick Naylor / James
Reeve
+44 7767 497400 +44 20 3328 5656
EXTRACTS FROM THE CIRCULAR
The following has been extracted without amendment from, and
should be read in conjunction with, the Circular to Shareholders
dated 28 March 2017, available from the Company's website,
www.moneyswapholdings.com.
EXPECTED TIMETABLE OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS
Publication of this Circular 28 March 2017
Latest time and date for receipt 10.00 a.m. on 17
of Forms of Direction April 2017
Latest time and date for receipt 10.00 a.m. on 18
of Forms of Proxy April 2017
Extraordinary General Meeting 10.00 a.m. on 20
April 2017
SUBSCRIPTION STATISTICS
Issue Price GBP0.001
Existing Ordinary Shares 1,197,755,282
Initial Subscription Shares* 2,443,420,775
Enlarged Share Capital* 3,641,176,057
Gross aggregate proceeds of the GBP2,443,421
Initial Subscription*
Maximum number of new Ordinary
Shares that could be issued pursuant
to the Subscription Option assuming
no other new Ordinary Shares are
issued prior to the exercise of
the Subscription Option 1,149,845,071
Maximum number of Ordinary Shares
that can be issued to Wraith assuming
no other new Ordinary Shares are
issued other than the Subscription
Shares and the Wraith Further
Option is not exercised 3,593,265,846
Maximum number of Fee Conversion
Shares that could be issued pursuant
to the Fee Conversion Options 224,634,147
Number of Management Options being
waived 19,666,081
Existing Options 41,312,800
Fully Diluted Share Capital** 5,854,808,916
*Assuming no other new Ordinary Shares are issued prior to
Completion
**Assuming exercise in full of the Subscription Option, the Fee
Conversion Options, all Existing Options and the Wraith Further
Option, and assuming no other new Ordinary Shares are issued
LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF MONEYSWAP PLC
1. Introduction
Further to the discussions with Wraith, as announced by the
Company on 6 March 2017, the Board announced on 21 March 2017 that
MoneySwap had entered into a conditional Subscription Agreement
with Wraith to raise approximately GBP2.44 million (before
expenses) for the Company by way of the Initial Subscription. In
addition, the Company has granted Wraith the Subscription Option
and the Wraith Further Option. Wraith is a privately-owned company
incorporated in the Netherlands, controlled by Gilbert Armenta,
that has been incorporated for the purpose of investing in
MoneySwap. Further details on Wraith are set out in paragraph 4
below.
The purpose of this Circular is to set out the background to and
reasons for the Proposals and why the Board considers them to be in
the best interests of the Company and its Shareholders as a
whole.
The Proposals comprise:
(i) Wraith's subscription (assuming no other new Ordinary Shares
are issued by the Company prior to Completion) for 2,443,420,775
Initial Subscription Shares, raising approximately GBP2.44 million
and which will result in Wraith acquiring an interest equivalent to
67.1 per cent. of the Company's Enlarged Share Capital;
(ii) the grant of the Subscription Option, which gives Wraith
the option to subscribe for, at the Issue Price, new Ordinary
Shares in such number as would enable Wraith to increase its
interest to up to a total of 75 per cent. of the Increased Share
Capital;
(iii) the grant of the Wraith Further Option, which gives Wraith
the option to subscribe for, at the Issue Price, three times the
number of any new Ordinary Shares issued to any person other than
Wraith in the period between Completion and 12 August 2021, so as
to ensure that Wraith has the right to subscribe for up to 75 per
cent. of the Fully Diluted Share Capital;
(iv) the grant of the Fee Conversion Options by the Company to
the Current Director, the Former Director and the Substantial
Shareholder;
(v) the waiver of the Management Options;
(vi) the resignation of the Current Director and the appointment
of the Proposed Directors to the Board; and
(vii) the adoption of the New Articles.
As part of the negotiations relating to the Subscription, the
Company has agreed to grant the Fee Conversion Options to certain
individuals in respect of the outstanding fees owed to them by
MoneySwap. The Fee Conversion Options will, on Completion, be
granted by the Company to the Fee Conversion Option Holders,
pursuant to which the Fee Conversion Option Holders will agree not
to demand repayment of the unpaid fees due to them by the Group
(which total approximately GBP224,635) for a period of 15 months
following Completion. During that 15-month period following
Completion, those unpaid fees can, on exercise of the Fee
Conversion Options by the Fee Conversion Option Holders, be used to
satisfy the Fee Conversion Exercise Price for the issue of the Fee
Conversion Shares to them (and as a result the outstanding fees
will be treated as having been paid in full). In addition, the
Management Option Holders have agreed, conditional on Completion,
that all outstanding Management Options issued to them will be
waived. Further details on the Fee Conversion Options and waiver of
the Management Options are set out in paragraph 7 below.
Conditional on Completion, Emma Xu, a Non-Executive Director,
will resign from the Board and William Morro and Calvin Yan will be
appointed to the Board. Further details on the proposed Board
Changes are set out in paragraph 6 below.
The Subscription, the grant of the Fee Conversion Options, the
waiver of the Management Options, the Board Changes and the
adoption of the New Articles are conditional on, inter alia,
Completion and the passing of the Resolutions at the Extraordinary
General Meeting, which is to be held at the offices of Allenby
Capital Limited at 3 St Helen's Place, London EC3A 6AB on 20 April
2017 at 10.00 a.m. Further details of the Resolutions are set out
below and a Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting is contained at
the end of this Circular.
The Company has received irrevocable undertakings from
Shareholders owning 927,586,494 Existing Ordinary Shares (being
77.44 per cent. of the Existing Ordinary Shares) to vote in favour
of the Resolutions at the Extraordinary General Meeting. Details of
those irrevocable undertakings are set out in paragraph 15
below.
Having spent a significant amount of time seeking additional
funding, the Board believes that the Subscription is the only
option available to the Company at the current time that will
provide the Company with sufficient working capital to continue as
a going concern. Should the Resolutions not be passed at the
Extraordinary General Meeting, the Board considers there to be a
significant chance that the Directors would need to take actions to
protect the interest of creditors, which may result in the ultimate
winding up of the Company.
Your attention is drawn to the Notice of Extraordinary General
Meeting contained at the end of this document and paragraphs 13 and
14 below, which explain the purpose of the Extraordinary General
Meeting and action to be taken by you in relation to the Notice of
Extraordinary General Meeting.
2. Details of the Subscription
On 20 March 2017, the Company and Wraith entered into a
conditional Subscription Agreement that contains a number of
conditions, further details of which are set out below, and
provides for:
i) an initial investment by Wraith of approximately GBP2.44
million through the issue of the 2,443,420,775 Initial Subscription
Shares at the Issue Price;
ii) the grant to Wraith of the Subscription Option, exercisable
at the Issue Price, to acquire (when taken together with the
Ordinary Shares held by Wraith pursuant to the Initial
Subscription) up to 75 per cent. of the Increased Share Capital.
The Subscription Option would result (assuming that the Company
does not issue Ordinary Shares to anyone other than Wraith in the
interim period and assuming exercise in full) in the issue of a
further 1,149,845,071 Subscription Option Shares to Wraith, which
would raise approximately an additional GBP1.15 million for the
Company. The Subscription Option is exercisable (in whole or in
part) by Wraith at any time during the two years following
Completion; and
iii) the Wraith Further Option, whereby, if any Ordinary Shares
are issued to any person other than Wraith, at any time between
Completion and 12 August 2021, Wraith has the right (but not the
obligation) to subscribe for three times the number of Ordinary
Shares issued to that person at the Issue Price (to ensure that
Wraith's shareholding is not diluted as a result of those issue(s)
of shares, provided that the Wraith Further Option shall not be
used by Wraith to enable Wraith to hold more than 75 per cent. of
the issued share capital of the Company).
Following the issue of the Initial Subscription Shares, Wraith
will hold a 67.1 per cent. interest in the Enlarged Share Capital
(provided no other new Ordinary Shares are issued by the Company
before Completion). If Wraith exercises the Subscription Option in
full, it would hold 3,593,265,846 new Ordinary Shares, equivalent
to 75 per cent. of the Company's Increased Share Capital (noting
the Wraith Further Option described above, and assuming no other
new Ordinary Shares are issued by the Company following the Initial
Subscription).
The Subscription is conditional on satisfaction or waiver by
Wraith of the Conditions.
3. Use of proceeds of the Initial Subscription
The subscription amount of the Initial Subscription of
approximately GBP2.44 million will be settled as to:
(a) the extinguishment of the amount due to Wraith under the
Loan Agreement (details of which were announced on 6 March 2017),
which, as at the date of this document totals a principal amount of
USD 435,000;
(b) the extinguishment of additional amounts due to Wraith,
totalling USD 1.425 million (and which arose as a result of certain
loan assignments which were announced on 6 March 2017); and
(c) cash to meet the transaction costs not already funded from
monies advanced by Wraith under the Loan Agreement, trade and other
creditors and the general working capital requirements of the
Company.
4. Information on Wraith
Wraith is a Netherlands based investment company wholly owned by
Gilbert Armenta and incorporated for the purpose of investing in
MoneySwap. It has not traded to date and has been funded by Gilbert
Armenta and other affiliated entities under his control. Gilbert
Armenta has considerable experience in the payments sector and is
the founder and chief executive officer of Fates Group, a family
office management enterprise created to bring traditional venture
capital operating methodologies and private equity financial
sophistication to mid-market investments. Fates Group is focused on
investment in three core market segments: (i) real estate and
towers for telecommunications infrastructure; (ii) renewable
energy; and (iii) process management systems in the financial
services sector.
Following Completion, Wraith will work closely with MoneySwap to
assist MoneySwap in developing its payment process business, both
by providing technical and business development assistance and in
introducing opportunities for new business. The Company and Wraith
intend to enter into commercial agreements on terms to be agreed
detailing the nature and terms of such assistance, further details
of which will be announced in due course.
The directors of Wraith are Gilbert Armenta and William
Morro.
5. Relationship Agreement
Wraith, Allenby Capital and the Company will enter into the
Relationship Agreement on Completion, which will regulate the
ongoing relationship between the Company and Wraith to ensure that
the Company is at all times capable of carrying on its business
independently of Wraith and its respective associates and that any
future transactions between the Company and Wraith and its
respective associates are conducted on an arm's-length basis.
Under the Relationship Agreement, Wraith has the right to
nominate one person to be a director of the Company for so long as
it (together with its associates) holds 10 per cent. or more of
total voting rights in the Company, and to nominate two persons to
be directors of the Company for so long as it (together with its
associates) holds 30 per cent. or more of total voting rights in
the Company. William Morro, who is proposed to be appointed as a
director of MoneySwap with effect from Completion, is the sole
nominee of Wraith to be appointed to the Board pursuant to its
rights under the Relationship Agreement. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, Wraith has the right to replace William Morro as one of
its nominee directors and to nominate a second director following
Completion, subject to the satisfactory completion of regulatory
due diligence.
Further details of the Relationship Agreement are set out in the
Appendix to the Circular.
6. Board Changes
Conditional on Completion, the following changes to the
composition of the Board will be effected:
i) Emma Xu will resign from her position as a Non-Executive Director on the Board;
ii) Calvin Yan, the Company's existing financial controller,
will join the Board as Chief Financial Officer; and
iii) William Morro will be appointed as a Non-Executive Director
on the Board. William Morro is a nominee director of Wraith.
Following Completion, the Board composition will be as
follows:
Craig Niven Chairman and Interim
Chief Executive
Calvin Yan Chief Financial Officer
Javier Amo Fernandez Non-Executive Director
de Avila
William Morro Non-Executive Director
It is intended that a new full-time Chief Executive will be
identified and appointed in due course.
Biographies of the Proposed Directors
Calvin Yan
Since 2013, Calvin Yan (aged 45) has been the Chief Financial
Officer (non-Board) of the Company and is responsible for the
overall financial management of the Group.
Previously, Calvin Yan was group chief financial officer of
Greenwood Financial PR and prior to that he had spent 13 years with
The Nielsen Company, the worldwide leader in market research, where
he worked across finance, operations, client-facing, IT &
systems development, facility, and legal divisions, covering
Greater China and Asia Pacific. His last position at Nielsen was
finance director and chief financial officer for China, based in
Shanghai. Earlier in his career, Mr Yan worked with Schneider
Electric and The Clorox Company.
Calvin Yan has bachelor's and master's degrees in Business
Administration and Accounting from the University of Southern
California. He is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified
Public Accountants.
There are no known disclosures needed to be made at this time
under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules in respect of Calvin Yan's
proposed appointment.
William Morro
William Morro (aged 63) has three decades of senior executive
and board experience with more than 20 companies, both public and
private, in which he has been a direct investor. In February 2014,
he joined the board of BlueNRGY Group Ltd, a US listed
technology-based solutions provider focused on renewable energy and
energy-efficiency sectors, and was appointed managing director and
chairman in Jan 2015. William Morro is a managing partner of the
InterAmerican Group, a U.S. investment, strategic consulting and
advisory firm focused primarily on middle-market businesses with
cross-border operations in North America and/or Latin America.
Prior to joining InterAmerican in 2001, William Morro headed
private equity business units for BMO Group and Heller Financial
and was a principal and shareholder of the international management
consulting firm, Cresap, McCormick & Paget until shortly after
its acquisition by Towers, Perrin.
William Morro holds an undergraduate degree in engineering and
chemistry from Dartmouth College and a master's degree with
concentrations in finance and economics from the Kellogg Graduate
School of Management at Northwestern University.
William Morro currently holds, or has held within the previous
five years, directorship or partnership positions with the entities
set out in the table below:
Current directorships/partnerships Directorships/partnerships
held within previous five
years
InterAmerican Advisors Eco-Kinetics Group Pty
LLC Ltd*
InterAmerican Acquisition Eco-Kinetics Pty Ltd*
Group Inc. Eco-Kinetics NSW Pty Ltd*
InterAmerican Capital Partners Eco-Kinetics Victoria Pty
II LLC Ltd*
BlueNRGY Group Ltd (prev. Eco-Kinetics Northern Territory
CBD Energy Ltd) Pty Ltd*
IHL Acquisition Co Pty Eco-Kinetics Energy Systems
Ltd Pty Ltd*
BlueNRGY LLC Remote Area Power Systems
BlueNRGY Renewable Solutions Pty Ltd*
Pty Ltd (formerly Westinghouse CBD Solar Labs Pty Ltd*
Solar Pty Ltd) KI Solar Pty Ltd*
Draker Corporation Boardman Molded International
Parmac Air Conditioning LLC
& Mechanical Services Pty
Ltd
Green Earth Developers
LLC
CNC Development Limited
Sing Kung Limited
ZGL XII Limited
Air Desert Rose Limited
Calenmore Limited
ESOL B.V.
EO Asset Management B.V.
Wraith Holding B.V.
Orpheus B.V.
WHI, Inc.
OMS Program Management
LLC
iCARD1 Inc
Zala Group Limited
AEE Power Corporacion S.A.
(Spain)
AEE Acquisition Holdings
LLC
IAG Sportsman's Card LLC
Sportsman's Card Program
Management LLC
Fibrex Cordage LLC (formerly, Wellington Cordage LLC), a company
for which William Morro served as a director, filed for bankruptcy
protection under Chapter 11, as a result of which its assets were
sold and distributed to secured creditors in full satisfaction of
their debt. Following the sale, the insolvency proceedings of that
company were converted to a Chapter 7 and discharged in 2015 with
an indeterminate amount payable to unsecured creditors.
On 14 November 2014, while William Morro was serving as a
director, an administrator was voluntarily appointed by CBD Energy
Ltd (now BlueNRGY Group Ltd) that resulted in the adoption of a
deed of company arrangement for the company and its subsidiary,
Westinghouse Solar Pty Ltd. that was effective as of 27 January
2015. After conclusion of the administration, no obligations
remained outstanding to pre-administration creditors of CBD Energy
Ltd. and Westinghouse Solar Pty Ltd. Certain other subsidiaries,
including those marked with an asterisk (*) in the table of past
directorships above, were liquidated as part of this administration
process.
7. Fee Conversion Options and the waiver of the Management Options
Outstanding fees in respect of unpaid salary and consultancy
services are currently owed by the Group to each of the Former
Director, the Current Director and the Substantial Shareholder. On
Completion, the Company will enter into option agreements with each
of these individuals, granting each of these individuals the right
to subscribe for the Fee Conversion Shares at the Fee Conversion
Exercise Price. The right to subscribe for the Fee Conversion
Shares will be capable of being exercised by each relevant
individual (at the discretion of each individual) during the period
commencing three months after Completion, and ending after 15
months following Completion. The subscription price for the Fee
Conversion Shares due on exercise of the Fee Conversion Options is
equal to the amount of the outstanding fees currently owed to each
of the relevant individuals, such that upon the exercise of the Fee
Conversion Options by each individual, the amount of the fees owed
to the relevant individual by the Group will be set-off against the
relevant individual's obligation to pay the subscription price for
the Fee Conversion Shares.
The Fee Conversion Options will be issued as follows:
Fee Conversion Outstanding Fee Conversion
Option Holder fees (GBP) Options
Emma Xu 81,301 81,300,813
Kung Min Lin 45,772 45,772,358
Henry Lin 97,561 97,560,976
TOTAL 224,634 224,634,147
Under the terms of the Fee Conversion Options, each individual
will agree that, during the period of the Fee Conversion Options,
he or she will not be entitled to make any demand of the Group for
outstanding fees, but if any individual does not exercise the Fee
Conversion Options before the end of 15 months following
Completion, at the end of that period the fees owed by the Group to
that individual will be payable on demand.
On Completion, the Management Option Holders will enter into
deeds of waiver in favour of the Company pursuant to which each
Management Option Holder will waive in full and cancel the
Management Options.
The Management Option Holders, and the number of Management
Options that they will each be waiving is set out in the table
below:
Management Option Holder Management
Options being
waived
Craig Niven 2,994,159
Emma Xu 5,428,927
Javier Amo Fernandez
de Avila 5,083,967
Kung Min Lin 6,159,028
TOTAL 19,666,081
8. Significant shareholders' and Directors' shareholdings
Assuming the passing of the Resolutions at the Extraordinary
General Meeting and following Completion, insofar as the Company is
aware, the shareholdings of the Directors and the Company's
significant Shareholders would be as follows:
Interest
in Ordinary
Shares
Current following
interest Interest Completion
Current as a percentage in Ordinary as %age
interest of the Shares of Enlarged
in Ordinary Existing following Share
Holder Name Shares Shares Completion Capital
Wraith Holding B.V. - 0.00% 2,443,420,775 67.11%
Broad Rivers International
Limited 287,500,000 24.00% 287,500,000 7.90%
LLV Company Ltd 227,483,488 18.99% 227,483,488 6.25%
Ton Yuan Enterprise
Limited 152,403,370 12.72% 152,403,370 4.19%
Henry Lin(1) 132,828,136 11.09% 132,828,136 3.65%
Kung Min Lin 63,170,055 5.27% 63,170,055 1.73%
Emma Xu 11,891,187 0.99% 11,891,187 0.33%
Javier Amo Fernandez
de Avila 10,167,934 0.85% 10,167,934 0.28%
Craig Niven 5,988,317 0.50% 5,988,317 0.16%
Notes
1: The figure for Henry Lin's shareholding includes the Ordinary
Shares in which he is beneficially interested indirectly via his
controlling interests in Kolarmy Technology Inc, Power Capital
Exchange Corp, and Power Capital Forex Management Limited.
2. The above table takes no account of the Subscription Option
or the Wraith Further Option or the Fee Conversion Options.
9. Lock-ins and orderly market arrangements
Wraith, Allenby Capital and MoneySwap will enter into the
Lock-in Agreement on Completion. The Lock-in Agreement will contain
clauses that govern the circumstances under which Wraith may sell
the Subscription Shares. Further details of the Lock-In Agreement
are set out in the Appendix to the Circular.
10. Admission and lifting of the Suspension
Conditional on, inter alia, the passing of the Resolutions and
the satisfaction or waiver by Wraith of the Conditions, application
will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the Initial
Subscription Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is
currently anticipated that Admission will become effective and that
dealings in the Initial Subscription Shares on AIM will commence by
the end of June 2017.
The Ordinary Shares were suspended from trading on AIM on 21
September 2016 due to the Company's failure to publish its annual
report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2016 (the "2016
Results") within six months of the Company's year-end. In addition,
the Company was required under the AIM Rules for Companies to
publish the interim results for the six months to 30 September 2016
(the "Interim Results") before 31 December 2016.
Following the publication of the 2016 Results and the Interim
Results on 21 March 2017, those Suspension conditions have now been
addressed. However, the Company has recently been informed by the
provider of its Depositary Interests that, as a result of unpaid
fees due to the Company's working capital constraints, the
Depositary Interest facility put in place at the time of the
admission of the Company's Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM in
2011 has been cancelled. At this time all dematerialised interests
were converted into certificated form, and Shareholders should have
each received a share certificate in respect of their holdings of
Ordinary Shares. As the Company is incorporated in Gibraltar, the
Ordinary Shares are not eligible for electronic settlement in the
UK. The DIs were put in place in order to provide holders of
Ordinary Shares with a mechanism of electronic settlement using the
CREST system.
The AIM Rules for Companies require that all AIM companies must
ensure that their securities are eligible for electronic
settlement, and the Company is currently unable to comply with its
obligations under AIM Rule 36 in this regard. As a result, the
Ordinary Shares will remain suspended from trading on AIM until
such time as the Company has put in place a replacement DI
facility. The Company submitted the requisite legal opinions and
other necessary documents to Euroclear (the entity which
administers the DI facility) on 24 March 2017. The Company
anticipates that the new DI facility will be in place on or about
10 April 2017. Once a new DI facility has been established the
Board anticipates that trading in the Ordinary Shares on AIM will
be restored. An update will be provided in due course on the
process for enabling the electronic trading of Ordinary Shares
through the new DI facility. Shareholders who elect to
dematerialise their shareholdings of Ordinary Shares prior to the
EGM will find a Form of Direction included with this document in
relation to the EGM.
11. Current trading and prospects
In the months prior to its suspension from trading, the
Company's trading has been adversely affected by the lack of access
to adequate working capital and the uncertainty surrounding the
financial viability of the business and its ability to raise
capital. The Company's trading has also been adversely affected by
the departure of a number of employees. With the proceeds from the
Subscription and the Board Changes, it is expected that progress
can be made towards building increased revenue streams based on the
platforms and licences currently held by the Company, but there can
be no assurance that this will be sufficient for the Company to
attain profitability or to preclude the necessity of raising
further capital that could be dilutive to Shareholders'
interests.
The Directors anticipate that, subject to passing the
Resolutions and the satisfaction or waiver by Wraith of the
Conditions, Completion will occur within three months following the
EGM date. However, satisfaction of certain of the Conditions, such
as the receipt of the letter of no objection to the changes of
qualifying holding in the Company from the FCA, are outside the
control of the Company and Wraith. There can therefore be no
guarantee as to when Completion will occur, if at all. In the
period between the Extraordinary General Meeting and Completion,
the Company will continue to be funded by draw-downs pursuant to
the Loan Agreement (further details of which can be found in the
Company's announcement of 6 March 2017). As at the date of this
document, the Company is indebted to Wraith in a total principal
amount of USD 435,000 under the Loan Agreement. The Loan Agreement
provides a secured loan facility to MoneySwap of USD 725,000.
Amounts drawn down under the Loan Agreement by the Company carry
interest at 10 per cent. per annum. Further draw-downs under the
Loan Agreement may be made at the request of the Company and with
the approval of Wraith, in order to meet the working capital needs
of the Company prior to Completion.
12. New Articles
The Board considers it appropriate that the Company should adopt
new articles of association to reflect certain updated statutory
references and updated references to regulatory bodies that may
have changed since the Company's existing articles of association
were adopted. The New Articles are broadly similar to the Existing
Articles but contain additional provisions relating to the
conversion of Ordinary Shares into stock, in the event that the
Company should resolve to do so in the future, and additionally
permit the Shareholders to remove directors by ordinary resolution,
rather than by special resolution.
A copy of the New Articles showing the changes to the Existing
Articles has been posted to Shareholders along with this Circular
and can be also found at www.moneyswapholdings.com.
13. Extraordinary General Meeting
The issue of the Subscription Shares is conditional on, inter
alia, the passing of the Resolutions at the Extraordinary General
Meeting. In the event that the Resolutions are not approved at the
Extraordinary General Meeting, the Subscription will not proceed.
If the Subscription does not proceed the Proposals will not
complete.
Set out at the end of this Circular you will find a notice
convening the Extraordinary General Meeting, to be held on 20 April
2017 at 10.00 a.m. at the offices of Allenby Capital Limited at 3
St Helen's Place, London EC3A 6AB, for the purpose of considering
and, if thought fit, passing the following Resolutions:
Ordinary Resolutions
1. to receive and approve the audited consolidated financial
statements for the year ended 31 March 2016;
2. to approve the Subscription;
3. to approve the waiver of the Management Options;
4. to grant the directors the authority to allot:
(i) the Subscription Shares;
(ii) the Fee Conversion Shares;
(iii) 119,776,000 additional Ordinary Shares under a general
authority; and
Special Resolution
5. to adopt the New Articles.
14. Action to be taken
Shareholders will find enclosed with the document a Form of
Proxy and a Form of Direction (for use in the event that any
Shareholder is a Depositary Interest Holder on the date of the
Extraordinary General Meeting), in each case for use in connection
with the Extraordinary General Meeting. Whether or not you intend
to be present at the Extraordinary General Meeting, you are
requested to complete and sign:
(a) in the case of Shareholders, the Form of Proxy, which should
be returned to Prime Secretaries, Prime Management Limited, 13/15
Giro's Passage, Gibraltar, GX11 1AA as soon as possible and, in any
event, so as to arrive no later than 10.00 a.m. on 18 April 2017;
and
(b) in the case of Depositary Interest Holders, the Form of
Direction, which should be returned to Capita Asset Services, PXS,
34 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 4TU as soon as possible and,
in any event, so as to arrive no later than 10.00 a.m. on 17 April
2017.
If the Form of Proxy or Form of Direction is not received by the
dates and times set out above, it will be rendered void. The
completion and return of a Form of Proxy will not preclude you from
attending the Extraordinary General Meeting and voting in person if
you so wish. Depositary Interest Holders wishing to attend the EGM
should contact the Depositary as per the instructions on the Form
of Direction. Depositary Interests may be voted through the CREST
Proxy Voting Service in accordance with the procedures set out in
the CREST manual. The CREST message should be received not later
than 10.00 a.m. on 17 April 2017.
15. Irrevocable undertakings
The Company has received indications from Shareholders,
including the Directors, representing, in aggregate, approximately
77.44 per cent. of the Existing Ordinary Shares to vote in favour
of the Resolutions.
16. Recommendation
Having spent a significant amount of time seeking additional
funding, the Board believes that the Subscription is the only
option available to the Company at the current time that will
provide the Company with sufficient working capital to continue as
a going concern. Should the Resolutions not be passed at the
Extraordinary General Meeting, the Board considers there to be a
significant chance that the Directors would need to take actions to
protect the interest of creditors, which may result in the ultimate
winding up of the Company. Accordingly, the Directors unanimously
recommend that Shareholders vote in favour of the Resolutions to be
proposed at the Extraordinary General Meeting as they intend to do
in respect of their own holdings of Ordinary Shares.
Yours sincerely,
Craig Niven
Chairman and Interim Chief Executive
DEFINITIONS
The following definitions apply throughout this document, unless
the context requires otherwise:
Admission admission of the Initial Subscription
Shares to trading on AIM, such
admission becoming effective
in accordance with the AIM
Rules;
AIM AIM, a market operated by the
London Stock Exchange;
AIM Rules for Companies the rules of AIM as set out
or AIM Rules in the publication entitled
AIM Rules for Companies published
by the London Stock Exchange
from time to time;
Allenby Capital Allenby Capital Limited, the
Company's nominated adviser
and broker for the purposes
of the AIM Rules;
Board the board of directors of the
Company from time to time;
Board Changes the proposed resignation of
the Current Director from the
Board, and the appointment
of the Proposed Directors to
the Board, further details
of which are set out in paragraph
6 of the letter from the Chairman
of the Company;
certificated or in the description of a share
certificated form or other security which is
not in uncertificated form
(that is not in CREST);
Circular or this document this document dated 28 March
2017;
Company or MoneySwap MoneySwap plc, a company incorporated
in Gibraltar with registered
number 96229 and whose registered
office is 13/15 Giro's Passage,
Gibraltar;
Completion completion of the issue of
the Initial Subscription Shares
to Wraith, pursuant to the
Subscription Agreement between
MoneySwap and Wraith;
Conditions the conditions to the Initial
Subscription occurring in accordance
with the Subscription Agreement,
being in summary that: (i)
the financial statements of
the Company for the financial
year ended 31 March 2016 have
been duly audited on an unqualified
basis (but modified as to an
emphasis of matter); (ii) the
Ordinary Shares are restored
to trading and continue to
be admitted to trading on AIM,
and Allenby Capital continues
to be engaged as the Company's
nominated adviser; (iii) the
FCA has provided a letter of
no objection to the changes
of qualifying holding in the
Company; (iv) the Resolutions
have been passed; (v) there
has been no breach of certain
of the warranties contained
in the Subscription Agreement;
and (vi) there has been no
material adverse change in
any major financial market
in the US, the UK, Hong Kong
or the EU;
CREST the relevant system (as defined
in the CREST Regulations) in
respect of which Euroclear
is the Operator (as defined
in the CREST Regulations);
Current Director Emma Xu, a Director of the
Company;
Depositary Capita IRG Trustees Limited,
The Registry, 34 Beckenham
Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 4TU;
Depositary Interests the depositary interests in
or DIs uncertificated form representing
Ordinary Shares;
Directors the directors of the Company
at the date of this document,
as set out on page 10 of this
document;
Enlarged Share Capital the Company's issued share
capital as enlarged by the
issue of the Initial Subscription
Shares;
EU the European Union;
Euroclear Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited;
Existing Articles the Company's articles of association,
in effect as at the date of
this document;
Existing Options the share options granted by
the Company prior to the date
of this Circular to any person
other than pursuant to: (i)
the Subscription; (ii) the
Fee Conversion Options; and
(iii) the Management Options
to be waived;
Existing Ordinary Shares the 1,197,755,282 Ordinary
Shares in issue as at the date
of this document, having a
nominal value of GBP0.001 per
Existing Ordinary Share;
Extraordinary General the extraordinary general meeting
Meeting or EGM of the Company, notice of which
is set out at the end of this
Circular, and including any
adjournment(s) thereof;
FCA the UK's Financial Conduct
Authority;
Fee Conversion Exercise an amount equal to the aggregate
Price outstanding fees currently
owed by the Group to each of
the Current Director, the Former
Director and the Substantial
Shareholder, respectively,
such that upon the exercise
of the Fee Conversion Options
by each individual, the amount
of the fees owed to the relevant
individual by the Group will
be set-off against the relevant
individual's obligation to
pay the subscription price
for the Fee Conversion Shares;
Fee Conversion Options a proposed option to be granted
to each of the Current Director,
the Former Director and the
Substantial Shareholder to
subscribe for the Fee Conversion
Shares at the Fee Conversion
Exercise Price (further details
of which are set out in paragraph
7 of this document below);
Fee Conversion Option the Current Director, the Former
Holders Director and the Substantial
Shareholder;
Fee Conversion Shares the 224,634,147 new Ordinary
Shares to be issued at the
Fee Conversion Exercise Price
to the Fee Conversion Option
Holders on exercise of the
Fee Conversion Options;
Form of Direction the form of direction for DI
holders accompanying this document
relating to the Extraordinary
General Meeting;
Form of Proxy the form of proxy accompanying
this document relating to the
Extraordinary General Meeting;
Former Director Kung Min Lin, a former director
of the Company who resigned
on 30 December 2015;
FSMA the UK Financial Services and
Markets Act 2000, as amended;
Fully Diluted Share the aggregate of the then issued
Capital share capital of the Company
and any Ordinary Shares the
subject of any options or rights
to subscribe granted by the
Company which are capable of
exercise from time to time
(including the Existing Options,
the Subscription and the Fee
Conversion Options);
GBP or GBP pound sterling, the legal currency
of the United Kingdom;
Group the Company and its subsidiary
undertakings at the date of
this document;
Increased Share Capital the issued share capital of
the Company as at the date
of exercise of the Subscription
Option as increased to take
into account the Subscription
Option Shares to be issued
pursuant to the Subscription
Option and any other Ordinary
Shares that the Company has
an unconditional obligation
to issue as at that date;
Initial Subscription the issue of the Initial Subscription
Shares at Completion to Wraith
pursuant to the terms of the
Subscription Agreement;
Initial Subscription the 2,443,420,775 new Ordinary
Shares Shares proposed to be issued
to Wraith pursuant to the Initial
Subscription at Completion
(or such higher number of Ordinary
Shares as would entitle Wraith
to hold at least 51 per cent.
of the Enlarged Share Capital
on Completion);
Issue Price GBP0.001 per new Ordinary Share
to be paid by Wraith pursuant
to the Initial Subscription
and the Subscription Option;
Loan Agreement the loan facility dated 6 March
2017 between the Company and
Wraith, further details of
which were announced by the
Company on 6 March 2017;
Lock-in Agreement the lock-in agreement to be
entered into between Wraith,
Allenby Capital and the Company
on Completion, further details
of which are set out in the
Appendix to the Circular;
Lock-in Period the period commencing on the
date of Admission and expiring
on the date falling 12 months
after Admission;
London Stock Exchange the London Stock Exchange Group
plc;
Management Options the existing options granted
to the Management Option Holders
by the Company over 19,666,081
unissued Ordinary Shares pursuant
to (i) certain employee share
option schemes and rights to
subscribe for Ordinary Shares
and (ii) certain employee and
non-executive long-term incentive
plans put in place by the Company;
Management Option Holders the Directors and the Former
Director;
New Articles the proposed new articles of
association of the Company;
Notice of Extraordinary the notice of Extraordinary
General Meeting General Meeting, set out at
the end of this document;
Ordinary Shares the ordinary shares of GBP0.001
each in the capital of the
Company in issue from time
to time;
PRC or China the People's Republic of China;
Proposals the Subscription, the waiver
of the Management Options,
the grant of the Fee Conversion
Options and the adoption of
the New Articles;
Proposed Directors William Morro and Calvin Yan;
Prospectus Rules the Prospectus Rules published
by the FCA;
Registrars Capita Registrars (Guernsey)
Limited, The Registry, Mont
Crevelt House, Bulwer Avenue,
St Sampson, Guernsey GY2 4LH;
Relationship Agreement the agreement to be entered
into on Completion between
the Company, Allenby Capital
and Wraith, details of which
are set out in the Appendix
to the Circular;
Resolutions the resolutions to be proposed
at the Extraordinary General
Meeting, as set out in the
Notice of Extraordinary General
Meeting;
Shareholders holders of Ordinary Shares;
Subscription the conditional subscription
by Wraith for the Subscription
Shares comprising, together,
the Initial Subscription, the
Subscription Option and the
Wraith Further Option, on the
terms of the Subscription Agreement
between Wraith and the Company
and further described in this
document;
Subscription Agreement the agreement dated 20 March
2017 between the Company and
Wraith relating to the Subscription,
as amended by a deed of variation
dated 28 March 2017, details
of which are set out in the
Appendix of the Circular;
Subscription Option the option granted to Wraith
pursuant to the terms of the
Subscription Agreement by which,
if exercised, Wraith has the
right to be issued and allotted
further new Ordinary Shares
at the Issue Price such that
its total shareholding in the
Company may increase to up
to 75 per cent. of the Increased
Share Capital;
Subscription Option the new Ordinary Shares that
Shares may be issued to Wraith pursuant
to the Subscription Option;
Subscription Shares the Initial Subscription Shares,
the Subscription Option Shares
and any new Ordinary Shares
to be issued pursuant to the
Wraith Further Option;
Substantial Shareholder Henry Lin, a substantial shareholder
(under the definition of the
AIM Rules) of the Company's
Existing Ordinary Shares and
the brother of the Former Director;
Suspension the suspension of the Ordinary
Shares from trading on AIM
in accordance with the AIM
Rules;
uncertificated shares recorded on a register
of securities maintained by
Euroclear in accordance with
the CREST Regulations as being
in uncertificated form in CREST
and title to which, by virtue
of the CREST Regulations, may
be transferred by means of
CREST;
UK or United Kingdom the United Kingdom of England,
Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland;
US$ or $ US dollars, the legal currency
of the United States;
Wraith Wraith Holding B.V., a company
incorporated in the Netherlands
with Company number 67229581
and whose registered address
is Startbaan 8, 1185 XR, Amstelveen,
the Netherlands; and
Wraith Further Option the option granted to Wraith
pursuant to the terms of the
Subscription Agreement by which
Wraith will have the right,
but not the obligation, from
Completion to 12 August 2021
to subscribe for three times
the number of any new Ordinary
Shares issued to any other
person, with that option being
exercisable at the Issue Price
for each Ordinary Share.
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