VGP Rights Offering: Start of Private Placement of Scrips –
Suspension of trading until publication of results of the Offering
PRESS RELEASE
REGULATED
INFORMATION –
INSIDE INFORMATION25 November
2022, Antwerp, Belgium – 10h30 a.m.
VGP rights offering (with non-statutory
preferential rights for existing shareholders) of a
maximum of 5,458,262
new shares,
amounting to a maximum of
EUR 302,933,541
94.43% of the New
Shares subscribed at closing of
the rights Subscription
Period for holders of
Preferential Rights
Start of Private Placement of Scrips on
25 November 2022
– Suspension of trading until publication of results of the
Offering1
An Investment in the New Shares involves
substantial risks and uncertainties. Prospective investors must be
able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the New Shares,
the Preferential Rights or the Scrips and should be able to sustain
a partial or total loss of their investment. Before making any
investment decision, the investors must read the prospectus,
approved by the FSMA on 15 November 2022 and available on the
website (www.vgpparks.eu), in its entirety (and, in particular, the
section on Risk factors starting on page 9). Investors should in
particular note that the Issuer’s solvability and liquidity depends
on the sustainability of its development activities, its ability to
execute new lease agreements and its sales cycles of completed
projects to the Second Joint Venture and the Fourth Joint Venture,
taking into account the postponement of the first closing with the
Fourth Joint Venture.
During the Subscription Period with Preferential
Rights, which closed on 24 November 2022 (16:00 CET), 5,153,976 New
Shares, or 94.43% of the maximum number of New Shares offered for
subscription, have been subscribed for at a subscription price of
EUR 55.50 per New Share, on the basis of 1 New Share for 4
Preferential Rights.
The 1,217,146 unexercised Preferential Rights
have automatically been converted into an equal number of Scrips.
These Scrips will be be sold in a private placement with qualified
investors in Belgium and by way of a private placement exempt from
prospectus requirements or similar formalities in such other
jurisdictions as will be determined by the Issuer in consultation
with the Global Coordinators. The Scrips Private Placement will be
conducted in reliance on Regulation S under the United States
Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The Scrips Private Placement
will be organised by way of an accelerated book-building procedure,
in order to determine a single market price per Scrip. The Private
Placement of Scrips will take place as from the publication of this
press release and is expected to end on the same day. Investors who
acquire Scrips enter into an irrevocable commitment to exercise the
Scrips and thus to subscribe for the corresponding number of New
Shares at the Issue Price and in accordance with the Ratio, i.e., 1
New Share (at EUR 55.50 per New Share) for 4 Preferential Rights in
the form of Scrips.
The net proceeds from the sale of Scrips
(rounded down to a whole eurocent per unexercised Preferential
Right) after deducting expenses, charges and all forms of
expenditure which the Issuer has to incur for the sale of the
Scrips (the “Net Scrips Proceeds”), if any, will be distributed
proportionally between all holders of unexercised Preferential
Rights and will be paid to the holders of such unexercised
Preferential Rights upon presentation of coupon n° 11, as from 30
November 2022. If the Net Scrips Proceeds are less than EUR 0.01
per unexercised Preferential Right, the holders of such unexercised
Preferential Rights are not entitled to receive any payment and,
instead, the Net Scrips Proceeds will be transferred to the
Issuer.
The results of the subscriptions for New Shares
resulting from the exercise of the Scrips and the Net Scrips
Proceeds due to the holders of unexercised Preferential Rights,
will be published in a press release on the Company’s website, in
principle later today, 25 November 2022.
The payment and delivery of the New Shares is
expected to be carried out with a value date as per 29 November
2022 and the subscribers’ account will be debited on the same date
(subject to the relevant financial intermediary procedures) (except
for subscriptions with Preferential Rights attached to registered
Existing Shares, for which the payment had to reach the Company by
24 November 2022 at 16:00 CET).
The New Shares will in principle be tradable on
the regulated market of Euronext Brussels as from 29 November
2022.
The trading of the shares of the Company on the
regulated market of Euronext Brussels was, at the Company’s
request, suspended as from the opening of the markets earlier
today, 25 November 2022, until the publication of the press release
relating to the results of the Offering (after completion of the
Private Placement of Scrips).
Any decision to invest in securities in the
framework of the Offering must be based on all information provided
in the Prospectus, and any supplements thereto, as the case may be.
The approval of the Prospectus by the FSMA should not be understood
as an endorsement of the new shares offered.
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Belfius Bank NV in cooperation with Kepler
Cheuvreux S.A., BNP Paribas Fortis SA/NV, J.P. Morgan SE and KBC
Securities NV are actingas Joint Global Coordinators in this
transaction.
About VGP
VGP is a pan-European owner, manager and
developer of high-quality logistics and semi-industrial real
estate. VGP operates a fully integrated business model with
capabilities and longstanding expertise across the value chain.
Founded in 1998 as a Belgian family-owned real estate developer in
the Czech Republic, VGP with a staff of circa 380 FTEs today and
operates in 19 European countries directly and through several
50:50 joint ventures. As of June 2022, the Gross Asset Value of
VGP, including the joint ventures at 100%, amounted to EUR 6.53
billion. VGP is listed on Euronext Brussels. (ISIN:
BE0003878957).
For more information, please visit: http://www.vgpparks.eu
Contact details
for investors
and media
enquiries
Martijn Vlutters(VP – Business Development & Investor
Relations)
Tel: +32 (0)3 289 1433
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