UK Mortgages Ltd: Oat Hill 1 Refinancing and Securitisation
Announcement
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8th July 2020
UK MORTGAGES LIMITED
(a closed-ended investment company incorporated in Guernsey with
registration number 60440)
LEI
549300388LT7VTHCIT59
Refinancing of Oat Hill No.1 and Forthcoming Fifth
Securitisation for UKML
The Board of UK Mortgages Limited (“UKML”, or the “Company”) and
TwentyFour Asset Management LLP (“TwentyFour”) are pleased to
announce that yesterday, Tuesday 7th July 2020, UK Mortgages Corporate Funding
Designated Activity Company (“UK DAC”) signed an agreement with
Santander Corporate and Investment Banking (“Santander”) providing
a senior backstop facility to enable UK DAC to issue a call notice
to redeem the outstanding notes of the Oat Hill No.1 transaction.
That call notice was issued shortly before the close of business
yesterday and the notes will be redeemed on the next interest
payment date in August 2020.
As shareholders will be aware, this transaction was originally
intended to be refinanced on the first optional redemption date and
previous interest payment date in May, but the Company was unable
to complete the refinancing at that time due to the ongoing
disruption from Covid-19. Yesterday’s agreement now allows that to
take place at the first subsequent opportunity.
Furthermore, whilst securitisation spreads have not yet
recovered to the levels seen in February, prior to the Covid-19
outbreak, they have retraced to such an extent that a full
securitisation is now possible and therefore the Company and
TwentyFour are also pleased to announce that Oat Hill No.2, a
public securitisation refinancing the Oat Hill No.1 portfolio has
been mandated to Santander as Sole Arranger and Santander, along
with BofA Securities and Standard Chartered Bank as Joint Lead
Managers and has been announced this morning. Meetings are being
offered to potential securitisation investors from today and a
transaction is expected to follow, subject to market
conditions.
Once completed this transaction will allow the company to return
to its strategy as previously stated in February including using
excess capital to enable share buybacks whilst the Company’s share
price continues to trade at a discount to the NAV.
An update will be provided to shareholders once the transaction
has progressed.
TwentyFour Asset Management LLP
Rob Ford
Silvia Piva
020 7015 8900
Numis Securities Limited, Corporate Broker
Nathan Brown
Hugh Jonathan
020 7260 1000
Important notice
This announcement has been prepared for information purposes
only, it is not a prospectus.
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announcement comes are required by the UKML, TwentyFour and Numis
to inform themselves about, and to observe, such restrictions.
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New Shares in UKML are reminded that any such acquisition must be
made only on the basis of the information contained in the
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invitation to purchase, investments of any description, nor as a
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evaluating any investment opportunity. In particular, an
investment in UKML involves a high degree of risk and prospective
investors should read the section in the Prospectus entitled "Risk
Factors" for further information.