21 November 2024
Blackstone Loan Financing Limited
(the
"Company")
Compulsory Partial Redemption of Shares
Further to the approval given by the
Company's shareholders to enable compulsory redemptions of the
Company's ordinary shares ("Shares"), as described in the circular
dated 25 August 2023 (the "Circular"), the Company today announces
that it will return approximately €61,000,000 by way of a
compulsory partial redemption of up to 68,004,459 Shares (the
"Second Redemption") on 19
December 2024 (the "Redemption
Date"). Approximately 16.2706% of the existing Shares will
be redeemed.
The Second Redemption will be
effected at €0.8970 per Share, being the NAV per Share as at 31
October 2024. The Second Redemption will be effected pro-rata to
holdings of such shares on the register at close of business on 29
November 2024 ("Redemption Record
Time"). As at today's date, the Company has 417,959,768
Shares in issue, of which none are held in treasury.
On this basis, a holder of 10,000
Shares will have 1,627 Shares redeemed, and receive €1,459.41 in
cash.
Fractions of Shares will not be
redeemed and so the number of Shares held by each shareholder to be
redeemed compulsorily on the Redemption Date will be rounded down
to the nearest whole number of Shares.
The amount to be applied to the
partial redemption of Shares comprises monies from the Company's
existing cash balances.
All Shares that are redeemed will be
cancelled with effect from the Redemption Date. Accordingly, once
redeemed, such Shares will be incapable of transfer.
The Shares will be disabled in CREST
after close of business on the Redemption Date and the existing
ISIN number JE00BSMSML25 (the "Old
ISIN") will expire.
The new ISIN number JE00BM8J7D47
(the "New ISIN") in respect of the remaining Shares, which have not
been redeemed and will be in issue and listed following the
Redemption Date and will be enabled and available for transactions
from and including 02 December 2024.
Up to and including the Redemption
Date, the Shares will continue to be traded under the Old ISIN and
as such, a purchaser of such Shares who was not on the register as
at the Redemption Record Time would have a market claim for a
proportion of the redemption proceeds. CREST will automatically
transform any open transactions as at the Redemption Date into the
New ISIN.
Shareholders should note that the
Board retains absolute discretion as to the execution, extent and
timing of any further redemptions.
Expected timetable for
redemption
The anticipated dates and sequence
of events relating to the implementation of the Proposals are set
out below:
Latest time to submit currency
election form for the
Second Redemption
|
1.00 p.m. on 29 November
2024
|
Second Redemption Record
Date
|
6:00 p.m. on 29 November
2024
|
Second Redemption Date and expiry of
Old ISIN number
|
29 November 2024
|
Second Redemption Ex Date
|
02 December 2024
|
New ISIN number enabled
JE00BM8J7D47
|
02 December 2024
|
Redemption monies paid to
uncertificated holdings and certificated holdings
|
19 December 2024
|
Currency Election
Redemption monies will be paid in Euros. If any
certificated or uncertificated Shareholder wishes to receive
redemption monies in Sterling, they must complete a redemption
currency election form and return it either by email to
operationalsupportteam@linkgroup.co.uk
or by post to Link Group, Corporate Actions,
Central Square, 29 Wellington Street Leeds, LS1 4DL no later than
1.00 p.m. on 29 November 2024. A copy of this form is available on
the Company's website at
https://www.blackstone.com/fund/bglfln-blackstone-loan-financing-limited/#investor-documents.
Please note that if you have
previously advised the Registrar, Link Group, that you wish to
receive your dividends in Sterling, you will need to advise them
separately if you also wish to receive your redemption monies in
Sterling.
Please note that, unlike dividend
currency elections, Shareholders cannot elect to switch the
currency in which they receive proceeds of the Redemption through
the CREST platform. Any redemption currency election forms
submitted shall relate only to the proceeds of the current
Redemption and will not endure.
Capitalised terms used but not
defined in this announcement will have the same meaning as set out
in the Circular.
Enquiries:
Blackstone
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via BNP Paribas
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BNP Paribas
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01534 709189 / 709108
|
Singer Capital Markets
James Maxwell / Alaina Wong
(Corporate Finance)
Alan Geeves / Sam Greatrex
(Sales)
|
020 7496 3000
|
Winterflood Investment Trusts
Neil Langford (Corporate
Finance)
Darren Willis (Sales)
|
020 3100 0000
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