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finnCap Group PLC

01 September 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

1 September 2023

finnCap Group plc

("finnCap" or the "Company")

BOARD CHANGES TO TAKE PLACE FOLLOWING SCHEME BECOMING EFFECTIVE AND COMPANY NAME CHANGE

ADMISSION OF NEW ORDINARY SHARES

On 23 March 2023, the board of finnCap Group plc ("finnCap" or the "Company") and the board of Cenkos Securities plc ("Cenkos") announced that they had reached agreement on the terms and conditions of a recommended all-share merger between Cenkos and finnCap (the "Merger"), to be effected by means of a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Scheme").

Further to the scheme document published by Cenkos (the "Scheme Document") and the circular published by the Company (the "finnCap Circular"), which were both published on 20 April 2023 in connection with the Scheme, the Company Board are pleased to confirm, subject in each case to the Effective Date occurring, the membership of the Combined Group Board and announce a proposed company name change.

Unless otherwise defined, all capitalised terms in this announcement shall have the meanings given to them in the Scheme Document.

Board Changes

As previously announced in the Scheme Document and finnCap Circular, the Combined Group will be led by the existing CEOs of Cenkos and finnCap, John Farrugia and Julian Morse as co-CEOs, with Lisa Gordon becoming Chair of the Combined Group Board and Robert Lister becoming Senior Independent Non-executive Director. The remainder of the Combined Group Board will comprise Ben Procter (CFO), Richard Snow (COO), Annette Andrews and Jeremy Miller.

Consequently, the finnCap Board has resolved to appoint, with effect from and conditional upon the Effective Date occurring, Lisa Gordon, Julian Morse, Ben Procter and Jeremy Miller as directors of the Company. Further information on the new directors can be found below.

Further, with effect from and conditional upon the Effective Date occurring, Andy Hogarth, Geoff Nash and Barbara Anne Firth will resign from the finnCap Board.

The finnCap Board would like to thank Barbara, Andy and Geoff for the significant contribution that they have each made during their time on the Board.

Name Change

Following the Effective Date finnCap intends to apply to Companies House to change the Company's name to Cavendish Financial plc (the "Name Change"). Following the Name Change becoming effective, the Combined Group will be known as Cavendish and the Company will adopt "CAV" as a new stock ticker. A further announcement will be made when the name change becomes effective; until such time, trading will continue under the "FCAP" stock ticker.

Admission of New Ordinary Shares

Pursuant to the Merger, application has been made for up to 181,094,843 New finnCap Shares of 1 penny each ("Ordinary Shares") to be admitted to trading on AIM and it is expected that the New finnCap Shares will be admitted to trading on 8 September 2023.

For information, please contact:

 
 finnCap                                                Tel: +44 (0)20 7220 
  John Farrugia, Chief Executive Officer                               0500 
  Richard Snow, Chief Financial Officer      investor.relations@finncap.com 
  Henrik Persson, Strategic PLC Advisory 
 Grant Thornton (Nominated Adviser to                   Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 
  finnCap)                                                             5100 
  Philip Secrett/Samantha Harrison/Samuel 
  Littler 
 Oberon Capital (Joint Broker to finnCap)               Tel: +44 (0)20 3179 
  Mike Seabrook                                                        5344 
 finnCap Ltd (Joint Broker to finnCap)                  Tel: +44 (0)20 7220 
  Tim Redfern                                                          0500 
 Hudson Sandler (PR Adviser to finnCap)             Tel: +44 (0)7977 927142 
  Dan de Belder                                     Tel: +44 (0)7702 596674 
  Rebekah Chapman 
 
 

Other

All references to times in this announcement are to London time, unless otherwise stated.

Disclosure requirements of the AIM Rules for Companies

The following information is disclosed pursuant to Rule 17 and paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules for Companies.

Lisa Gordon

Lisa Jane Gordon (aged 57) is, or has been, a director or partner of the following companies during the previous five years:

 
 Current Directorships / Partnerships   Previous Directorships / Partnerships 
                                         from the last 5 years 
 
   Alpha Group International Plc          Albert Technologies Ltd 
   Cenkos Securities plc                  BBO Recruitment Limited 
   JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment            Carno Capital Limited 
   Trust plc                              M&C Saatchi plc 
   Magic Light Pictures Limited 
 

As at 1 September 2023, Lisa Gordon held no interest in the capital of the Company. However, as a result of the receipt by her of new finnCap ordinary shares in exchange for her existing holding in Cenkos as a consequence of the Merger, she is expected to hold beneficially 319,420 ordinary shares of GBP0.01 each in the capital of the Combined Group, representing 0.09%.

Julian Morse

Julian Jonathan Morse (aged 52) is, or has been, a director or partner of the following companies during the previous five years:

 
 Current Directorships / Partnerships   Previous Directorships / Partnerships 
                                         from the last 5 years 
 
   Cenkos Securities plc                  None 
 

As at 1 September 2023, Julian Morse held no interest in the capital of the Company. However, as a result of the receipt by him of new finnCap ordinary shares in exchange for his existing holding in Cenkos as a consequence of the Merger, he is expected to hold beneficially 4,479,043 ordinary shares of GBP0.01 each in the capital of the Combined Group, representing 1.24%.

Jeremy Miller

Jeremy Ronald St John Miller (aged 64) is, or has been, a director or partner of the following companies during the previous five years:

 
 Current Directorships / Partnerships   Previous Directorships / Partnerships 
                                         from the last 5 years 
 
   Cenkos Securities plc                  Bio-Bean Limited 
   CPPGroup plc 
   Inside Track 1 llp 
   Inside Track 2 llp 
   This Land Limited 
 

As at 1 September 2023, Jeremy Miller held no interest in the capital of the Company. However, as a result of the receipt by him of new finnCap ordinary shares in exchange for his existing holding in Cenkos as a consequence of the Merger, he is expected to hold beneficially 175,681 ordinary shares of GBP0.01 each in the capital of the Combined Group, representing 0.05%.

Ben Procter

Ben Procter (aged 52) is, or has been, a director or partner of the following companies during the previous five years:

 
 Current Directorships / Partnerships   Previous Directorships / Partnerships 
                                         from the last 5 years 
 
 Cenkos Securities plc                  None 
 

As at 1 September 2023, Ben Procter held no interest in the capital of the Company. He will hold no interest in the capital of the Combined Group as a consequence of the Merger.

Save as disclosed above, there is no further information required to be disclosed in respect of Lisa Gordon, Julian Morse, Jeremy Miller, or Ben Procter pursuant to Schedule 2, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

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