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Minds + Machines Group Ltd.
Minds + Machines Grp - Completion of Tender Offer and Director Dealing
7th February 2022, 07:00
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Minds + Machines Group Limited
07 February 2022
 

Minds + Machines Group Limited

("MMX", the "Company" or "Group")

Completion of Tender Offer

and

Exercise of Options/RSUs

 

Further to the announcements of 14 January 2022 and 3 February 2022, Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) is pleased to announce the completion of its Tender Offer.

 

The Company confirms the Tender Offer was fully subscribed and 182,692,308 Ordinary Shares have been purchased at a price of 10.4 pence per Ordinary Share, for aggregate consideration of £19 million. Tenders for up to and including the Tender Offer Entitlement of 1 Ordinary Share for every 1.485 Ordinary Shares were met in full, representing approximately 93.35% of the Ordinary Shares being purchased by the Company. In addition, 16.59832% of shares tendered in excess of a shareholders Basic Entitlement will be purchased, accounting for the remaining 6.65% of the Ordinary Shares being bought back under the Tender Offer, The Ordinary Shares to be purchased under the Tender Offer represent approximately 67.3% of the current Ordinary Shares in issue.

 

All of the 182,692,308 Ordinary Shares bought back have been cancelled by the Company.

 

Total Voting Rights

 

Following completion of the Tender Offer, the total number of exercisable voting rights in the Company is now 88,624,033. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company.

 

Exercise of Options

 

The Company also announces that, following the completion of the Tender Offer, certain Directors of the Company have exercised options over Ordinary Shares ("Options") or restricted stock units ("RSUs") as follows:

 

Director/PDMR

Number of Options

/RSUs exercised

Total cash settlement value of Options/RSUs exercised

Number of remaining Options/RSUs vested and outstanding

Number of remaining Options/RSUs not yet vested and outstanding

% of revised issued share capital held

Tony Farrow

78,778

£ 8,193

29,497

-

0.03%

Bryan Disher

1,037,283

£107,877

388,393

-

0.44%

 

As permitted under the terms of the Minds + Machines Group Limited Restricted Stock Unit Plan and the Minds + Machines Group Limited Amended 2012 Stock Plan, the Company's Remuneration Committee has approved that these Options and RSUs will be settled for cash at the Tender Offer price of 10.4 pence per Ordinary Share. The number of Options and RSUs exercised and settled for cash represent the same pro rata proportion of those Options and RSUs currently vested as all Shareholders received in the Tender Offer.

 

Following settlement of these Options and RSUs, the Company has 2,217,890 Options and RSUs outstanding, representing approximately 2.50% of the Company's revised issued share capital.

 

 

Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalised terms used in this announcement shall have the same meanings as defined in the Circulars to shareholders dated 14 January 2022 and available on the Company's website www.mmx.co.

 

Further Information:

Minds + Machines Group Limited


Tony Farrow (CEO)

Bryan Disher (CFO)

 




finnCap Ltd

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7220 0500

Corporate finance - Stuart Andrews / Carl Holmes / Simon Hicks

Corporate broking - Tim Redfern / Richard Chambers

 


 

 For further information, please go to www.mmx.co 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.

 

1.   

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Tony Farrow

2.   

Reason for the Notification

a)

Position/status

Chief Executive Officer

b)

Initial notification/Amendment

Initial notification

3.   

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Minds + Machines Group Limited

b)

LEI

2138008VAFDJAYYYNP95

4.   

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)

Description of the Financial instrument, type of instrument

RSUs over Ordinary Shares

Identification code

VGG614091012

b)

Nature of the transaction

Exercise of RSUs over Ordinary Shares

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

10.4p

78,778

d)

Aggregated information:

·       Aggregated volume

·       Price

Cash settlement of 78,778 RSUs at a price of 10.4 pence per Ordinary Share

e)

Date of the transaction

7 February 2022

f)

Place of the transaction

Off market transaction

 

1.   

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Bryan Disher

2.   

Reason for the Notification

a)

Position/status

Chief Financial Officer

b)

Initial notification/Amendment

Initial notification

3.   

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Minds + Machines Group Limited

b)

LEI

2138008VAFDJAYYYNP95

4.   

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)

Description of the Financial instrument, type of instrument

Options over Ordinary Shares

Identification code

VGG614091012

b)

Nature of the transaction

Exercise of Options over Ordinary Shares

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

10.4p

1,037,283

d)

Aggregated information:

·       Aggregated volume

·       Price

Cash settlement of Options at a price of 10.4 pence per Ordinary Share

e)

Date of the transaction

7 February 2022

f)

Place of the transaction

Off market transaction

 

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