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St. Peter Port Capital Ltd.
St Peter Port Cap - Disposal of the Company’s Investment Portfolio
6th August 2021, 10:20
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St Peter Port Capital Limited
06 August 2021
 

The information communicated within this announcement is deemed to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014.  Upon the publication of this announcement, this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

 

St Peter Port Capital Limited (the "Company")

 

Disposal of the Company's Investment Portfolio

 

On 15 February 2021 the Board announced an auction process to facilitate the disposal of all the Company's investments.  The Board stated that, following completion of the process, it would seek to return the net cash so realised to shareholders as a return of capital, having made provision for a subsequent orderly liquidation.  It was envisaged that consent would be sought for the appointment of a liquidator and cancellation of the Company's admission to trading on AIM.  On 2 June 2021 the Board updated shareholders on the auction process, including its appointment of an auction agent and the expected timetable.

 

Further to these announcements, the Board has today concluded a sale and purchase agreement with RAB Capital Holdings Limited ("RAB Capital") whereby RAB Capital has acquired the portfolio of investments held by the company for a cash consideration of £2,200,000 (the "Disposal"). The Disposal encompasses all the portfolio save for shares in companies believed by the Board to have become insolvent with nil value. Following the Disposal the only asset of value held by the Company other than the sale proceeds is £103,000 in cash.

 

Individual cash offers were received for various holdings in the portfolio, but the offer by RAB Capital represented the highest cash proceeds net of costs to conclude the sale of the portfolio. The proceeds of £2,200,000 compare with an unaudited book value of the investments being disposed of £9,445,000 as at the last published balance sheet of 30 September 2020 in the Company's interim results. The level of proceeds is therefore at a large discount to this book valuation reflecting the circumstances of the sale. However, the difficulty for the Board was that there was little prospect of a significantly better realisation being achieved in the short to medium term.

 

In particular, the largest holding by book value, Brazil Potash, has had difficulties progressing the necessary major fund-raising to construct its mine whilst Brazil continues to have a serious problem with Covid. Foreign investors and professionals are likely to remain reluctant to or barred from visiting the area until this abates.  The second largest holding by book value, Buried Hill, also awaits a full resolution of its licence position following the accord between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. No holding in the portfolio offered good prospects of uplift in the short to medium term.

 

The schedule of assets being sold is detailed below.

 

The Disposal will enable the Company to liquidate and return its remaining cash to shareholders. It is expected that the Company will return approximately £2,170,000, representing about 3.38 pence per share. The Board intends to publish a circular in due course, tabling resolutions to cancel the Company's shares from trading on AIM and appoint a liquidator to effect a members' voluntary liquidation.

 

For further information:

 

St Peter Port Capital Limited

Lynn Bruce, Director  +44 (0) 1481 724 222

 

Grant Thornton UK LLP (Nominated Adviser)

Philip Secrett               +44 (0) 20 7383 5100

 

Fourth Ventures Limited (auction agent)

Simon Ramery            +447500 873 833

 

Schedule of Assets Being Sold

 

(1)

Name of Company or Borrower (as applicable) and Registered Office Address

(2)

Asset Class

(3)

Number of Shares / Number of Warrants / Principal Amount of Loan Outstanding (as applicable)

Brazil Potash Corp.

Shares

2,934,181

Buried Hill Energy (Cyprus) Plc

Shares

2,314,667

iQur Limited

Shares

165,942

SeeCubic Inc

Shares

1,066,246

SeeCubic Inc

Warrants

29,167

Red Flat Nickel Corp.

Loan / USD

USD 26,310,000

SeeCubic Inc

Loan notes / USD

USD 35,000

Celadon Mining Limited

Shares

11,055,555

EastSiberian PLC

Shares (suspended)

415,000

International Goldfields Ltd.

Shares (suspended)

14,727,623

Kerogen Shale Limited

Shares

117,291

MinCore Inc

Shares

7,540,000

Nusantara Energy Limited

Shares

862,488

Royal Coal Corp.

Shares (suspended)

4,000,000

St Peter Port Capital (RFN) Limited

3rd Floor, 1 Le Truchot, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 1WD

Shares

100% interest being sold

Holder of an 80% shareholding interest in Red Flat Nickel Corporation

TMO Renewables

Shares (in creditors' voluntary liquidation

3,598,125

Union Minerals Group

Shares

1,000,000

StreamTV Inc

Shares

1,007,913

 

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