Board of Directors of Digia Plc Decided on an Approximately EUR 12.5 Million Rights Offering

Board of Directors of Digia Plc Decided on an Approximately EUR 12.5 Million Rights Offering

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Digia Plc
Stock Exchange Release
31 May 2017 at 9:00

Board of Directors of Digia Plc Decided on an Approximately EUR 12.5 Million Rights Offering

Rights Offering in Brief

  • Digia Plc ("Digia" or the "Company") is offering its shareholders a maximum of 5,948,078 new shares (the "Offer Shares") in proportion to their holding of existing shares in the Company at a subscription price of EUR 2,10 per each Offer Share (the "Offering").

  • Digia intends to use the net proceeds of approximately EUR 12.05 million received from the Offering in accordance with its strategy for prospective acquisitions, to support the growth of the Company`s current business operations, to strengthen the Company`s capital structure and for the Company`s general financing needs.

  • The Company grants each of its shareholders one (1) subscription right (the "Subscription Right") for every share they own on the record date of the Offering on 2 June 2017 (the "Record Date"). Seven (7) Subscription Rights will entitle their holder to subscribe for two (2) Offer Shares. The Company`s shares will trade ex-rights as from 1 June 2017.

  • The subscription period of the Offering begins on 7 June 2017 and ends on 21 June 2017.

  • Trading in Subscription Rights begins on 7 June 2017 and ends on 15 June 2017.

  • Digia`s two largest shareholders, Ingman Development Oy Ab ("Ingman") and Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company ("Ilmarinen"), as well as Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company ("Varma"), which jointly represent a total of approximately 40.8 percent of the total number of shares and voting rights in the Company, which represents a total of approximately 40.9 percent of the total number of outstanding shares and voting rights, have irrevocably undertaken to subscribe for Offer Shares to be issued in the Offering in proportion to their current holdings in the Company. Varma`s undertaking is binding insofar as its shareholding does not exceed 4.90 percent of the total number of existing shares and voting rights in the Company as a result of the Offering.

General

The Board of Directors of Digia has today decided on an approximately EUR 12.5 million Offering in accordance with the shareholders` pre-emptive subscription right based on authorization granted by the Annual General Meeting on 16 March 2017.