REG - IP Group PLC - Capital Raising <Origin Href="QuoteRef">IPO.L</Origin> <Origin Href="QuoteRef">PRU.L</Origin> - Part 2

IPAnnouncement

10/03/2015 07:15

- Part 2: For the preceding part double click  ID:nRSJ9742Ga 

                                                                                                                                                            
 Excluded Territory or Excluded Territories       Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of South Africa and the United States                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 Existing Shares                                  the Shares in issue as at the date of this document                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
 Financial Conduct Authority or FCA Firm Placees  the Financial Conduct Authority of the United Kingdom  any persons who have agreed to subscribe for Firm Placed Shares pursuant to the Firm Placing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
 Firm Placed Shares                               the 51,111,111 new Shares to be allotted and issued by the Company pursuant to the Firm Placing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
 Firm Placing                                     the conditional placing by Numis, on behalf of the Company, of the Firm Placed Shares pursuant to the Placing Agreement                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 Form of Proxy                                    the form of proxy accompanying the prospectus for use by Shareholders in relation to the General Meeting                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
 FSMA                                             the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 General Meeting or IP Group General Meeting      the general meeting of IP Group to be held at 10.00am on 26 March 2015, notice of which will be set out in the Prospectus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 IAS                                              International Accounting Standards                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
 IP                                               means any and all patents, trade marks, rights in designs, get-up trade, business or domain names, copyrights, and topography rights, (whether registered or not and any applications to register or rights to apply for registration of any of the foregoing), rights in inventions, know-how, trade secrets and other confidential information, rights in databases and all other intellectual property rights of a similar or corresponding character which may now or in the  
                                                  future subsist in any part of the world                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 Issue                                            the issue of Capital Raising Shares pursuant to the Capital Raising                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
 Issue Price                                      225 pence per New Share                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 Listing Rules                                    the listing rules made by the FCA under Part VI of FSMA, asamended from time to time                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 London Stock Exchange                            London Stock Exchange plc                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 Non-Firm Placees                                 any persons who have agreed or shall agree to subscribe for Placing Shares pursuant to the Placing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
 Notice of General Meeting                        the notice of the General Meeting contained in Part VIII of the Prospectus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
 Numis                                            Numis Securities Limited of The London Stock Exchange Building, 10 Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7LT, acting as sponsor, financial adviser, underwriter and broker                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 Official List                                    the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority pursuant to Part VI of FSMA                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
 Open Offer                                       the offer to Qualifying Shareholders, constituting an invitation to apply for the Open Offer Shares, including pursuant to the Excess Application Facility, on the terms and subject to the conditions set out in the Prospectus and in the case of Qualifying Non-CREST Shareholders, in the Application Form                                                                                                                                                                    
 Open Offer Entitlement                           the pro rata entitlement of Qualifying Shareholders on the Record Date to apply for Open Offer Shares pursuant to the Open Offer                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
 Open Offer Shares                                the 5,777,777 Capital Raising Shares to be offered to Qualifying Shareholders under the Open Offer                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
 Placed Shares                                    the Firm Placed Shares and those Placing Shares allotted by the Company to Non-Firm Placees pursuant to the Placing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
 Placees                                          the Firm Placees and the Non-Firm Placees                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 Placing                                          the conditional subscription by the Non-Firm Placees for thePlacing Shares which is subject to clawback to satisfy validapplications from Qualifying Shareholders under the Open Offer and the Excess Application Facility                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
 Placing Agreement                                the placing agreement dated 10 March 2015 between (1) IP Group and (2) Numis, further details of which are set out in the Prospectus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 Placing Shares                                   the new Shares to be allotted and issued by the Company to Non-Firm Placees pursuant to the Placing as the same may be increased or decreased at the discretion of the Directors as set out in the Prospectus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
 Pounds Sterling or £                             the lawful currency of the United Kingdom                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 Prospectus                                       the document to be dated 10 March 2015 comprising a combined prospectus and notice of general meeting                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 Prospectus Rules                                 the Prospectus Rules of the UK Listing Authority made in accordance with Section 73A of FSMA, as amended from time to time                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
 Qualifying CREST Shareholders                    Qualifying Shareholders holding Shares in uncertificated form in CREST                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
 Qualifying Non-CREST Shareholders                Qualifying Shareholders holding Shares in certificated form                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 Qualifying Shareholders                          Shareholders on the register of members of the Company at the Record Date with the exclusion (subject to certain exceptions) of persons with a registered address or located or resident in the US or an Excluded Territory                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 Record Date                                      5.00 p.m. on 9 March 2015                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 Regulatory Information Service                   one of the regulatory information services authorised by the UK Listing Authority to receive, process and disseminate regulatory information in respect of listed companies                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 Resolutions                                      the resolutions to be proposed at the General Meeting (to be set out in the Notice of General Meeting) being (1) an ordinary resolution to approve the Capital Raising, (2) an ordinary resolution to authorise the Directors to allot Capital Raising Shares pursuant to the Capital Raising and (3) a special resolution to disapply statutory pre-emption rights in relation to the allotment of equity securities pursuant to t