REG - Real Est Crd InvsLtd - Share Buyback Programme

Real Estate Credit InvestmentsAnnouncement

31/08/2023 07:00

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RNS Number : 8247K  Real Estate Credit Investments Ltd  31 August 2023

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prepared by, and is the sole responsibility of, Real Estate Credit Investments
Limited. This announcement has been released by Lucy McDowall of Aztec
Financial Services (Guernsey) Limited, Secretary of the Company.

31 August 2023

Real Estate Credit Investments Limited

Share Buyback Programme

The Board of Directors of Real Estate Credit Investments Limited ("RECI" or
the "Company") announces that it intends to commence a share buyback programme
(the "Programme").

The Board consistently maintains its practice of considering all options when
assessing the levels of cash to be retained or deployed by the Company from
time to time and how any such cash available for deployment should be
allocated. Excess cash is regarded as the cash available following recognition
of the obligation to ensure sufficient cash resources to pay, inter alia, the
Company's expenses, borrowings, dividends and fund its ongoing contractual
loan commitments, from time to time ("Available Cash"). In the current
circumstances, the Board has chosen to make an allocation of Available Cash
available to finance the Programme alongside potential reinvestment into new
enhanced return investment opportunities as and when appropriate.

The Programme will extend from today's date for the period up to the end of
the Company's current financial year on 31 March 2024. The aggregate purchase
price of all shares acquired under the Programme will be no greater than £5.0
million.

The Programme will occur within the limitations of RECI's existing general
authority to purchase no more than 34,376,938 ordinary shares of no par value
each ("Ordinary Shares") as granted by shareholders at the Company's annual
general meeting held on 15 September 2022 (with such authority to be renewed
at the forthcoming annual general meeting). The purpose of the Programme is to
reduce the total issued share capital of the Company.

The Company has appointed Liberum Capital Limited ("Liberum") to make market
purchases of Ordinary Shares in respect of the Programme. Liberum will
purchase the Ordinary Shares as principal (and not as agent) and sell them on
to the Company. The Company intends that any Ordinary Shares purchased by the
Company will be held in treasury.

Any share purchases will be made in accordance with certain pre-set parameters
set out in the terms of Liberum's engagement, the general authority of the
Company to repurchase shares granted by shareholders at the Company's 2022
annual general meeting with such authority to be renewed at the forthcoming
annual general meeting; and the EU Market Abuse Regulation (596/2014) as it
forms part of domestic law by virtue of section 3 of the European Union
(Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended); and Chapter 12 of the Financial Conduct
Authority's Listing Rules.

The maximum price payable per share (exclusive of expenses) must not exceed
the higher of: (i) 105% of the average middle market quotations for the five
business days preceding the date of purchase; and (ii) the higher of the last
independent trade and the highest current independent bid on the London Stock
Exchange.

A buy-back of Ordinary Shares on any trading day may represent a significant
proportion of the daily trading volume in the Shares on the Exchange (and
could exceed the 25% limit of the average daily trading volume of the
preceding 20 business days as referred to in the Commission Delegated
Regulation (EU) No. 2016/1052 on buy-back programmes (as it forms part of UK
law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018)).

Any purchase of Ordinary Shares by the Company will be notified through an RIS
announcement by no later than 7.30 a.m. on the following business day.
Shareholders should note that whether a buyback of Ordinary Shares is made is
based on a number of factors and, accordingly, no expectation or reliance
should be placed on Liberum exercising such discretion on any one or more
occasions. There is no guarantee that the Programme will be implemented in
full or that any Ordinary Shares will be repurchased by the Company. The
Programme will not impact the Company's existing Ordinary Share dividend
policy, which will continue unaffected through the regular awards of quarterly
dividends.

 

Enquiries:

 Cheyne Capital Management (UK) LLP          +44 (0) 20 7968 7328
 Richard Lang

 Liberum Capital Limited (Corporate Broker)  +44 (0) 20 3100 2222
 Shane Le Prevost
 Richard Crawley
 Edward Mansfield
 Miquela Bezuidenhoudt

 

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