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RNS Number : 5504W  Taylor Maritime Investments Limited  10 February 2025

10 February 2025

 

 

Taylor Maritime Investments Limited (the "Company")

 

Confirmation of Effective Transfer Date for the Company's ordinary shares
listing from the closed-ended investment funds category to the equity shares
(commercial companies) category of the Official List

 

Change of Name to Taylor Maritime Limited

 

Board Changes

 

 

Confirmation of Effective Transfer Date and Change of Name

 

The Board is pleased to confirm that the transfer of the Company's ordinary
shares listing from the closed-ended investment funds category to the equity
shares (commercial companies) category of the Official List (the "Transfer")
became effective today, 10 February 2025.  Details of the Transfer were
explained in the circular to shareholders dated 11 December 2024 (the
"Circular").

 

At the Company's general meeting held on Monday 13 January 2025, shareholders
also voted in favour of the resolution to change the Company's name to Taylor
Maritime Limited ("TML"), conditional on the Transfer becoming effective.
This change of name has become effective today as a matter of Guernsey law.

 

As a result, dealings under the new name will commence at 8.00am (GMT) on 11
February 2025. The Company's tickers (TMI and TMIP), Legal Entity Identifier
and the ISIN and SEDOL identifiers for the Company's ordinary shares will each
remain unchanged. The Company's website address will shortly change to
https://www.taylormaritime.com (https://www.taylormaritime.com) .

 

Notice has been given to the Guernsey Financial Services Commission for the
surrender of the Company's registration as a closed-ended collective
investment scheme, effective 10 February 2025.

 

Shareholder attention is drawn to paragraphs 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Part 1 of the
Circular for further details of the effect and implications of the Transfer.

 

Board Changes

 

The Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Alexander Slee (Deputy
CEO), Ms. Yam Lay Tan (CFO) and Ms. Camilla Pierrepont (Chief Strategy
Officer) as Executive Directors of the Company with effect from 11 February
2025.

 

Alexander Slee has spent the last 18 years in the shipping industry and has
worked with Edward Buttery since 2016, prior to the Company's IPO. After
starting his career in the investment banking division of Citigroup in London,
he joined Pacific Basin Shipping in Hong Kong in 2006 where he worked in a
variety of corporate and divisional management roles. From 2010 he was General
Manager of Vanship Holdings, a privately owned tanker and bulker ship owning
company, and Group Strategy Director at Univan Ship Management, where he was
closely involved in its merger with Anglo-Eastern Ship Management. Mr. Slee
holds a BA in Classics from Oxford University and has attended a management
programme at INSEAD. He has served as a member of the Executive Committee of
the Hong Kong Shipowners Association, and is a Director of the UK P&I
Club.

 

Yam Lay Tan graduated with an Accountancy degree from Nanyang Technological
University of Singapore (NTU) in 1993. She has been a member of the Institute
of Singapore Chartered Accountants since 1994 and is a Chartered Accountant.
Ms. Tan was General Manager, Finance of Epic Gas Pte. for 6 years. Within the
Epic Group she served as the director and company secretary of more than 40
companies. Prior to Epic, Ms. Tan held senior finance positions in security,
IT, semiconductor and service companies. Ms. Tan has worked with Edward
Buttery since 2019.

 

Camilla Pierrepont began working with Edward Buttery in 2018 as Group Strategy
Director. Ms. Pierrepont has held various strategy and investment roles over
the last 20 years having started her career as a strategy consultant at
Monitor Deloitte (London).  In aggregate, Ms. Pierrepont has spent more than
10 years in the shipping industry including 4 years with shipping company,
Epic Gas Pte (London & Singapore) as Head of Strategic Development.
 Outside of shipping, she has spent time in the technology industry including
as a Portfolio Manager at Blenheim Chalcot (London), a venture capital firm
and as a Senior Strategy Manager in the Strategy and Corporate Development
Team at Microsoft (Seattle). Ms. Pierrepont holds a BA in Chinese Studies from
Oxford University.  She is a Non-Executive Director of WPA Health
Insurance.

 

Henry Strutt, Chairman, commented:

 

"On behalf of the Board, we are pleased with the support from our shareholders
to the resolutions proposed at our 13 January EGM which we consider to be a
natural step in the Company's evolution as a commercial company and will
provide greater operational flexibility to deliver sustainable, long-term
value for shareholders.

 

We are delighted to announce Alex, Camilla and Yam Lay's appointment to the
Board, each having played an integral role in the Company's senior leadership
team since the Company's IPO. We are grateful for their continued commitment
and we welcome them as Executive Directors."

 

 

No further disclosures are required for Alexander Slee, Yam Lay Tan or Camilla
Pierrepont in respect of paragraphs 6.4.8 of the Financial Conduct Authority's
UK Listing Rules.

 

ENDS

 

 For further information, please contact:

Taylor Maritime Limited                              IR@tminvestments.com (mailto:IR@tminvestments.com)

 Edward Buttery

 Camilla Pierrepont

 Jefferies International Limited                      +44 20 7029 8000

 Stuart Klein

 Gaudi Le Roux

 Apex Fund and Corporate Services (Guernsey) Limited  +44 20 3530 3107

 Matt Falla

 

Notes to Editors

 

About the Company

Taylor Maritime Limited (formerly Taylor Maritime Investments Limited) is a
shipping company listed under the equity shares (commercial companies)
category of the Official List, with its shares trading on the Main Market of
the London Stock Exchange since May 2021. Between May 2021 and February 2025,
the Company was listed under the closed-ended investment funds category of the
Official List.  The Company's strategy is focused upon providing investors
with an attractive level of regular, stable, growing income, and the potential
for capital growth. The Group engages in shipping activities, optimising
earnings from safely operating and trading the fleet under an enhanced
strategy, using a mix of time charter, voyage, and CoA cargo cover.

The Company, through its subsidiaries, currently has an owned fleet of 30 dry
bulk vessels consisting of 20 Handysize vessels and 10 Supra/Ultramax vessels
(including one vessel under JV agreement).  The Company also has six vessels
in its chartered in fleet. The ships are employed utilising a variety of
employment/charter strategies.

The Company's target dividend policy is 8 cents p.a. paid on a quarterly
basis.

For more information, please visit www.taylormaritime.com
(http://www.taylormaritime.com) .

About Geared Vessels

Geared vessels are characterised by their own cargo loading and discharging
equipment. The Handysize and Supra/Ultramax market segments are particularly
attractive, given the flexibility, versatility and port accessibility of these
vessels which carry necessity goods - principally food and products related to
infrastructure building - ensuring broad diversification of fleet activity and
stability of earnings through the cycle.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

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which are based on the current expectations and projections about future
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are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions about the Company,
including, among other things, the development of its business, trends in its
operating industry, and future capital expenditures and acquisitions. In light
of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the events in the
forward-looking statements may not occur.

References to target dividend yields and returns are targets only and not
profit forecasts and there can be no assurance that these will be achieved.

 

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