PRESS RELEASE
REGULATED INFORMATION – INSIDE INFORMATION
25 November 2022, Antwerp, Belgium – 10h30 a.m.
VGP rights offering (with non-statutory preferential rights for existing shareholders) of a maximum of 5,458,262 new shares, amounting to a maximum of EUR 302,933,541
94.43% of the New Shares subscribed at closing of the rights Subscription Period for holders of Preferential Rights
Start of Private Placement of Scrips on 25 November 2022 – Suspension of trading until publication of results of the Offering1
An Investment in the New Shares involves substantial risks and uncertainties. Prospective investors must be able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the New Shares, the Preferential Rights or the Scrips and should be able to sustain a partial or total loss of their investment. Before making any investment decision, the investors must read the prospectus, approved by the FSMA on 15 November 2022 and available on the website (www.vgpparks.eu), in its entirety (and, in particular, the section on Risk factors starting on page 9). Investors should in particular note that the Issuer’s solvability and liquidity depends on the sustainability of its development activities, its ability to execute new lease agreements and its sales cycles of completed projects to the Second Joint Venture and the Fourth Joint Venture, taking into account the postponement of the first closing with the Fourth Joint Venture.
During the Subscription Period with Preferential Rights, which closed on 24 November 2022 (16:00 CET), 5,153,976 New Shares, or 94.43% of the maximum number of New Shares offered for subscription, have been subscribed for at a subscription price of EUR 55.50 per New Share, on the basis of 1 New Share for 4 Preferential Rights.
The 1,217,146 unexercised Preferential Rights have automatically been converted into an equal number of Scrips. These Scrips will be be sold in a private placement with qualified investors in Belgium and by way of a private placement exempt from prospectus requirements or similar formalities in such other jurisdictions as will be determined by the Issuer in consultation with the Global Coordinators. The Scrips Private Placement will be conducted in reliance on Regulation S under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The Scrips Private Placement will be organised by way of an accelerated book-building procedure, in order to determine a single market price per Scrip. The Private Placement of Scrips will take place as from the publication of this press release and is expected to end on the same day. Investors who acquire Scrips enter into an irrevocable commitment to exercise the Scrips and thus to subscribe for the corresponding number of New Shares at the Issue Price and in accordance with the Ratio, i.e., 1 New Share (at EUR 55.50 per New Share) for 4 Preferential Rights in the form of Scrips.
The net proceeds from the sale of Scrips (rounded down to a whole eurocent per unexercised Preferential Right) after deducting expenses, charges and all forms of expenditure which the Issuer has to incur for the sale of the Scrips (the “Net Scrips Proceeds”), if any, will be distributed proportionally between all holders of unexercised Preferential Rights and will be paid to the holders of such unexercised Preferential Rights upon presentation of coupon n° 11, as from 30 November 2022. If the Net Scrips Proceeds are less than EUR 0.01 per unexercised Preferential Right, the holders of such unexercised Preferential Rights are not entitled to receive any payment and, instead, the Net Scrips Proceeds will be transferred to the Issuer.
The results of the subscriptions for New Shares resulting from the exercise of the Scrips and the Net Scrips Proceeds due to the holders of unexercised Preferential Rights, will be published in a press release on the Company’s website, in principle later today, 25 November 2022.
The payment and delivery of the New Shares is expected to be carried out with a value date as per 29 November 2022 and the subscribers’ account will be debited on the same date (subject to the relevant financial intermediary procedures) (except for subscriptions with Preferential Rights attached to registered Existing Shares, for which the payment had to reach the Company by 24 November 2022 at 16:00 CET).
The New Shares will in principle be tradable on the regulated market of Euronext Brussels as from 29 November 2022.
The trading of the shares of the Company on the regulated market of Euronext Brussels was, at the Company’s request, suspended as from the opening of the markets earlier today, 25 November 2022, until the publication of the press release relating to the results of the Offering (after completion of the Private Placement of Scrips).
Any decision to invest in securities in the framework of the Offering must be based on all information provided in the Prospectus, and any supplements thereto, as the case may be. The approval of the Prospectus by the FSMA should not be understood as an endorsement of the new shares offered.
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Belfius Bank NV in cooperation with Kepler Cheuvreux S.A., BNP Paribas Fortis SA/NV, J.P. Morgan SE and KBC Securities NV are acting
as Joint Global Coordinators in this transaction.
About VGP
VGP is a pan-European owner, manager and developer of high-quality logistics and semi-industrial real estate. VGP operates a fully integrated business model with capabilities and longstanding expertise across the value chain. Founded in 1998 as a Belgian family-owned real estate developer in the Czech Republic, VGP with a staff of circa 380 FTEs today and operates in 19 European countries directly and through several 50:50 joint ventures. As of June 2022, the Gross Asset Value of VGP, including the joint ventures at 100%, amounted to EUR 6.53 billion. VGP is listed on Euronext Brussels. (ISIN: BE0003878957).
For more information, please visit: http://www.vgpparks.eu
Contact details for investors and media enquiries
Martijn Vlutters
(VP – Business Development & Investor Relations)
Tel: +32 (0)3 289 1433
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