THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION.
It contains resolutions to be voted on at the general meeting of KEFI Gold and Copper plc (the "Company") to be held on 2 January 2025 (the "Resolutions") (the "General Meeting"). If you are in any doubt about the contents of this document or as to what action you should take, you should immediately consult your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other independent financial adviser duly authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended) if you are a resident of the United Kingdom or, if not, another appropriately authorised independent professional adviser.
If you have sold or otherwise transferred all of your ordinary shares of £0.001 each in the capital of the Company (the "Ordinary Shares"), please send this document and the accompanying Form of Proxy as soon as possible to the purchaser or transferee, or to the stockbroker or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser or transferee. However, such documents should not be distributed, forwarded, or transmitted in or into the United States of America, Canada, Australia, the Republic of South Africa, Japan or any other jurisdiction, if to do so would constitute a violation of the relevant laws of such jurisdiction. If you have sold or otherwise transferred some (but not all) of your Ordinary Shares, please retain these documents and consult the stockbroker or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected.
Your attention is drawn to the letter from the chairman of the Company (the "Chairman") in this document, recommending you vote in favour of the Resolutions at the General Meeting.
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KEFI Gold and Copper plc
(Registered in England and Wales with company number 05976748)
(the "Company")
Notice of General Meeting
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Notice convening the General Meeting of the Company on 2 January 2025 at 12:00 p.m. (AEDT) at 49 Pennant Avenue, Denistone East 2112, NSW, Australia is set out at the end of this document. It is important that Shareholders lodge their votes in advance of the General Meeting through submission of their proxy votes. Shareholders will also find enclosed with this document a Form of Proxy. To be valid, the Form of Proxy must be signed and returned in accordance with the instructions printed on it so as to be received by the Company's registrars, Share Registrars Limited, 3 The Millennium Centre, Crosby Way, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7XX, United Kingdom, as soon as possible but in any event no later than 30 December 2024 at 1:00 a.m. (GMT).
Shareholders who hold their Ordinary Shares in uncertificated form may use the CREST electronic proxy appointment service. For a proxy appointment made using the CREST service to be valid, the appropriate CREST message must be properly authenticated and contain the information required for such instructions as described in the CREST Manual. The message must be transmitted so as to be received by the Company's registrars, Share Registrars Limited (ID 7 RA36), by no later than 30 December 2024 at 1:00 a.m. (GMT)
Copies of this document will be available free of charge from the Company's registered office during normal business hours on each day (excluding Saturday, Sunday and public holidays in England and Wales) from the date hereof until the date of the General Meeting. Copies will also be available from the Company's website at www.kefi-goldandcopper.com.
Tavira Financial Limited ("Tavira"), the Company's Broker, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority, is acting for the Company and for no one else in connection with the matters described in this document, and accordingly will not be responsible to any person other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to customers of Tavira, or for providing advice to any other person in relation to the arrangements described in this document.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
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FUNDRAISING AND SHARE CAPITAL STATISTICS
Placing Price | £0.0055 |
Number of Ordinary Shares prior to the Placing, the | |
Conditional Subscription, the Conditional Remuneration | 6,059,089,306 |
Issue and the Retail Offer | |
Number of Firm Placing Shares | 903,193,818 |
Number of Conditional Placing Shares | 315,653,909 |
Number of Conditional Subscription Shares | 472,727,272 |
Number of Conditional Remuneration Shares | 144,788,636 |
Number of Retail Shares | 85,301,849 |
Total number of Firm Placing Shares, Conditional Placing | |
Shares, Conditional Subscription Shares, Conditional | 1,921,665,484 |
Remuneration Shares and Retail Shares | |
Total number of Broker Warrants | 68,796,818 |
Percentage of Enlarged Share Capital represented by the | |
Firm Placing Shares, the Conditional Placing Shares, the | 24.1% |
Conditional Subscription Shares, the Conditional | |
Remuneration Shares and the Retail Shares | |
Estimated cash proceeds of the Placing, the Conditional | £6.0 million |
Subscription, and the Retail Offer | |
Estimated settlement of outstanding liabilities through the | £4.6 million |
Placing and Conditional Remuneration Issue | |
Estimated net proceeds of the Placing, the Conditional | £10.1 million |
Subscription, and the Retail Offer | |
Number of Ordinary Shares in issue immediately following | 7,047,584,973 |
the First Admission | |
Number of Ordinary Shares in issue immediately following | 7,980,754,790 |
the Second Admission | |
Number of Ordinary Shares in issue immediately following | |
the Second Admission if all the Broker Warrants are | 8,049,551,608 |
exercised in full | |
Market capitalisation of the Company at the Placing Price | £43,894,151 |
on the Second Admission | |
ISIN code for the Firm Placing Shares, the Conditional | |
Placing Shares, the Conditional Subscription Shares, the | GB00BD8GP619 |
Conditional Remuneration Shares and the Retail Shares | |
SEDOL for the Firm Placing Shares, the Conditional | BD8GP61 |
Placing Shares, the Conditional Subscription Shares, the | |
Conditional Remuneration Shares and the Retail Shares | |
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EXPECTED TIMETABLE OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS
Circular is posted to Shareholders | 6 December 2024 |
First Admission | on or around 6 December |
2024 | |
Expected crediting of CREST accounts with the Firm Placing Shares and Retail | on or around 6 December |
Shares | 2024 |
Expected dispatch of definitive share certificates in respect of the Firm Placing | |
Shares and Retail Shares in certificated form | 31 December 2024 |
Latest time and date for receipt of CREST voting instructions | 1:00 a.m. (GMT) on 30 |
December 2024 | |
Latest time and date for receipt of Form of Proxy | 1:00 a.m. (GMT) on 30 |
December 2024 | |
General Meeting | 2 January 2025 at 12:00 |
p.m. (AEDT) | |
Second Admission | on or around 8.00 a.m. |
(GMT) on 3 January 2025 | |
Expected crediting of CREST accounts with the Conditional Placing Shares, | |
Conditional Subscription Shares, and Conditional Remuneration Shares | on or around 3 January 2025 |
Expected dispatch of definitive share certificates in respect of the Conditional | |
Placing Shares, Conditional Subscription Shares, and Conditional | |
Remuneration Shares in certificated form | |
30 January 2025 | |
Notes: |
- In this document, unless otherwise noted, all references to time are to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
- The timing of events in the above timetable and the rest of this document are indicative only. If any of the times or dates change, the revised times and/or dates will be notified by way of an announcement via a RIS.
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DEFINITIONS
The following definitions apply throughout this document, unless the context otherwise requires:
"2006 Act" | the Companies Act 2006 |
"AIM" | the market of that name operated by the London |
Stock Exchange | |
"AIM Rules" | the AIM Rules for Companies published by the |
London Stock Exchange from time to time | |
"Board" or "Directors" | the directors of the Company whose names are |
set out on page 8 of this document | |
"Broker" | means Tavira, acting as broker in the context of |
the Placing | |
"Broker Warrants" | the 68,796,818 warrants to be granted to Tavira |
pursuant to the Broker Warrant Instrument in | |
connection with the Placing, subject to approval | |
at the General Meeting | |
"Broker Warrant Instrument" | the instrument entered into by the Company on 2 |
December 2024 relating to the issue of | |
68,796,818 Broker Warrants to subscribe for the | |
Ordinary Shares | |
"Capital Raise" | the Placing, the Conditional Subscription, the |
Conditional Remuneration Issue and the Retail | |
Offer | |
"Conditional Placing" | a conditional placing of 315,653,909 new |
Ordinary Shares at the Placing Price, subject to | |
the approval of the Shareholders at the General | |
Meeting, which is being conducted by the Broker | |
"Conditional Placing Shares" | 315,653,909 new Ordinary Shares to be issued |
by the Company pursuant to the Conditional | |
Placing at the Placing Price | |
"Conditional Remuneration Issue" | the issue of the Conditional Remuneration |
Shares to which certain Directors and PDMRs of | |
the Company and corporate advisers have | |
elected to receive new Ordinary Shares in lieu of | |
accrued fees of approximately £800,000 | |
"Conditional Remuneration | 144,788,636 new Ordinary Shares to be issued |
Shares" | by the Company at the Placing Price, subject to |
the approval of the Shareholders at the General | |
Meeting, to certain Directors and corporate | |
advisers | |
"Conditional Subscription" | the subscription of Conditional Subscription |
Shares by the Subscriber to raise £2,600,000 | |
(excluding expenses) | |
"CREST" | the computerised settlement system (as defined |
in the CREST Regulations) operated by | |
Euroclear which facilitates the transfer of title to | |
shares in uncertificated form | |
"CREST Manual" | the document of that name issued by Euroclear |
"Enlarged Share Capital" | the issued Ordinary Share capital of the |
Company immediately following the Second | |
Admission |
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"Euroclear" | Euroclear UK & International Limited, the |
operator of CREST | |
"Firm Placing" | the placing of Firm Placing Shares at the Placing |
Price arranged by the Broker. | |
"Firm Placing Shares" | 903,193,818 new Ordinary Shares to be issued |
by the Company at the Placing Price, under the | |
existing shareholders' authorities granted at the | |
Company's general meeting held on 26 March | |
2024 | |
"First Admission" | means admission of the Firm Placing Shares and |
the Retail Shares to trading on AIM, expected to | |
become effective at 8.00 a.m. (GMT) on or | |
around 6 December 2024 | |
"Form of Proxy" | the form of proxy accompanying this document |
"General Meeting" | the general meeting of the Company to be held at |
12:00 p.m. (AEDT) on 2 January 2025, notice of | |
which is set out at the end of this document | |
"Ordinary Shares" | ordinary shares of £0.001 each in the capital of |
the Company | |
"London Stock Exchange" | London Stock Exchange plc |
"Major Works" | means the major works to be launched at the Tulu |
Kapi Project | |
"Net Proceeds" | means the net proceeds of the Capital Raise of |
approximately £10.1 million | |
"PDMR" | means persons discharging managerial |
responsibilities | |
"Placing" | the placing of the Firm Placing Shares and the |
Conditional Placing Shares to raise gross | |
proceeds of £6,703,663 | |
"Placing Agreement" | the placing agreement entered into between the |
Company and the Broker in respect of the | |
Placing, dated 2 December 2024 | |
"Placing Price" | 0.55 pence per Ordinary Share |
"PrimaryBid" | means PrimaryBid Limited, a private limited |
company incorporated in England and Wales with | |
company registration number 08092575 | |
"Resolutions" or "Resolution" | the resolutions or resolution to be proposed to |
Shareholders at the General Meeting as set out | |
in this document | |
" Retail Offer" | means the offer of the Retail Shares to retail |
investors in the United Kingdom undertaken by | |
PrimaryBid on behalf of the Company | |
"Retail Shares" | means the 85,301,849 new Ordinary Shares |
allotted and issued to retail investors in the United | |
Kingdom at the Placing Price pursuant to the | |
Retail Offer | |
"Rights" | the grant of rights to subscribe for or convert any |
security into Ordinary Shares |
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"RIS"
"Second Admission"
"Shareholders"
"Share Registrars Limited"
"Subscriber"
"Tavira"
"TKGM"
"Tulu Kapi Project" or "Tulu Kapi"
"£", "GBP" or "Sterling"
a service approved by the Financial Conduct Authority for the distribution to the public of regulatory announcements
means admission of the Conditional Placing Shares, the Conditional Subscription Shares, and the Conditional Remuneration Shares to trading on AIM, expected to become effective at 8.00 a.m. (GMT) on or around 3 January 2025
holders of Ordinary Shares
Share Registrars Limited (registered in England and Wales under number 04715037) whose registered office is at 27-28 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8DH
means Safaya Investment In Commercial Enterprises & Management Co. L.L.C
Tavira Financial Limited (registered in England and Wales under number 05471230) whose registered office is at 13th Floor, 88 Wood Street, London ECV 7DA
Tulu Kapi Gold Mines Share Company (the Company's Ethiopian project subsidiary)
the design, development, engineering, construction, equipment, testing, commissioning, management, operation and maintenance of the Tulu Kapi gold project owned by TKGM in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
pounds sterling, the lawful currency for the time being of the United Kingdom and references to "pence" and "p" shall be construed accordingly
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KEFI Gold and Copper plc | |
(Registered in England and Wales with company number 05976748) | |
(the "Company") | |
LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN | |
Directors: | Registered Office |
Harry Anagnostaras-Adams (Executive Chairman) | 27-28 Eastcastle Street |
John Leach (Finance Director) | London |
Richard Robinson (Non-executive Director) | W1W 8DH |
Addis Alemayehou (Non-executive Director) | United Kingdom |
Alistair Clark (Non-executive Director) |
6 December 2024
Dear Shareholder,
Notice of General Meeting
I am writing to you to give notice of the General Meeting of the Company to be held at 12:00 p.m. (AEDT) on 2 January 2025, formal notice of which is set out at the end of this document. The Notice sets out the resolutions to be proposed, together with general notes for Shareholders who wish to give proxy voting instructions.
On 2 and 3 December 2024, the Company announced details of a fundraising consisting of:
- a firm placing of 903,193,818 new Ordinary Shares (the "Firm Placing Shares") at the Placing Price to raise £4,967,566 (before expenses) (the "Firm Placing"), including approximately £3.1 million in settlement of existing liabilities, conducted by the Broker;
- a conditional placing of 315,653,909 new Ordinary Shares at the Placing Price (the "Conditional Placing Shares"), subject to the approval of the Shareholders at the General Meeting, to raise £1,736,097 (excluding expenses), including approximately £0.7 million in settlement of existing liabilities (the "Conditional Placing", and, together with the Firm Placing, the "Placing") which is being conducted by the Broker;
- a conditional subscription of 472,727,272 Ordinary Shares at the Placing Price, subject to approval of the Shareholders at the General Meeting (the "Conditional Subscription Shares"), to raise £2,600,000 (excluding expenses) (the "Conditional Subscription"), by Safaya Investment In Commercial Enterprises & Management Co. L.L.C (the "Subscriber");
- a conditional issue of 144,788,636 new Ordinary Shares at the Placing Price, subject to the approval of the Shareholders at the General Meeting, pursuant to which certain Directors and corporate advisers have elected to receive new Ordinary Shares (the "Conditional Remuneration Shares") in lieu of accrued fees of approximately £800,000 (the "Conditional Remuneration Issue"); and
- an offer through PrimaryBid Limited ("PrimaryBid") which resulted in the Company raising gross proceeds of approximately £469,160 (before expenses) via the issue of 85,301,849 Ordinary Shares (the "Retail Shares") at the Placing Price to certain retail investors (the "Retail Offer" and, together with the Placing, the Conditional Subscription and the Conditional Remuneration Issue, the "Capital Raise").
Placing
The Company has raised £4,967,566 (excluding expenses) through the issue of 903,193,818 new Ordinary Shares (the "Firm Placing Shares") at the Placing Price, and will raise £1,736,097 (excluding expenses) through the issue of 315,653,909 new Ordinary Shares (the "Conditional Placing Shares") at the Placing Price, subject to the approval of the Shareholders at the General Meeting.
Conditional Subscription
The Company will raise £2,600,000 (excluding expenses) through the issue of 472,727,272 new Ordinary Shares (the "Conditional Subscription Shares") at the Placing Price, subject to the approval of the Shareholders at the General Meeting.
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Conditional Remuneration Issue
The Company is proposing to issue 144,788,636 new Ordinary Shares to certain Directors and corporate advisers (the "Conditional Remuneration Shares") in lieu of accrued fees of approximately £800,000, subject to the approval of the Shareholders at the General Meeting.
Retail Offer
The Directors wanted to give Shareholders and investors the opportunity to participate in the Company's ongoing funding if they were unable to participate in the Placing.
As announced on 3 December 2024, the Company has raised gross proceeds of £469,160 (before expenses) via the issue of the Retail Shares pursuant to the Retail Offer.
Admission
Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for admission of the Firm Placing Shares and the Retail Shares to trading on AIM and it is expected that admission will become effective and that dealings in the Firm Placing Shares and the Retail Shares will commence at 8.00 a.m. on or around 6 December 2024 ("First Admission").
Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for admission of the Conditional Placing Shares, the Conditional Subscription Shares, and the Conditional Remuneration Shares to trading on AIM and it is expected that admission will become effective and that dealings in the Conditional Placing Shares, the Conditional Subscription Shares and the Conditional Remuneration Shares will commence at 8.00 a.m. on or around 3 January 2025 ("Second Admission").
Shareholders' Approval
The Conditional Placing, the Conditional Subscription, and the Conditional Remuneration Issue are all conditional, inter alia, on First Admission becoming effective, the passing of the Resolutions at the General Meeting and Second Admission becoming effective.
Shareholders are reminded that because the Conditional Placing, the Conditional Subscription, and the Conditional Remuneration Issue are conditional, among other things, on the passing of the share allotment and disapplication of pre-exemption rights Resolutions at the General Meeting, should the Resolutions not be passed, the Conditional Placing, the Conditional Subscription, and the Conditional Remuneration Issue will not proceed.
Split between Cash and Set-Off Liabilities
Participants in the Firm Placing, the Conditional Placing and the Conditional Remuneration Issue have elected to convert certain outstanding liabilities payable by the Company into new Ordinary Shares. A total of 828,471,733 Ordinary Shares, will be issued to extinguish approximately £4.6 million of the Company's outstanding liabilities. With the participation in the Retail Offer, the Company will raise approximately £6.0 million in cash (before expenses) as a result of the Capital Raise.
Use of Proceeds
The expected net proceeds of the Capital Raise of approximately £10.1 million (the "Net Proceeds") will be applied to:
- completion of project financing and launch of the Company's Tulu Kapi Project, including the legal and professional fees of the Company and its banks, preparation of the community, site and district security installation and administrative costs of satisfying the remaining conditions for the project finance package;
- settling current liabilities and advances to strengthen the Company's balance sheet ahead of the proposed Tulu Kapi Project development and anticipated issuance of a number of exploration licence applications in Ethiopia; and
- general working capital purposes.
The Company expects the Tulu Kapi Project's Major Works to launch in early 2025 following the signing of detailed definitive documentation and satisfaction of the outstanding conditions precedent that are typical for a transaction of this nature.
Placing Agreement and issue of the Broker Warrants
Tavira is acting as the broker to the Placing (the "Broker"). The Company has appointed Tavira as its agent pursuant to the terms of a placing agreement executed on 2 December 2024 (the "Placing Agreement").
The Company has agreed to pay the Broker certain commissions and fees, some of which will be satisfied through the grant of 68,796,818 warrants over Ordinary Shares (the "Broker Warrants"). Each Broker Warrant will entitle the Broker to subscribe for one new Ordinary Share at a price of 0.55 pence per Ordinary Share, exercisable for a period of three years from the date of Second Admission.
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Conditional Remuneration Issue to Director and PDMR and Advisers for the settlement of debt and accrued fees
The number of Conditional Remuneration Shares to be issued to the relevant Director and the relevant person discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMR") and their resulting shareholdings are set out below:
Name | Number of | Number of | Number of | Value of |
existing ordinary | Conditional | Ordinary Shares | Conditional | |
shares | Remuneration | held on | Remuneration | |
in the | Shares | Second | Shares | |
Company | Admission | (£) | ||
John Leach (Finance | 61,978,123 | 45,454,545 | 107,432,668 | 250,000 |
Director) | ||||
Eddy Solbrandt (Chief | ||||
Operating Officer) | 82,054,572 | 56,788,636 | 138,843,208 | 312,337 |
Total Conditional | ||||
Remuneration Shares | 144,032,695 | 102,243,181 | 246,275,876 | 562,337 |
The Directors will receive a portion of the Conditional Remuneration Shares through consultancy companies in which they have a stake.
In addition, 42,545,454 Conditional Remuneration Shares, with a total value of £234,000, will be issued at the Placing Price to certain key advisers to the Company in consideration for their services to support various value-adding initiatives for the Tulu Kapi Project.
Related party transaction disclosures
The participation in the Conditional Remuneration Issue by Finance Director John Leach and Chief Operating Officer Eddy Solbrandt, is being treated as a related party transaction under AIM Rule 13 of the AIM Rules. Alistair Clark, Harry Anagnostaras Adams, Addis Alemayehou and Richard Robinson, being the Directors independent of the Conditional Remuneration Issue, consider after having consulted with the Company's nominated adviser, SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP, that the terms of the Conditional Remuneration Issue are fair and reasonable in so far as the Shareholders are concerned.
Notice of General Meeting
You will find at the end of this document a notice convening the General Meeting to be held at 49 Pennant Avenue, Denistone East 2112, NSW, Australia on 2 January 2025 at 12:00 p.m. (AEDT) to consider and, if thought appropriate, to approve:
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the allotment and issue and the disapplication of pre-emption rights in connection with the issue of: o the Conditional Placing Shares;
o the Conditional Subscription Shares;
o the Conditional Remuneration Shares; and o the Broker Warrants. - the issue and the disapplication of pre-emption rights in connection with the issue of additional options within the rules of the Company's long-standing employee incentive options plan, including the provision that the total of incentive options on issue does not exceed 10% of the Company's issued share capital immediately following Second Admission; and
- the issue and the disapplication of pre-emption rights in connection with the issue of Ordinary Shares representing up to 20% of the Company's issued share capital immediately following Second Admission to new and existing Shareholders, such authority to be available for future share issuances up to the Company's annual general meeting in 2025 or 30 September 2025, whichever is the earliest.
Action to be taken in respect of the General Meeting
You can vote in respect of your shareholding by attending the General Meeting or by appointing one or more proxies to attend the General Meeting and vote on your behalf. If you appoint a proxy, you may still attend and vote at the General Meeting in person should you decide to do so.
Whether or not you propose to attend the General Meeting in person, you are requested to appoint a proxy who will be able to vote for you if you are prevented from attending.
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