GeoOp Limited
Transaction Type: Company meeting (Allotment)
Allottee: Wentworth Financial Pty Limited, North Ridge Partners Pty Limited and Valuestream Investment Management Limited
Independent Adviser(s): Simmons Corporate Finance (Rule 18)
Date of meeting: 12/12/2017
Exemption: GeoOp Limited – Exemption Notice 2017
GeoOp Limited (GeoOp) had entered into a convertible loan agreement to borrow up to $1.5 million from Wentworth Financial Pty Limited, as well as loans to repay existing convertible notes under amendment deeds with North Ridge Partners Pty Limited and Valuestream Investment Management Limited (together, the Allottees). Under the terms of the loans, the Allottees were entitled in certain circumstances to require that the principal and/or interest be satisfied by the issue of ordinary shares in GeoOp. GeoOp intended to seek shareholder approval for the allotments of shares required to effect the transaction in accordance with rule 7(d) of the Takeovers Code.
On 27 November 2017, the Panel granted an exemption to GeoOp from rules 7(d) and 16(d) of the Code to the extent that those rules required GeoOp to specify the issue price for the allotments in the notice of meeting sent to shareholders. GeoOp shareholders approved the allotments at a special meeting of shareholders on 12 December 2017.
Simmons Corporate Finance prepared a rule 18 independent adviser’s report on the merits of the allotments.
