# Tern raises £400,000 through AIM placing for IoT investments

- Link: https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/tern-raises-400000-through-aim-placing-for-iot-investments/4121181408
- Published: 2024-12-16T07:17:53+00:00
- Author: Amilia Stone

**[Tern Plc](https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/company/tern-plc/tern.l) **(
[LON:TERN](https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/company/tern-plc/tern.l)), the
investment company specialising in supporting high growth, early-stage, disruptive
Internet of Things technology businesses, has announced that it has raised £400,000,
before expenses, through a placing of 30,769,231 new ordinary shares of 0.02p each
in the Company at a price of 1.3 pence per new Ordinary Share. The Placing is conditional
upon the Placing Shares being admitted to trading on AIM.

The Placing Shares will represent approximately 5.86 per cent. of the Company’s 
enlarged issued share capital following the Placing.  The Issue Price represents
a discount of approximately 16.13 per cent. to the mid-market closing price of 1.55
pence per Ordinary Share on 13 December 2024, being the latest practicable business
day prior to the publication of this announcement.

The net proceeds of the Placing are currently intended to be used to provide the
Company with funds to invest further in one or more of Tern’s portfolio holdings
and for general corporate purposes, including operating and legal expenses.  Further
announcements will be made by the Company in due course as appropriate.

Shard Capital Partners LLP acted as the Company’s sole placing agent in respect 
of the Placing. 

**Admission and Total Voting Rights**

The Placing has been conducted utilising the Directors’ existing authorities to 
issue new Ordinary Shares.  The Placing Shares will rank _pari passu_ in all respects
with the existing Ordinary Shares.  The Placing is conditional, _inter alia_, on:
i) there being no breach of the obligations under the Placing Agreement entered 
into between Shard Capital and the Company prior to Admission; and ii) Admission.
Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the Placing Shares to 
be admitted to trading on AIM.  It is expected that Admission will become effective
and that dealings in the Placing Shares on AIM will commence on or around 19 December
2024.

In accordance with the Financial Conduct Authority’s Disclosure, Guidance and Transparency
Rules, the Company confirms that following Admission, the Company’s enlarged issued
ordinary share capital will comprise 524,993,062 Ordinary Shares. The Company does
not hold any shares in Treasury.  Therefore, from Admission, the total number of
voting rights in the Company will be 524,993,062 and from Admission this figure 
may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations
to determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their
interest in the Company, under the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

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