Share Issue/Capital Change • Jun 19, 2014
Share Issue/Capital Change
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Zalaris ASA- Bookbuilding successfully completed - Offer shares priced at NOK 23 per offer share
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Zalaris ASA- Bookbuilding successfully completed -
Offer shares priced at NOK 23 per offer share
Oslo, 19 June 2014: Zalaris ASA ("Zalaris" or "the
Company") announces the successful completion of the
bookbuilding period for the initial public offering
(the "Offering") of the shares in the Company.
In summary:
- The Company will issue 2,173,913 new shares with
gross proceeds of NOK 50 million in connection with
the Offering. There will be 19,124,263 shares in
issue following the issuance of the new shares.
- Existing shareholders will sell 5,930,887 secondary
shares in the Offering.
- The managers have over-allotted 1,215,720 shares,
representing approximately 15.0% of the number of
offer shares sold and issued in the Offering before
over-allotment, and exercised their option to borrow
a corresponding number of shares from certain of the
existing shareholders for the purpose of covering the
over-allotment.
- The offer shares are priced at NOK 23 per offer
share. Investors in the retail offering will receive
a discount of NOK 1,500 on the aggregate amount
payable for the shares allocated to such investors.
- The offer price of NOK 23 per offer share implies a
market capitalisation of the Company of approximately
NOK 440 million.
- Trading in the shares on Oslo Børs will commence on
20 June 2014.
- Approx. 92.0% of the offer shares in the Offering
were allocated to investors in the institutional
offering and approx. 8.0% of the offer shares were
allocated to investors in the retail offering.
Following the Offering, the Company is expected to
have approx. 650 shareholders.
Notifications of allocated offer shares and the
corresponding amount to be paid by investors are
expected to be communicated to the investors on or
about 19 June 2014. Investors having access to
investor services through their VPS account manager
will be able to check the number of offer shares
allocated to them from approximately 08:00 hours
(CET) on 19 June 2014. The managers may also be
contacted for information regarding allocation.
Certain of the existing shareholders have granted the
managers an over-allotment option, exercisable by ABG
Sundal Collier Norge ASA as stabilisation manager
within 30 days from the first day of listing to cover
over-allotments or other short positions in
connection with the Offering. A separate disclosure
will be issued by the stabilisation manager regarding
the over-allotment and stabilisation activities.
The following primary insiders have sold shares in
the Offering:
- Nordic Capital Partners IV AS (represented at
the board by Narve Reiten)
(Shares sold: 4,267,715, total shareholding following
Offering: 4,267,715 (22.4% of the shares and votes))
- Norwegian Retail AS (controlled by CEO Hans-
Petter Mellerud)
(Shares sold: 1,303,493, total shareholding following
Offering: 3,041,482 (15.9% of the shares and votes))
- Lars Laier Henriksen (Chairman)
(Shares sold: 36,112, total shareholding following
Offering: 36,113 (0.2% of the shares and votes))
- Nina Stemshaug (CFO)
(Shares sold: 2,375, total shareholding following
Offering: 2,375 (0.01% of the shares and votes))
- Peter Thomas Gogstad (Vice President HR
Business Consulting) (personally and through his
holding company Westerland AS)
(Shares sold: 149,608, total shareholding following
Offering: 149,607 (0.8% of the shares and votes))
ABG Sundal Collier Norge ASA and Nordea Markets are
acting as joint lead managers and bookrunners in
connection with the listing and the Offering.
Contact persons:
Hans-Petter Mellerud (CEO)
Phone: +47 928 97 276
Email: [email protected]
Narve Reiten (Board member)
Phone: +47 924 33 320
Email: [email protected]
About Zalaris
Zalaris excels in delivering comprehensive cloud-
based HR and payroll services. The company is
certified as an SAP Business Process Outsourcing
(BPO) Partner and is a leading SAP Human Capital
Management (HCM) and SuccessFactors consulting
partner. Founded in 2000, Zalaris today operates in
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, India, Latvia, Lithuania,
Norway, Poland and Sweden, including local-language
service centers with extensive expertise in HR-
related laws and regulations. Learn more at
www.zalaris.com.
Important information:
These materials are not an offer for sale of
securities.
Copies of this announcement are not being made and
may not be distributed or sent into the United
States, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan or any
other jurisdiction in which such distribution would
be unlawful or would require registration or other
measures.
The securities have not been registered under the
U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "Securities Act"), and may not be offered or
sold in the United States absent registration or an
exemption from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act. The Company does not intend to
register any part of the offering in the United
States or to conduct a public offering of securities
in the United States.
Any offering of securities will be made by means of a
prospectus that may be obtained from the issuer or
the joint lead managers and that will contain
detailed information about the company and
management, as well as financial statements. This
document is an announcement and not a prospectus for
the purposes of Directive 2003/71/EC (together with
any applicable implementing measures in any Member
State, the "Prospectus Directive"). Investors should
not subscribe for any securities referred to in this
document except on the basis of information contained
in the prospectus.
In any EEA Member State other than Norway that has
implemented the Prospectus Directive, this
communication is only addressed to and is only
directed at qualified investors in that Member State
within the meaning of the Prospectus Directive, i.e.,
only to investors who can receive the offer without
an approved prospectus in such EEA Member State.
This communication is only being distributed to and
is only directed at (i) persons who are outside the
United Kingdom or (ii) to investment professionals
falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial
Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion)
Order 2005 (the "Order") or (iii) above together
being referred to as "relevant persons"). The
securities are only available to, and any invitation,
offer or agreement to subscribe, purchase or
otherwise acquire such securities will be engaged in
only with, relevant persons. Any person who is not a
relevant person should not act or rely on this
document or any of its contents.
Matters discussed in this release may constitute
forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements are statements that are not historical
facts and may be identified by words such
as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intends," "esti
mate," "will," "may," "continue," "should" and
similar expressions. The forward-looking statements
in this release are based upon various assumptions,
many of which are based, in turn, upon further
assumptions. Although the Company believes that these
assumptions were reasonable when made, these
assumptions are inherently subject to significant
known and unknown risks, uncertainties, contingencies
and other important factors which are difficult or
impossible to predict and are beyond its control.
Such risks, uncertainties, contingencies and other
important factors could cause actual events to differ
materially from the expectations expressed or implied
in this release by such forward-looking statements.
The information, opinions and forward-looking
statements contained in this release speak only as at
its date, and are subject to change without notice.
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