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December 2024
SEEEN plc
("SEEEN", "Group", or the
"Company")
Issue of £325,000 of
Convertible Loan Notes
Further Subscription for
£487,500 of Conditional Convertible Loan Notes
and
Related Party
Transaction
Further to the Company's
announcements made on 31 May 2024 and 2 December 2024, SEEEN plc
(AIM: SEEN), the global media and technology platform that delivers
Key Video Moments and Video Commerce to transform its clients'
video profitability, is pleased to announce that, pursuant to the
conditional subscription agreement, Gresham House Asset Management
Limited ("Gresham House")
has now unconditionally subscribed for five year unsecured
convertible loan notes ("Convertible Loan Notes" or
"CLNs") to raise a total of
approximately £315,000 for SEEEN, which have now been issued.
Immediately prior to this unconditional subscription, the original
conditional subscription agreement was amended to incorporate a
potential further conditional subscription by Gresham House to
acquire further five year conditional unsecured convertible loan
notes in the principal amount of £487,500 (the "Additional Conditional Notes"). Further
details on this amendment are outlined below.
As outlined as part of the
fundraising announced on 31 May 2024, SEEEN intends to utilise the
net proceeds from the approximately £315,000 of CLNs now issued
primarily for investing in its sales team, developing training and
skills features in respect of its products, and for its general
working capital requirements.
Convertible Loan Notes
The Company has raised a total of
£315,250 via the Convertible Loan Notes. The Convertible Loan Notes
have a face value of £325,000 and carry interest at 12% per annum
which shall roll up and accrue daily and be payable on maturity or
prepayment of the CLNs. The Convertible Loan Notes shall mature on
the fifth anniversary of the CLN. SEEEN may prepay the CLNs or any
part of the CLNs early, having given Gresham House 30 days'
notice.
The Convertible Loan Notes have a
conversion price of £0.03 (three pence) per ordinary share of 0.1
pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Share"). Gresham House
shall have the right to convert the Convertible Loan Notes at any
time not less than 10 Business Days before the earlier of: the
fifth anniversary of the date of the Convertible Loan Notes; the
Company raising not less than £500,000 via an equity fundraising(s)
or a change of control of the Company; or the Company giving notice
to prepay the Convertible Loan Notes. The Convertible Loan Notes
provide that Gresham House shall not exercise its conversion rights
to the extent that it would, after conversion, hold more than
29.99% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.
The Convertible Loan Notes grant
Gresham House certain information rights in relation to the Company
which are customary for an instrument of this type and also provide
Gresham House with the right to appoint a nominee Director to
SEEEN's Board. The Convertible Loan Notes are subject to
other customary provisions, including events of default.
Additional Conditional Notes
The Additional Conditional Notes
would be issued on the same terms as the CLNs except
that, if subscribed for, the Additional
Conditional Notes would have a conversion price of £0.045 (four and
a half pence) per Ordinary Share.
The conditions to the issue of the
Additional Conditional Notes under the amended conditional
subscription agreement include, inter alia: (a) the Company having the
authority to allot Ordinary Shares pursuant to a conversion of the
Additional Conditional Notes without rights of pre-emption applying
or resolutions being passed at a general meeting of the Company to
authorise the Company to allot Ordinary Shares pursuant to a
conversion of the Additional Conditional Notes without rights of
pre-emption applying; (b) approval of the terms of the subscription
for the Additional Conditional Notes by the Gresham House
investment committee; and (c) Gresham House and the Company
receiving satisfactory evidence that the Company, the Additional
Conditional Notes and any Ordinary Shares issued from conversion of
the Additional Conditional Notes will comply with the requirements
of the Venture Capital Trust rules. These conditions must be
satisfied or (if capable of waiver) waived by 18 June 2026 in order
for Gresham House to subscribe for the Additional Conditional
Notes. The conditions to the subscription of the Additional
Conditional Notes also include provisions that restrict Gresham
House's aggregate interest in equity shares in the Company from
exceeding 29.99 per cent of the Company's issued ordinary share
capital.
The potential issue of the
Additional Conditional Notes is to provide Gresham House with
similar terms to the warrants that were granted to certain of the
participants in the Company's placing and subscription of Ordinary
Shares announced on 31 May 2024.
Related Party Transaction
As Gresham House currently holds
more than 10 per cent. of the Company's Ordinary Shares, Gresham
House's subscription for the Convertible Loan Notes (including the
conditional subscription for the Additional Conditional Notes) is
deemed to be a related party transaction pursuant to Rule 13 of the
AIM Rules for Companies. The Directors consider, having consulted
with the Company's nominated adviser, Allenby Capital, that the
terms of the subscription for the Convertible Loan Notes (including
the conditional subscription for the Additional Conditional Notes)
by Gresham House are fair and reasonable insofar as the Company's
shareholders are concerned.
For
further information please contact:
SEEEN plc
Adrian Hargrave,
CEO
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Tel: +44 (0)7775 701 838
Website: seeen.com
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Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated
Adviser)
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Tel: +44
(0)20 3328 5656
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Alex Brearley / George Payne
(Corporate Finance)
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Dowgate Capital Limited (Joint Broker)
Stephen Norcross
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Tel:
+44(0)20 3903 7721
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Capital Plus Partners Limited (Joint Broker)
Jonathan Critchley
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Tel:
+44(0)20 3821 6167
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focusIR (Investor Relations)
Paul Cornelius / Kat
Perez
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Tel:
+44(0)7866 384 707
seeen@focusir.com
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