Share Purchase Plan Oversubscribed
Serko Limited, Saatchi Building, Unit 14D 125 The Strand, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
PO Box 47-638, Ponsonby, T: +64 9 309 4754, F: +64 9 377 0545 company.secretary@serko.com
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Market Release
27 October 2020
Share Purchase Plan Oversubscribed
Serko Limited (NZX/ASX:SKO) ("Serko"), a leader in online travel booking and expense management
for the business travel market, is pleased to announce that its NZ$10 million share purchase plan
("SPP") has closed oversubscribed. The SPP received strong shareholder support with Serko
receiving applications totalling approximately NZ$25 million.
Serko has elected to accept NZ$10 million of oversubscriptions, bringing the total amount of capital
raised under the SPP to NZ$20 million.
Serko Chief Executive Darrin Grafton said: “We are delighted with the strong support we have received
for the SPP and the underwritten placement.
“The success of the capital raising is an endorsement of our strategy to move more quickly on the
opportunities arising from the changing business travel market, including those that have emerged from
the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We are now even better placed to help our resellers, partners and business customers worldwide to
manage this disruption and help them prepare for a recovery.
“Serko has elected to accept oversubscriptions to take advantage of the growth opportunities available
and, in so doing, we have reduced the need to scale our supportive retail shareholders”, Mr Grafton
said.
Applications will be scaled on a proportionate basis in accordance with the number of Serko shares
held by applicants on the Record Date (30 September 2020). Refunds of the surplus application
amount paid will be made to applicants on or before 5 November 2020.
The SPP was offered to all eligible existing Serko shareholders with a registered address in New
Zealand or Australia, enabling them to each apply for up to NZ$50,000 / A$46,500 of new Serko
shares. The new shares under the SPP will be issued at the same price as the Placement of
NZ$4.55.
The SPP is part of Serko's equity raising initiative announced on 1 October 2020, whereby Serko also
undertook a fully underwritten placement of NZ$47.5 million of new shares.
Settlement of the SPP is expected to occur on 28 October 2020 and 29 October 2020 for the ASX and
NZX respectively, with allotment of all shares on 29 October 2020. Trading of the SPP shares is
expected to commence on NZX on 29 October 2020 and on ASX on 30 October 2020.
The new shares to be issued under the SPP will rank equally in all respects with Serko's existing
ordinary shares.
Craigs Investment Partners Limited and Ord Minnett Limited acted as Joint Bookrunners and
Underwriters and Craigs Investment Partners Limited and Cameron Partners Limited (New Zealand
global alliance partner of Rothschild & Co.) acted as Joint Arrangers for the Offer. Serko's legal
advisers are Russell McVeagh and Herbert Smith Freehills.
Ends
Serko Limited, Saatchi Building, Unit 14D 125 The Strand, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
PO Box 47-638, Ponsonby, T: +64 9 309 4754, F: +64 9 377 0545 company.secretary@serko.com
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This announcement has been authorised for release to NZX and ASX by:
Sarah Miller, General Counsel
Phone: +64 9 309 4754 or +64 272 450 267
Email: investor.relations@serko.com
For investor relations queries please contact:
Susan Putt, Chief Financial Officer
Phone: +64 9 309 4754 or +64 21 388 009
Email: investor.relations@serko.com
For media relations queries please contact:
Richard Inder, Media Consultant to Serko
Phone: +64 21 645 643
Email: richard@theproject.co.nz
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