Tai Zi Capital Ltd

 

Admission to AIM

 

 

Tai Zi Capital Ltd (“Tai Zi” or the Company) is an investing company focused  on the acquisition of interests in property in Taiwan and more generally in far East Asia.

 

 

KEY POINTS

 

 

 

 

Number of Ordinary Shares in issue on Admission:  6,000,000

 

Market capitalisation on Admission at the Admission Price of US$1 per Ordinary Share:

£3,041,054*

 

Dealings on AIM in the shares of Tai Zi begin today (1 July 2008)

 

Nominated Adviser and Broker to Tai Zi is Zimmerman Adams International Limited.

 

 

* Nb exchange rate of £1:US$1.973 used

 

 

1 July 2008

 

 

 

 

ENQUIRIES:

 

Tai Zi Capital Ltd                                                           Tel: +852 3719 7300

Lawrence Man Kwan NG

 

Zimmerman Adams International Limited                         Tel: +44 (0) 20 7060 1760

Dominique Doussot

Charity Walmsley

 

Capitalised  terms  used   but  not  defined  in  this  announcement have   the  same meanings as given to them in the Admission Document.


 

 

 

Tai Zi Capital Ltd:

Admission to AIM

 

 

The Company

 

Tai Zi Capital Ltd (Tai Zi or the Company”) is an investing company focused on the acquisition of interests in property in Taiwan and more generally Far East Asia. Tai Zi was incorporated in the  Cayman  Islands  on  23  November  2007  as  an exempt  company  with  limited  liability.  Its founder  shareholder  is  Prince  Asset  Management  Co.  Ltd,  (“Prince  Asset”),  a  company incorporated  in Hong Kong.   The Company is deemed to be “an investing company for the purposes of the AIM Rules for Companies.

 

The Board will seek Shareholders approval, at each annual general meeting, by way of a simple majority, for the continuance of the Companys investment strategy. No changes may be made to the Companys investment strategy without Shareholder approval. If no investment or acquisition is made  within  18 months  of Admission,  then the Directors  intend  to convene  a meeting  of Shareholders to consider whether to continue with its business, to consider alternative investment strategies or to wind up the Company and to distribute any surplus cash to Shareholders.

 

The Companys Investment Strategy

 

The Company intends to build shareholder value by acquiring properties and growing a portfolio of rental investment properties located in major cities in Far East Asia including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and possibly other areas of China. These are anticipated to comprise office, commercial  properties  and residential  properties.  The Board believes that these may provide attractive cash flows and yields together with opportunities for further revenue growth through proactive  property  management.  The  Company  may  also  invest  in  other  property  related companies or businesses where suitable.

 

The Directors intend to actively manage the acquired properties and may either acquire and/or establish a property management team, whose objective will be to maintain and increase high occupancy levels, to achieve strong rental revenue growth and to maximise net operating profits. The Company will primarily seek to invest in income-producing  properties in or around major urban  centres.  The  Company  may  also  invest  in  the  construction   and  development   or refurbishment  of  properties,  either  wholly  owned  by  the  Company  or  as  joint  ventures  in conjunction with other investors. Such investment would either be made directly by the Company or via special purpose vehicles.

 

The  Directors  will  consider  the  following  key  factors  whilst  assessing  the  acquisition  of  or investment in any property:

 

marketability, price, financing structure, legal and ownership status;

 

location,  access  to  infrastructure  including  major  roads  and  public  transport,  a  high current occupancy rate and established tenants of good financial and credit standing;

 

the quality of the property and the specification of the facilities within it; and

 

opportunities  to enhance the property in order to increase returns the possibility of improving  the  gross  rental  area  and  efficiency  of  use  and  potential  rental  income increases through space rationalisation and building facilities upgrades.


 

 

Directors

 

The  Board  comprises  two  executive  Directors  and  one  independent  non-executive  Director whose details are as follows:

 

Jen-Ching Chen, aged 59, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

 

Mr.  Chen  graduated  from  the  National  Cheng  Kung  University  (Taiwan)  with  a  degree  in accounting and statistics in 1971. Mr. Chen has devoted his entire career to the construction and property  sector  within  the  Prince  Housing  Group.                                                                                 He  has  graduated  through  the  finance departments of various group subsidiaries and is currently general manager of Prince Housing. He has a range of experience in monitoring the operation and financial control of the Prince Housing Group and has also assisted its board in corporate finance issues, strategic planning and business development.

 

 

Lawrence Man Kwan Ng, aged 38, Executive Director

 

He graduated from Hong Kong Technical Institute in 1995. He began his career in the banking industry in Hong Kong and spent fourteen years in private banking and bank treasury department advisory roles with international clients throughout Asia. He then moved to Singapore and worked with Hong Leong Bank and DBS Bank in Singapore as assistant vice president before returning to Hong Kong to work in the private banking division of Credit Industriel et Commercial (CIC) as a vice president.  He is currently a director of Prince Asset in Hong Kong.

 

David Thomas, aged 53, Independent Non-Executive Director

 

David Thomas is resident in the UK and is an English qualified solicitor. He is a non-executive director of several companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market in London, all of which have businesses in China. He practised law in London for more than 20 years, specialising in corporate finance, before a period with Beeson Gregory (now Evolution Group plc), a London investment bank and stockbroker, where he was an executive director and general counsel until

2002.

 

Reasons for Admission

 

The Company will apply its funds to identify and carry out due diligence on potential acquisitions and investments and to provide working capital for the Companys initial operations in line with its acquisition and investment strategy.

 

The Directors believe that the benefits of the Admission include:

 

the ability to enter into negotiations with vendors of businesses or companies to whom the issue of publicly traded shares as consideration is potentially more attractive than the issue of shares in an equivalent private company;

 

the ability to raise further funds in the future, either to enable a proposed acquisition to be completed and/or to raise additional working capital or development capital for the Company once an acquisition has been completed; and

 

the ability to attract and retain high quality directors and employees by offering them share options. The Directors consider that the ability to grant options over publicly traded shares is potentially more attractive to directors and employees than the grant of options over shares which are not publicly traded.

 

 

Zimmerman Adams International Limited (“ZAI”), which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial

Services Authority, is acting as nominated  adviser and broker to the Company and is not acting for any other person in


 

 

connection  with  this announcement  and  will not be responsible  to anyone  other  than the Company  for providing  the protections afforded to clients of ZAI or for providing advice in relation to this announcement.

 

 

This announcement  is drawn up in accordance  with the AIM Rules for Companies,  and has been issued in connection with the admission  of the Issued  Ordinary  Shares  of the Company  to trading  on AIM.   This announcement  does not contain an offer or constitute any part of an offer to the public within the meaning of section 85 of FSMA or otherwise.

 

The release, publication or distribution of this announcement outside the United Kingdom (“UK) may be restricted by law and therefore any persons outside the UK into whose possession  this announcement  comes should inform themselves about and observe any such restrictions.   Any failure to comply with such restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities  laws of any jurisdiction  outside of the UK.   The information  disclosed in this announcement  may not be the same as that which would have been disclosed if this announcement  had been prepared in accordance with the laws and regulations of any other jurisdiction other than the UK.