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 Company’s investment strategy. No changes may be made to the Company’s 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 Company’s 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
Company’s 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.